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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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)
Tsar (Pavel Lungin; 2009)
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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