{"id":1631,"date":"2023-08-15T18:30:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/russianhistory\/?page_id=1631"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:36:18","slug":"cinema","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/russianhistory\/cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

Click on any one of the images below to access a slideshow containing descriptions of representative Soviet\/Russian films. Click a second time on the information icon \u24d8\u00a0 in the lower right-hand corner of any slide to pull up a description of the respective film along with a link enabling you to view it online w\/English subtitles.<\/p>\n

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Aelita, Queen of Mars<\/em>. Directed by Yakov Protazanov (1924) 111 min. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks<\/em>. Directed by Lev Kuleshov (1924) 78 min. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Battleship Potemkin<\/em>. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein (1925) 71 min. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Directed by Dziga Vertov (1929) 68 min. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Chapaev<\/em>. Directed by Sergei and Georgii Vasiliev (1934) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Alexander Nevsky<\/em>. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein (1934) 110 min. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Volga, Volga<\/em>. Directed by Grigorii Aleksandrov (1938) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Ivan the Terrible, pt. 1<\/em>. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein (1944) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Ivan the Terrible, pt. 2<\/em> Directed by Sergei Eisenstein (1948) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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The Cranes are Flying<\/em>. Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov (1957) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Ivan’s Childhood<\/em>. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1962) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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The Twelve Chairs<\/em>. Directed by Leonid Gaidai (1971) <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears<\/em>. Directed by Vladimir Menshov (1979) 150 min. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Jazzmen<\/em>. Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov (1983) 80 min. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Come and See<\/em>. Directed by Elim Klimov (1985) 142 min. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Repentance<\/em>. Directed by Tengiz Abuladze (1987) 153 min. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Heart of a Dog<\/em>. Directed by Vladimir Bortko (1988) 130 min. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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The Island<\/em>. Directed by Pavel Lungin (2005) 112 min. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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