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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
This chronicle of a Siberian village schoolteacher begins and ends with a dance. Varenka is herself young at the film's first ball in Tsarist St. Petersburg, poised to begin her adult life. In 1941 there is another dance, of her own students, as she watches, both moved by the present and haunted by the past, which by this time has included the political imprisonment of her lover, their wedding, and his death in 1914. "I'll teach you to dream, " said...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov's most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what role a creative person played in society.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
By the Bluest of Seas is a 1935 Soviet film directed by Boris Barnet. Two workers are shipwrecked on an enchanted island in the Caspian Sea, rescued by the benign sirens of the beach kolkhoz known as Beacon of Communism. The men compete for the affections of the same vivacious brigade leader. "It's an amazing film. A salty, windy, sunny film. You don't seem to watch it or listen to it, you're simply absorbing it, like the blue sea air, gulp after...