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A Cruel Romance: A Wonderful Reflection of Russian Ability to Love

A Cruel Romance: A Wonderful Reflection of Russian Ability to Love

Quite often, filmmakers create their films on the basis of classical works. Thus, Eldar Ryazanov’s film A Cruel Romance was created on a plot of the drama, A.N. Ostrovsky’s Dowerless Girl. Perhaps, in this work created a century ago, Ryazanov saw things that actual till nowadays such as passions and human relations, which seemed to [...]

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A Gem of Soviet Cinema: A Cruel Romance

A Gem of Soviet Cinema: A Cruel Romance

A Cruel Romance is a tragedy based on the classic play The Dowerless Girl by the nineteenth-century playwright Alexander Ostrovsky. A Cruel Romance was the biggest Soviet hit of 1984. The plot of the film is relevant to now because, as we know, the world, where money rules, where everything is bought and sold, including [...]

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For No Particular Reason

For No Particular Reason

All the things we observe in the childhood influence our behavior very much. The majority of children watch cartoons that form their behavior or attitude to the life and people as well. No doubt, the Soviet cartoon makers perfectly knew that cartoons affect children’s mind. That’s why all the cartoons created  by them are imbued [...]

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Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka

Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka

Wonderful screening of “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”, the beloved work of Nikolai Gogol, was posed by Alexander Rou, the Soviet master of fairy tale films. Amazing and, surprisingly, accurately chosen actors play a fairy tale that has happened on a farm near Dikanka in “Christmas Eve”. Thisfilm is an extraordinary spectacle due to [...]

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