Overview of articles
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Pomekha
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Anthologie van het necrorealisme
u-Together with Daddy, Father Frost is Dead, the Rotterdam Film Festival is screening five short films by Yufit under the collective title Anthology of Necro-Realism.…Published on: -
Proshchanie
In this film version of one of Valentin Rasputin’s stories, the local grandeur is pathetic +!+ in the non-pejorative meaning of the word. The film…Published on: -
Schastlivije dny
In this serene and playful film, the Russian metropolis of St. Petersburg is shown in all its visual splendour. A man (a wonderfully understated role…Published on: -
A Small Giant of a Big Sex
Marat, the main character of this comedy, works as a photographer on a beach of a small seaside resort. But it is the least important…Published on: -
Prorva
Unusual glimpse from the inside of the Stalinist Soviet Union; the KGB elite of KGB led the life of Hollywood film stars. But under the…Published on: -
Reflection in the Mirror
When a successful actor (played by Victor Proskurin, ‘the husband of’) stops working, he loses his own identity. The characters he played and the maskPublished on: -
Tolko smert prikhodit objazatelno
Idiosyncratic and beautifully-photographed film from present-day Russia portraying a small community; a society which looks like ours, despite differences in language, culture and religion. The…Published on: -
Papa, vadertje vorst is dood
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Elegia iz rossii (Etyudy dla sna)
This most recent film by Sokurov and his team is based on a continuous and fluent structure. The film has been made with the aid…Published on: