1. Utopian Visions: Week 18
Perestroika Film

2. Outline
Contours
(2) Ex. of dir. Kira Muratova
(3) Ex. of dir. Sergei Paradzhanov
(4) Film Repentance
(5) Parallel film

3. (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).

4. (1) Perestroika Film: Contours Cont‘d
New films, e.g. Little Vera (1988) or The Needle, dir. Radhid Nugmanov (1988)chernukha
(24:00, 30:00, 47:00)

5. The Needle (1988)

6. (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)

7. (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

8. (2) Ex. Dir. Kira Muratova often amateur actors modelled on
Brechtian epic theater
The Asthenic Syndrome
(1990)

9. (3) Ex. Dir. Sergei Paradzhanov (1924-1990)
Georgian-born Armenian director. Most films prohibited. Imprisoned on grounds of homosexuality, protests by Truffaut, Fellini et al. Fame only during perestroika and posthumously.

10. (3) Ex. Dir. Sergei Paradzhanov (1924-1990)
The Colour of Pomegranates (1968) about Armenian 18th-century poet’s life. Paradzhanov’s cinema influenced by…

11. (3) Ex. Dir. Paradzhanov Cont‘d
Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky ( ), defected from USSR in 1982, 7 films: 1962: Ivan’s Childhood : Andrei Rublev 1972: Solaris (based on Stanislav Lem sci-fi novel) : The Mirror : Stalker : Nostalgia : The Sacrifice

12. (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

13. (4) Repentance, dir. Tengiz Abuladze (1984/1987)
Filmed for tv with protection of Shevardnadze (later Gorbachev’s foreign minister) in Georgia, then shelved
Abuladze ( ): ‘phantasmagoria’ in the style of Georgian folklore

14. (4) Repentance Plot 2 framing stories and 1 flashback Anachronisms
Phantasy/dream
Music
Literary quotations
[Source: Josephine Woll, Denise Youngblood, Repentance (London, 2001).]

15. (5) Parallel Film
(25 mins.)