Tag: Russian film

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[If this post is all mooshed together in one paragraph, blame the Ricochet post editor (again), and not me.] Bill Clinton’s maneuver to have a private meeting with Loretta Lynch on the tarmac in Phoenix has got me to thinking about Tengiz Abuladze’s 1984 film Repentance.  (Georgian: მონანიება, Russian: Покаяние) (It was produced in 1984, […]

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After last night’s YouTube I got the impression that Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria is one of the rehabilitation efforts by Putin’s entertainment industry. It’s a tough job, but if anyone can do it, Putin’s people can. The film I was watching could be titled (awkwardly) Beria’s loss and arrest. I see that it’s six years old […]

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I share some of the nostalgia that Russian people have for the old days of the Soviet Union. I don’t want communism back any more than I want fascist dictators like Putin to exist, but the 70s and 80s were the golden years of Russian film. I eagerly watch any of the recent films that […]

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When I write about recent Russian film, especially detective series, I often find myself saying something like, “It’s not worthy of the land of Dostoyevsky, but I watched/liked it anyway.”  Preview Open

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I’ve enjoyed this 4-part series from StarMedia so much that I got my wife to join me on a second watching. And after seeing Part 1 last night, she wanted me to tell how it turned out. I refused, saying she’d have to learn it the same way I did. Preview Open

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I finally finished this little 4-part docudrama last night. I don’t know the history of the Korean War in great detail, but I think I learned quite a bit from this. Preview Open

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