Fyodor Khitruk (1917-2012)
Post by Anna Fomicheva To celebrate the career and artistic output of the recently deceased Fydor Khitruk, one of the …
Category Archives: Spotlight
Andrei Konchalovsky Oxford Retrospective
Post by Anna Fomicheva Andrei Konchalovsky, whose extraordinary film career spans five decades, is one of the most prominent figures in …
The Commissar
Post by Caroline de Boos Aleksandr Askoldov’s The Commissar (“Комиссар”) was part of the ‘new wave’ cinema that emerged from Kruschev’s …
The Garage, Part II: The Film
Post by Anna Fomicheva I left off The Garage, Part I on the turning of the tide – by which …
The Garage, Part I: The Director
Post by Anna Fomicheva “I sold my Motherland for that car!” is one of the most famous lines in Soviet …
By the Lake
Post by Anna Fomicheva The 1969 film By the Lake (“У озера”) was directed by Sergey Gerasimov, one of the …
