The Russian and East European Studies Center (REESC)

 

RUSSIAN FILM SERIES
Fall 2001

Wednesdays
6 :30 p.m.

115 Pacific Hall (13th & University)

Admission without charge
All films in Russian with English subtitles

Sept. 26: « Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears »

Three Soviet women seek their fortunes in Moscow c. 1957-77.

Oct. 3: " Moscow Parade "

Moral corruption among secret police officers in Stalin’s Russia.

Oct. 10: " Repentance "

Surrealistic evocation of Stalin and political terror in Soviet Georgia.

Oct. 17: " Boris Godunov "

Andrei Tarkovsky’s staging of Modest Musorgskii’s opera.

Oct. 24: « Aelita : Queen of Mars »

Science fiction depiction of a workers’ revolution on Mars.

«The Man with a Movie Camera »

Dziga Vertov’s classic realization of his « Kino-Eye » theory of cinema.

Oct. 31: " Solaris "

Andrei Tarkovsky’s version of Stanislaw Lem’s science fiction novel.

Nov. 7: " Stalker "

Andrei Tarkovsky’s adaptation of the Strugatsky Brothers’s science fiction parable.

Nov. 14: " Scarecrow "

Soviet Lord of the Flies set among schoolchildren in provincial river town.

Nov. 28: " Taxi Blues "

The adventures of a jazz saxophonist in Moscow.

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Past film series

 

2001 Spring Term: Russian Movies

    Mondays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm: Pacific Hall

April 07: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. (Docum. Film, in English)

April 09: The Fate of a Man (Based on M. Sholokhov’s story)

April 16: East-West (On the fate of Russian refugees after WWII)

April 23: Doctor Zhivago (Based on B. Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago; entirely in English)

April 30: Doctor Zhivago (Based on B. Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago; entirely in English)

May 07: One Word of Truth (Docum. Film based on A. Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Lecture; in English

May 10: Farewell to Matyora (Based on V. Rasputin’s novel Farewell to Matyora)

May 21: 1. Evgeny Evtushenko; 2. Joseph Brodsky; 3. Voice from Russia: The World of Vysotsky.   (Fragments from 3 documentary films)

May 30: Little Vera (About a 17 year old girl and her dramatic relationship with her husband and father).

June 04: Luna Park (About love-hatred relationships between an 18 year old son and his father)

In Russian with English subtitles; some films are in English

2001 Winter Term: RUSSIAN FILM SERIES

Wednesdays
6 :30 p.m.
115 Pacific Hall (13th & University)
Admission without charge
PUBLIC INVITED
All films in Russian with English subtitles

Jan. 10: Brother » Aleksei Barabanov’s tale of an avenger in Russia today.
Jan. 17: Prisoner of the Mountains. Tolstoy’s military tale set in contemporary Chechnya.
Jan. 24: Eugene Onegin. Bolshoi production of Chaikovsky’s opera.
Jan. 31: Anna Karenina. Dramatization of Tolstoy’s novel of desire and retribution.
Feb. 7:  The Second Circle. Aleksandr Sokurov’s study of family relationships and mortality.
Feb. 14: Lev Tolstoy. Re-creation of the last days of Tolstoy’s life.
Feb. 21: Twenty-Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky. His creative life and passions.
Feb. 28: Kolyma, Part 1
Mar. 7 : « Kolyma, » Part 2. Prize-winning documentary on Soviet forced abor camps.
Mar. 14 : Taxi Blues. The adventures of a jazz saxophonist in Moscow.