Cinema and Context. From Gorbachev to Putin. Volume 2: 1989–1991
29.99 €
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Cinema and Context. From Gorbachev to Putin. Volume 2: 1989–1991
29.99 €
The second volume tells about the films and events of 1989-1991, the last three years of the Soviet Union: the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, the emergence of the groups Lyube, Na-Na and Kolibri, Tyagunov’s Noga and Todorovsky’s Interdevochka, the death of the Komsomolets submarine and Abdrashitov’s Armavir, Sakharov’s speech at the First Congress of People’s Deputies and Solovyov’s House under the Starry Sky, the miners’ strikes in Kuzbass and Donbass, the return of Rostropovich and Vishnevskaya, Muratova’s Asthenic Syndrome and Balabanov’s Happy Days, The Night of the Sapper Shovels in Tbilisi, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sokurov’s The Second Circle, the rise of the cooperative movement and the premiere of Field of Miracles, Kovalov’s Scorpion Gardens, Dostal’s Cloud-Paradise and Comrade Chkalov’s Passage through The North Pole by Pezhemsky, the murder of Men, the death of Dyagileva, the arrest of Chikatilo, It by Ovcharov, Dukhov Den by Selyanov and Satan by Aristov, the appearance of Barbie and Lego, the opening of McDonald's in Moscow and the "tobacco riot" in Leningrad, You Can't Live Like This by Govorukhin, Karaul by Rogozhkin and Sunset by Zeldovich, the success of Soviet cinema in Cannes, Freeze - Die - Rise! Kanevsky, "Mother" by Panfilov and "Taxi Blues" by Lungin, the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Gorbachev, interethnic conflicts in the Union republics, the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the "parade of sovereignties", "The Tsaricide" by Shakhnazarov and "The Myth of Leonid" by Dolinin, the arrival of Yeltsin, the signing of the Belovezh Accords and, finally, the collapse of the USSR.
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