Sobytie (The Event) – Tallinn 19 Docs
Sergei Loznitsa investigates the events that took place in Leningrad, after a failed coup d’état and marked Soviet Union's end, by creating a grainy prequel of his previous doc, Maidan.
TagSoviet Union
Herz Frank on documentarists
Stachka (Strike, 1925)
The debut feature film by Sergei Eisenstein and the first archetypical example of pure communist propaganda.
Pisma Myortvogo Cheloveka (Letters from a Dead Man, 1986)
Konstantin Lopushansky re-creates the post-apocalyptic terror of a nuclear disaster on Chernobyl's aftermath as a Stalker's flip-side.
Gorod Zero (Zero City, 1988)
Kafkaesque absurdity meets Soviet reality during the years of the extremely bureaucratic Perestroika in this deadpan comedy by Karen Shakhnazarov.
Monanieba (Μετάνοια, 1984)
Η εμβληματική αλληγορική ταινία των τελευταίων ετών της ΕΣΣΔ με την επίδρασή της να είναι τόσο ισχυρή που επίσπευσε την πτώση της.
Monanieba (Repentance, 1984)
Tengiz Abuladze by presenting a grotesque realism with a touch of subcutaneous self-sarcasm managed to bury all the fears that had survived for so many years in the USSR.
Magdanas Lurja (O Γάιδαρος της Magdana, 1955)
Η πρώτη ταινία των Tengiz Abuladze και Rezo Chkheidze είναι ένα αγροτικό δράμα εποχής τοποθετημένο στην Γεωργία του 19ου αιώνα.
Magdanas Lurja (Magdana’s Donkey, 1955)
The debut film by Tengiz Abuladze and Rezo Chkheidze is a rural period neorealistic drama set in 19th century Georgia.
Vadim Yusov (1929 – 2013)
Vadim Yusov was one of the most acclaimed cinematographers of the USSR. His famously collaborations with Andrei Tarkovsky gave him a special status.
