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Movies About the Russian Revolution

By moviejourneys On April 24, 2014 · Add Comment · In Early Europe, Russian Empire
The Battleship Potemkin; or Potemkin  (1925) – Eisenstein Following my previous blog post on Movies About the Russian Empire, it seems only right to return to the films of Sergei Eisenstein to set the scene for the Russian Revolution. Indeed, his widely-known masterpiece, Potemkin does exactly that. It tells of a 1905 event in Odessa, [...]
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Movies After the Russian Revolution

By moviejourneys On April 24, 2014 · Add Comment · In Early Europe, Russian Empire
This is the penultimate post in my movie capsule of the Russian Empire. Let me begin with two movies that make a bridge between the time before the Revolution of 1917 and the present. Anastasia  (1956) Ingrid Bergman plays a poor young woman who may or may not believe that she is actually the Grand [...]
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Russian Cultural Memory in the Movies

By moviejourneys On April 24, 2014 · Add Comment · In Early Europe, Russian Empire
There are two films in my archive that reflect the efforts of early Russian filmmakers to reject the aristocratic conventions of the past and invent new ways of viewing the demands of life in modern times. Despite populist sympathies, the two experimental films were not well received by the Soviet government, which saw them as [...]
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