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Soviet arthouse cinema?

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The name of this instance, lemmy.film reminds me of Lenfilm, the famous Soviet production company. Anyone want to share their favorite Soviet movies (not just from Lenfilm)?

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Haha, fair.

I’m familiar with Tarkovsky, but not the others. Battleship Potemkin rings a bell. I watched zerograd the other day. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I had more context into the everyday Soviet life that it was commentating on.

I’ve also heard about Man with a movie camera. Might check that out at some point.

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I saw Man with a Movie Camera when TCM showed it a few months ago. Very interesting considering how he would lug a large wind-up camera around and film everything that he found interesting then use creative ways to edit it all together. To me, it didn’t look like a propaganda film at all, altho perhaps to those who lived in the USSR during that time may have seen more in it than modern Western people do today.

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