Posted on October 26, 2018
A compilation of four early Russian films produced between 1908 and 1912 by Russian cinema’s leading producer Aleksandr Khanzhonkov, and pioneer director Vasilii Goncharov. In a Gypsy Camp (1908) Read More
Posted on October 26, 2018
A compilation of two early Russian films produced between 1910 and 1913. Many Pushkin adaptations appeared during the establishment of the Russian film industry which helped popularise the author. Read More
Posted on October 25, 2018
Films made by foreign companies, like Pathé’s A Fish Factory in Astrakhan, stimulated a demand for home-produced films which was finally answered by the enterprising Drankov. His Sten’ka Razin Read More
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
