Utopian Visions: Week 18 Perestroika Film
Outline Contours (2) Ex. of dir. Kira Muratova (3) Ex. of dir. Sergei Paradzhanov (4) Film Repentance (5) Parallel film
(1) Perestroika Film: Contours Return of shelved films. At 1986 meeting of Union of Cinematographers ‘conflict commission’ founded that reviewed over 100 banned films, all of which were eventually released. E.g. Repentance (shortly released in 1984, then forbidden; relaunched in 1987).
(1) Perestroika Film: Contours Cont‘d New films, e.g. Little Vera (1988) or The Needle, dir. Radhid Nugmanov (1988)chernukha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kj8GI97zgs (24:00, 30:00, 47:00)
The Needle (1988)
(1) Perestroika Film: Contours Cont‘d ‘Expensive’ foreign films, e.g. King Kong Lives (1986), 53.6 mio tix sold. Also, video (VHS) revolution video salons (before perestroika: most foreign films from third-world countries, e.g. India)
(2) Ex. Dir. Kira Muratova Born 1934, finished VGIK in Moscow in 1959, then sent to film studio Odessa- Still lives in Odessa today. Several films shelved, fame not until perestroika. With Vysotski in Brief Encounters (1967) Today
(2) Ex. Dir. Kira Muratova often amateur actors modelled on Brechtian epic theater The Asthenic Syndrome (1990) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdjIGQaieRM
(3) Ex. Dir. Sergei Paradzhanov (1924-1990) Georgian-born Armenian director. Most films prohibited. Imprisoned 1973-77 on grounds of homosexuality, protests by Truffaut, Fellini et al. Fame only during perestroika and posthumously.
(3) Ex. Dir. Sergei Paradzhanov (1924-1990) The Colour of Pomegranates (1968) about Armenian 18th-century poet’s life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glsytnUdt-E Paradzhanov’s cinema influenced by…
(3) Ex. Dir. Paradzhanov Cont‘d Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-86), defected from USSR in 1982, 7 films: 1962: Ivan’s Childhood 1964-66: Andrei Rublev 1972: Solaris (based on Stanislav Lem sci-fi novel) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEOfJQX2qdQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcglyhUre4w 1974-75: The Mirror http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlRN1bvVd28 1979: Stalker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfowVslQBQk 1983: Nostalgia 1985-86: The Sacrifice
(4) Repentance, dir. Tengiz Abuladze (1984/1987) Studios across USSR: Armenfilm Azerbaijanfilm Belarusfilm Georgiafilm Gorky Film Studio Gruziya-film Kazahfilm Kyivnaukfilm Kirgizfilm Lenfilm Lithuanian Film Studio Moldova-Film Mosfilm Dovzhenko Film Studios Odessa Cinema Studio Pilot Rigas kinostudija Soyuzmultfilm Sverdlovsk Film Studio Tadjikfilm Tallinnfilm Turkmenfilm Uzbekfilm Yalta Film Studio
(4) Repentance, dir. Tengiz Abuladze (1984/1987) Filmed for tv with protection of Shevardnadze (later Gorbachev’s foreign minister) in Georgia, then shelved Abuladze (1924-94): ‘phantasmagoria’ in the style of Georgian folklore
(4) Repentance Plot 2 framing stories and 1 flashback Anachronisms Phantasy/dream Music Literary quotations [Source: Josephine Woll, Denise Youngblood, Repentance (London, 2001).]
(5) Parallel Film http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_938086&feature=iv&index=1&list=PLDbSvEZka6GGPGU1cpjG4iy9Mk3a9au-W&src_vid=DEmsbdTpo3w&v=eZxYAKSo5gw (25 mins.)