Soviet and Russian auteur cinema

After the years of montage and official realism, a few film-makers obtained, at the cost of censorship and years of waiting, the right to film otherwise. Tarkovsky follows an icon painter across medieval Russia and holds shots until time itself becomes palpable. Paradjanov built living tableaux of ethnographic beauty and paid for his insubordination with years in the camps. Klimov filmed a war seen by a boy of thirteen who ages before our eyes, Kalatozov invented a camera that flies above crowds.

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• CinemaThe Cranes Are FlyingЛетят журавлиMikhail Kalatozov · 1957A young woman of Moscow waits for a fiancé gone to the front, in a film that shows war without heroism and a heroine whom it does not judge.Cinema
• CinemaShadows of Forgotten AncestorsТіні забутих предківSergei Parajanov · 1965A film from 1965 shot among the Hutsuls of the Carpathians after a story by Kotsiubynsky, which proceeds by tableaux, colours and songs rather than by plot.Cinema
• CinemaAndrei RublevАндрей РублёвAndrei Tarkovsky · 1966A film completed in 1966 about the life of a fifteenth-century monk and painter, in a violent and devout Russia.Cinema
• CinemaMy Friend Ivan LapshinМой друг Иван ЛапшинAleksei German · 1982The chronicle of a policeman in charge of murder cases and of his friends in pre-war Russia, seen by a child who has become an adult.Cinema
• CinemaCome and SeeИди и смотриElem Klimov · 1985A war film from 1985 about a Belarusian teenager who joins the partisans during the German occupation.Cinema