Alla Demidova

  • Igor Talankin – Dnevnye zvyozdy AKA The Stars of the Day (1968)

    1961-1970DramaIgor TalankinUSSR

    Dnevnye Zvyozdy (“The Stars of the Day”, 1966) was based on poetess Olga Berggolts’s autobiography. She was a difficult figure for the authorities: though she stayed in Leningrad during the siege making inspirational radio broadcasts, her more personal work was suppressed, even after her death. Suspended strangely between interior monologue, poetic recitation, exterior action and memory, it won an award at the Venice Film Festival. It also introduced Talankin to the actress Alla Demidova, who appeared in most of his subsequent films.Read More »

  • Kira Muratova – Nastroyshchik AKA The Tuner (2004)

    2001-2010ArthouseCrimeKira MuratovaUkraine

    PLOT: A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.Read More »

  • Kira Muratova – Nastroyshchik AKA The Tuner (2004)

    2001-2010ArthouseKira MuratovaRussia

    Quote:
    At the heart of Kira Muratova’s newest film, The Tuner (Nastroishchik, 2004), is her characteristic and enduring love of predation—predation for its own sake. Of course, any talk of “the heart of Muratova’s work” is a judgment of anatomy rather than sentiment, as any admirer would attest. With The Tuner, she has produced an extraordinary new film that offers a complex assessment of the human subject, civilization, and the creative act.Read More »

  • Larisa Shepitko – Ty i ya AKA You and Me (1971)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaLarisa ShepitkoUSSR

    Synopsis:
    Peter, a former medical scientist, suddenly quits his cushy job as a doctor at the Russian Embassy in Sweden and returns to Moscow. 3 years ago his team stood on the threshold of a vital break-through in neurosurgery, but the experimental work was cut short when Peter left for Stockholm. Peter tries to pick up the threads of his old life, fails and runs still further away, to a small town in Northern Russia where he takes a job as a district doctor. But the past would not relinquish its hold on him even there.Read More »

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