A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast with Ally Pitts
TV & Film:Film Reviews
Happy New Year, druzya! For our first film pick of 2018, we're watching historical drama Tsar from 2009, directed by Pavel Lungin and starring Pyotr Mamonov and Oleg Yankovskiy.
To discuss the film, Ally is joined by co-host of High & Low: A Kurosawa Podcast and Russian history super-fan Spencer Seams.
This episode contains moderate SPOILERs from 19 minutes in until the end.
It also includes (at least) one significant factual error about Russian history by Ally.
For. Shame. No actual prizes for spotting it(/them), but kudos if you do.
If you'd like to get in touch and tell us what you thought of the film and/or the podcast episode, here are some options:
Twitter: @RussophilesU
Email: russophilesunite@gmail.com
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Outro music: Grubiy Zakat by Zvuki Mu (fronted by Pyotr Mamonov).
Assa (Sergei Solovyov; 1987)
Brother (Alexei Balabanov; 1997)
Aelita, Queen of Mars (Yakov Protazanov; 1924)
Nicholas & Alexandra (Franklin J. Schaffner; 1971)
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Aleksei German Sr; 1985)
The Sun (Alexander Sokurov; 2005)
The Barber of Siberia (Nikita Mikhalkov; 1998)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky; 1966)
Window to Paris (Yuri Mamin; 1993)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Igor Maslennikov; 1981)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg; 2007)
Through the Thorns to the Stars AKA To the Stars by Hard Ways (Richard Viktorov; 1980)
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci; 2017)
Loveless (Andrei Zvyagintsev; 2017)
Stalingrad (Fyodor Bondarchuk; 2013)
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd; 2016)
The Irony of Fate (Eldar Ryazanov; 1975) Special Festive Episode!!!
Moscow does not Believe in Tears (Vladimir Menshov; 1980)
[Pilot Episode] Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky; 1979)
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