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1. A Zvezda is Born

A Russian actor is getting major recognition in Hollywood. 

Tags: movies, awards, film
2. Foreign Heroes in Russian Cinema

Six films in Russian cinema with foreign characters as their heroes.

Tags: culture, movies, Culture Through Film, Film & TV
3. Biopics: Monarchs, Heroes, and Their Fans

Eleven recent biopics highlight fascinating histories of Russians of ages past.

Tags: biography, russian revolution, Ivan the Terrible, movies, history, film
4. Mikhail Romm

Mikhail Romm is remembered by everyone who ever worked with him with tenderness and affection. Yet it is hard not to wonder how differently his life and work might have turned out had it not been for the exigencies of Russian and Soviet history.

Tags: movies, film
5. Movies, Modernism, and Moscow Archaeology

News items on an Oscar contender, a respected doctor, renovation of Tula, and a Kremlin dig.

Tags: kremlin, tula, archaeology, movies, film
6. Shrek Lives in Kirov Oblast

Russia has everything, including Shrek's house.

Tags: media, environment, rural, kirov, movies
7. The Hunt for Movie Russian

"Kakov nipudt pakaru!" The classic 1990 movie Hunt for Red October had a $30 million budget. Apparently none of that went towards Russian language coaches.

Tags: grammar, russian language, movies, cold war, film, humor
8. September/October 2020

The Mari People * Life in Isolation * Russia's Discovery of Antarctica * Raspberry Picking * Semyonovsky Revolt * Battle on the Ugra * Sergei Bondarchuk * Table Russian * Bird Language * Apple Fritters * Chicks the TV Series * Kamchatka and Belarus

Tags: religion, dissent, village life, exploration, movies
9. What Will Russians Want Next on TV?

“I think that, first of all, viewers will want to watch something easy. Comedy, melodramas about love, and, of course, blockbusters, but they won’t start to be released right away, because the pandemic should not only end for us, but all over the world.”

– Kirill Razlogov, president of the Guild of Film Critics and Film Critics of the Russian Federation

Tags: movies, coronavirus
10. Visions of War

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II this May, we look back at how Soviet and Russian cinema has depicted the war.

Tags: cinema, movies, wwii

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