A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast with Ally Pitts
TV & Film:Film Reviews
Michele Berdy, Moscow Times columnist, translator, and The Word's Worth podcast host, joins Ally to discuss this Brezhnev-era rom-com starring Alisa Freyndlikh and Andrei Myagkov.
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Expect SPOILERS from about 42 minutes in until the end.
Office Romance also stars Oleg Basilashvili, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, and Liya Akhedzhakova.
Listen to Michele Berdy's The Word's Worth at: http://wordsworth.themoscowtimes.com/
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Sunflower (Vittorio De Sica; 1970)
How I Ended This Summer (Aleksei Popogrebsky; 2010)
Little Vera (Vasily Pichul; 1988)
Come and See (Elem Klimov; 1985)
Onegin (Martha Fiennes; 1999)
Attraction (Fyodor Bondarchuk; 2017)
Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov; 1960)
Welcome, Or No Trespassing (Elem Klimov, 1964)
The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov; 1957)
The Diamond Arm (Leonid Gaidai; 1969)
War and Peace (King Vidor; 1956)
Prisoner of the Caucasus AKA Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (Leonid Gaidai; 1966)
Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky; 1962)
Yolki AKA Six Degrees of Celebration (Timur Bekmambetov et al.; 2010)
Mermaid (Anna Melikyan; 2007)
Ivan the Terrible: Part I (Sergei Eisenstein; 1944)
Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison; 1971)
The White Sun of the Desert (Vladimir Motyl; 1970)
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession (Leonid Gaidai; 1973)
Assa (Sergei Solovyov; 1987)
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