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Film Nights for the Victory Day
These days we would like to draw your attention to the Victory Day of the 9th, May and devote most of our activities to this celebration!
This week has been declared a film week where we are eager to show you both documentary and fiction films about this legendary epoch.
*** 1 *** FILM NIGHT – Destiny of a man (Судьба человека) – 3 MAY
Movie Based on Story by Mikhail Sholokov
Russian filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk is both director and star of this melancholy wartime fable. Bondarchuk portrays Andrey Sokolov, a World War II-era Soviet citizen who is captured by Nazis. He goes through hell, but is sustained by the possibility that someday he’ll be reunited with his loved ones. Upon his release, Sokolov discovers that his whole family has died during the war. Originally titled Sudba Cheloveka, Destiny of a Man represented Sergei Bondarchuk’s directorial debut. Its international release in 1961 (two years after it was made) was a genuine eye-opener to film-critic curmudgeons who believed that Russian filmmakers, while brilliant in assembling propaganda pieces, were lacking in humanity and emotionalism. An enormous worldwide success, Destiny of a Man fully proved that it was not true…
WHEN: 5PM, Wednesday, 3 MAY
WHERE: TV room, Darwin College
GENRE: a staging drama about the War
PRICES: CURS members free, £1 others
*** 2 *** FILM NIGHT – They Fought for Their Motherland (Они сражались за Родину) – 4MAY
It is a screen adaptation of Nobel Prize winning author Mikhail Sholokhov’s novel. This is a war film from a Russian point of view.
* Prize of the Union of the Anti-Fascist Fighters of Czechoslovakia at the 20th IFF in Karlovy Vary, 1976
* Award for Best Director to S. Bondarchuk and Award for Best Performance of 27 male roles of soldiers at the 14th IFF in Panama, 1976
* The Vassiliev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR to director S. Bondarchuk and cinematographer V. Yusov, 1977
* Leninist Komsomol Prize to composer V. Ovchinnikov, 1977
“…the film concentrates on the remnants of one shattered regiment and its individual soldiers’ thoughts and fears in the face of impending annihilation, not only of themselves but Mother Russia too.”
WHEN: 8.30PM, TUESDAY 4th May
WHERE: Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
GENRE: war drama
LANGUAGE: in Russian with English subtitles
PRICES: Trinitarians and CURS members free, Ј1 others
*** 3 *** FILM NIGHT – Ordinary Fascism (Обыкновенный фашизм) – 5 MAY
A fascinating documentary on Nazism by Soviet film maker Mikhail Romm. Made in 1961, it is remarkable both for its portrayal of that weird brand of fascism and for the way it does so.
This 1965 documentary by Mikhail Romm is an excellent example of the special position of film directors in the former Soviet Union, who didn’t have to succumb to the economic hardships typically imposed on art by Western market economies. However, the film implicitly reveals the political interventions under which all art suffered under the Soviet system.
WHEN: 8PM, Wednesday, 5 MAY
WHERE: TV room, Darwin College
GENRE: documentary
PRICES: CURS members free, £1 others
*** 4 *** FILM NIGHT – Ivan’s childhood (Иваново детство) – 6 MAY
Directed by Andrey Tarkovsky
The film is based on the 1957 short story Ivan (Russian: Иван) by Vladimir Bogomolov, with the screenplay written by Mikhail Papava and an uncredited Andrei Tarkovsky. The film tells the story of orphan boy Ivan and his experiences during World War II. Ivan’s Childhood was one of several Soviet films of the late 1950s, such as The Cranes Are Flying and Ballad of a Soldier, that looked at the human cost of war.
WHEN: 7PM, Thursday, 6th May
WHERE: TV Room, Darwin College
GENRE: war drama
PRICES: Trinitarians and CURS members free, £1 others
*** 5*** FILM NIGHT – Hurricanes over Russia – 7 MAY
Directed by Roy Perkins
Sixty two years ago the might of Hitler’s Army’s invaded Russia and took on the might of Stalin’s army. Within a matter of hours hundreds of Russian aircraft were destroyed on the ground, and the Wehrmacht were heading East in another phase of their Blitzkrieg. By the first of September, the front was 400 miles East, and the Wehrmacht were already at the doors of Leningrad.
WHEN: 8PM, Friday 7 MAY
WHERE: TV room, Darwin College
GENRE: documentary
PRICES: CURS members free, £1 others
*** 6*** FILM NIGHT – Could Stalin stop Hitler? (Мог бы Сталин остановить Гитлера?) – 8MAY
WHEN: 8PM, Thursday, 8th May
WHERE: TV Room, Darwin College
GENRE: documentary in Russian
PRICES: Trinitarians and CURS members free, £1 others
*** 7*** FILM NIGHT – Battle for Moscow (Битва за Москву) – 9MAY
Directed by Yuri Ozerov
A magnificent film about the War and its heroes. It is like the final accord for the Victory Day!
Join us and you will never forget it!
WHEN: 8PM, Friday 9 MAY
WHERE: TV room, Darwin College
GENRE: war drama (with English subtitles)
PRICES: CURS members free, £1 others
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