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Russian Idea, The (1995 Video)

Director

Sergei Selyanov

Producer

Tatiana Yakovleva

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 53 min., 1999 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Director Sergei Selyanov links Russia’s cinema to the national character, with its desire for revolution and search for Utopia. He mines a rich source of material in an attempt to prove his thesis, using...

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Immaterial Bodies: A Cultural Analysis of Early Russian Films (2001)

Subject

Media studies; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, CD-ROM (PC Version, 129 minutes), £27.99

A CD-ROM exploring Russian cinema before 1919 in the context of life and culture in pre-revolutionary Russia. There are over 100 film clips (55 mins), 74 minutes of analysis and commentary by film scholar...

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Andrei Rublev (1969 Video)

aka: Andrei Rublyov

Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Producer

Tamara Ogorodnikova

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Portrays the social and political upheavals of 15th century Russia through the life and experiences of icon painter Andrei Rublev. Shelved by the Soviet authorities and not seen until 1971.

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Secret Life of Sergei Eisenstein, The (1987)

Director

Gian Carlo Bertelli

Subject

Film studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60 minutes), $7.49

The life and work of Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), the Russian film director. Includes rare material from archives around the world and previously unknown drawings and sketches from the Eisenstein Museum in...

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Ivan the Terrible (2 Parts) (1945 Film, Video)

aka: Ivan Groznyj

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

1 (1944): Story of Tsar Ivan IV - Ivan the Terrible. Begins with his crowning as Tsar of Russia, follows his struggle to consolidate the Russian Empire, freeing it from Eastern domination, through his...

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Battleship Potemkin (1925 Video)

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

History; Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale (video - retail), Videocassette. VHS. sd (music only). b&w. 70 min.

Feature film reconstructing the events which took place in the town of Odessa during the Social Democratic movement of 1905-1907.

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Strike (1924)

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

Film studies; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £24.99 (MM) £19.99 (E)

Sergei Eisenstein’s first film, portraying a 1912 strike of factory workers which is brutally put down by the authorities. The version released in 2012 by Moviemail in the Classic Russian Cinema series is...

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Happiness (1934)

Director

Alexander Medvedkin

Subject

Film studies; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 66 minutes), 15.00 Euros

The film that Medvedkin himself considered his greatest achievement, HAPPINESS is a cinematic folktale in which a poor, idle peasant is sent out by his wife to find happiness. Unfortunately his quest his...

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Last Bolshevik, The (1994)

aka: Tombeau d’Alexandre, Le

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 120 minutes), £12.99

Based on the life and work of the Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), THE LAST BOLSHEVIK is a tribute from one filmmaker to another in the form of six video "letters" sent to him...

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October (1928)

aka: Sergei Eisenstein’s October

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

History; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes), £24.99

Eisenstein’s feature film was reissued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Revolution which it reconstructs. Original negatives from the world’s film archives were collected to present a print which...

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