Kinoeye: New perspectives on European film

Vol 4
Issue 4
13 Sept
2004

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Beyond Pax Sovietica
 Essays on film from the USSR's last days and its geo-political aftermath.

Aleksei Balabanov's Reka (The River, 2002)RUSSIA
Postcolonialism or not?
Aleksei Balabanov's
Reka (The River, 2002)

Balabanov's most recent hits have led to him being branded a nationalist. But with Reka, as Lars Kristensen explains, he seeks to give a voice to the indigenous people of the remote Russian region of Yakutia.

From the archive


Elem KlimovRUSSIA
He came, he saw...
An overview of Elem Klimov's career

Working first in comedy and then tragedy, Klimov was always in trouble with the regime for his films—so much so, his fellow directors trusted him to restructure the industry when the USSR's demise seemed imminent. Josephine Woll charts the director's journey from film-maker to administrator.

RUSSIA
Aleksei GermanA stubborn quest for historical truth
Aleksei German interviewed

Although active in the film industry for over 40 years, German has shot just six features. His slender output, though, is matched by an obsessive interest in finding the soul in the eras he portrays, and Moi drug Ivan Lapshin was once voted the best Soviet film of all time. Kinoeye presents a classic interview by Ronald Holloway, conducted with the controversial director in 1988.


Kristijonas Vildzhiunas's Nuomos sutartis (The Lease, 2002)LITHUANIA
The will to survive
Lithuanian film surveyed
at the Karlovy Vary film festival

Lithuanian film was forged between the conflicting forces of Soviet centralism and national identity. George Clark examines how the country has produced a cinematic tradition that captures the tensions of modern society.

Olga Stolpovskaia and Dmitry Troitsky's Ia liubliu tebia (You I Love, 2004)RUSSIA
The boy from out there
Olga Stolpovskaia and Dmitry Troitsky's Ia liubliu tebia
(You I Love, 2004)

Ia liubliu tebia tries to be modern and breezily open about homosexuality. But, as Andrew James Horton discovers, its attitude to its Kalmyk hero is more stuffily conservative.

From the archive

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RUSSIAN & SOVIET FILM IN KINOEYE

Brat
Aleksei Balabanov

Brat 2
Aleksei Balabanov

Chapayev
Georgi & Sergei Vasiliev

Chekhovskie motivy
Kira Muratova

Elegiia dorogi
Aleksandr Sokurov

Kukushka
Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Mesto na zemlie
Artur Aristakisian

Mne dvadtsat' let
Marlen Khutsiev

Molokh
Aleksandr Sokurov

Okraina
Peter Lutsik

Prikhodi na menia posmotret'
Oleg Yankovsky

Pro urodov i liudei
Aleksei Balabanov

Russkii kovcheg
Aleksandr Sokurov

Sestry
Sergei Bodrov Jr

Samostoia-
tel'naia zhizn'

Vitaly Kanevsky

Shchastlive dni
Aleksei Balabanov

Telets
Aleksandr Sokurov

Tini zabutykh predkiv
Sergei Paradzhanov