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25-08-2015, 09:18

FEATURE FILMS

Ballad of a Soldier. Directed by Grigory Chukhray, 1958. B&W, 89 min. Russian with English subtitles. Connoisseur Video Collection. The adventures of a young soldier, who, briefly furloughed as a reward for bravery, is on his way home from the front to visit his mother.

The Cranes Are Flying. Directed by Mikhail Kolotozov, 1957. B&W, 94 min. Russian with English subtitles. Criterion Collection. A young couple in love are separated when he has to go to war.

East/West. Directed by Regis Wargnier, 2000. Color, 115 minutes. In Russian and French with English or French subtitles. Rated PG; Oscar nominee. Columbia TriStar Home Video. A young couple and their son are among the thousands of Russian emigre families who shortly after the Second World War were invited to return to the USSR to help rebuild. Those who returned were, at best, condemned to a miserable existence with little hope of escape. New York Times critic A. O. Scott commented that the film "uses the resources of melodrama to shed light on forgotten history."

Freeze, Die, Come to Life. Directed by Vitaly Kanevski, 1989. B&W, 105 min. Russian dialogue, English subtitles. Fox Lorber Home Video. The story of two children growing up in a grubby post-World War II mining community/gulag zone, in the Soviet Far East. Based on the director's own boyhood experiences.

The Inner Circle. Directed by Andrey Konchalovsky, 1991. Color, 134 min. Rated PG-13. In English. The terror of the Stalin years revealed through the eyes of Stalin's film projectionist.

Little Vera. Directed by Vasily Pichul, 1988. Color, 110 min. Russian with English subtitles. Lumivision/Water Bearer Films. Winner, Best Film and Best Actress, Chicago Film Festival. Depicts life and boredom in a drab industrial town; the first Soviet film with an explicitly sexual episode.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Directed by Casper Wrede, 1971. Color, 105 min. In English. Sony Video Software. A masterful dramatization of Solzhenitsyn's classic novel of a prisoner in one of Stalin's slave labor camps.