The 2000s: The True History of Russian Cinema
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The 2000s: The True History of Russian Cinema
14.99 €
Remember the time when people watched movies not because algorithms recommended them, but because they were on TV and you accidentally turned on the right channel?
When Piter FM was shown in theaters, and Gorod 312 sang "I'll Stay" so loud it gave you goosebumps. When "Night Watch" was discussed by the whole class, and even those who hadn't read Lukyanenko knew the phrase "Everyone, come out of the shadows." When "Cargo 200" wasn't just a film, but an endurance test, completed in the dark of a room on a laptop with friends.
This was the time of the first torrents and long downloads, when downloading a movie meant leaving your computer on all night. A time when people sought out films, found them, and fell in love with them against all odds.
This book is not a dry retelling of facts or another textbook on the history of cinema. This is a lively conversation about films that, twenty years later, suddenly took on a new meaning and garnered millions of views among Zoomers:
- About "Piter FM," which became an anthem for a generation searching for itself.
- About "The Mermaid" by Anna Melikyan, which was overlooked in 2007 and is now hailed as a manifesto of freedom.
- About "Hitler Kaput!" and other "shameful" films that we can finally watch without snobbery.
- And, of course, about Balabanov—a director who only becomes more terrifying and relatable with each passing year.
Film critic Maria Kuvshinina collected exclusive interviews with the creators, dug into archives, and spoke with those for whom these films were revelations in the 2020s. The result is not just a nostalgic album, but an honest conversation about how we have changed along with our cinema. And about why today we rewatch these particular films and find in them answers to questions that we are only just learning to ask.
When Piter FM was shown in theaters, and Gorod 312 sang "I'll Stay" so loud it gave you goosebumps. When "Night Watch" was discussed by the whole class, and even those who hadn't read Lukyanenko knew the phrase "Everyone, come out of the shadows." When "Cargo 200" wasn't just a film, but an endurance test, completed in the dark of a room on a laptop with friends.
This was the time of the first torrents and long downloads, when downloading a movie meant leaving your computer on all night. A time when people sought out films, found them, and fell in love with them against all odds.
This book is not a dry retelling of facts or another textbook on the history of cinema. This is a lively conversation about films that, twenty years later, suddenly took on a new meaning and garnered millions of views among Zoomers:
- About "Piter FM," which became an anthem for a generation searching for itself.
- About "The Mermaid" by Anna Melikyan, which was overlooked in 2007 and is now hailed as a manifesto of freedom.
- About "Hitler Kaput!" and other "shameful" films that we can finally watch without snobbery.
- And, of course, about Balabanov—a director who only becomes more terrifying and relatable with each passing year.
Film critic Maria Kuvshinina collected exclusive interviews with the creators, dug into archives, and spoke with those for whom these films were revelations in the 2020s. The result is not just a nostalgic album, but an honest conversation about how we have changed along with our cinema. And about why today we rewatch these particular films and find in them answers to questions that we are only just learning to ask.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Our Cinema. Books about Russian cinema from 1896 to the present day.