1928: Storm Over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin) John Mackay December 2017 100 Years of Soviet Cinema Fetishism and Revolution: Storm Over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1928) The Mezhrabpomfilm production Storm over Asia (1928; sound version made in 1949) – known as Potomok Chingis-Khana (The Heir to Genghis Khan)...
1997: Brother (Aleksei Balabanov) John Mackay December 2017 100 Years of Soviet Cinema Cinema as Salvage Operation: Brother (Aleksei Balabanov, 1997) One of the “accursed questions” of Russian cinema, at least from the early Soviet period, has been: how to do a lot with a little? Soviet cinema, ...
