Posted on October 25, 2018
Protazanov, together with Bauer the leading director of the early Russian cinema, did not shrink from controversy in either his highly successful pre- or post- 1917 careers. The Departure Read More
Posted on October 25, 2018
Traditional accounts of Soviet cinema have always stressed its difference from the the Tsarist period, implying that this earlier phase was actively hostile to social change. But The Revolutionary, Read More
Posted on October 25, 2018
Excerpts from Russian fiction, theatre and biography augment historical background to create a portrait of Russian social and literary development in the 19th and 20th centuries. This discussion is Read More
Posted on October 25, 2018
Farewell chronicles a 90-year old man’s emigration to Israel from his Soviet Bessarabian town. The film visualizes a particular moment in Soviet and immediate post-Soviet history when Jews are Read More
Posted on October 25, 2018
Mosen Millan (Antonio Ferrandis), a Roman Catholic priest in a small Spanish village, is preparing to lead a service celebrating the life of Paco (Antonio Banderas), an outspoken young Read More
Posted on October 25, 2018
Homeless adolescent Pixote (Fernando Ramos Da Silva) finds himself thrown into a juvenile prison in a roundup of São Paulo’s street children. The prison is a nightmarish world where Read More
Posted on October 25, 2018
Áurea arrives at a town in the dunes of State of Maranhão, Brazil, in 1910, having for female company only her mother Maria. She is pregnant and wants a Read More
Posted on October 25, 2018
In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel Stern and his wife Miriam leaves Belo Horizonte in a hurry and scared with their ten years old son Mauro in their Read More
Posted on October 23, 2018
This film traces the turbulent life of one of the greatest writers of the 19th century, Leo Tolstoy. We follow his life from childhood through his stormy marriage and Read More
Posted on October 23, 2018
Combing through the eyewitness testimony of men who “ran” the Soviet state during Stalin’s reign of terror, Semyon Aranovich charts their diabolical power games with often astonishing revelations about Read More
