How about Happiness by Medvedkin? (Chris Marker's tribute to Medvedkin - The Last Bolshevik is also great)
Greg gboozell at juno.com
Ismail Lagardien wrote:
> Ahhh, of all the detritus from my days as a film reviewer (yes, this i did, too, when i was a political reporter) ... i have two posters framed and on my kitchen walls - here in columbia, SC.
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> The one poster is of The Moderns (Alan Rudolph) and Repentance (Tengiz Abuladze)... Which was made in teh Soviet Union in about 1986-87???
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> I should say that I enjoy both mainly for the poster designs. Neither film is among my top 20 all time favourites
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> See poster of Repentance
> http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/192018~Repentance-Posters.jpg
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> See review of The Moderns
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> http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19880506/REVIEWS/805060303/1023
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> Those that ARE in my list of favourites include
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> Andre Rublev, Nostalghia, Ivan, Potemkin, Battle for Algiers
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> Other Soviet era greats were Alexandr Nevsky, When Father Went Away on Business,
> Testimony.
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> About Little Vera, it was presented, in South Africa at the time as an allegory for the 'decay' of socialism.
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