A Russian & Soviet Movie Podcast with Ally Pitts
TV & Film:Film Reviews
Martin Kessler, filmmaker and host of Flixwise: Canada joins Ally Pitts to discuss this 1930s-set film that is part memoir, part crime drama.
CONTENT WARNING: the film depicts a suicide attempt.
SPOILERS from about 23 minutes in until the end.
Martin has also written a series of in-depth essays on Aleksei German Sr. and his films published by film site The Pink Smoke.
My Friend Ivan Lapshin stars Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, and Andrey Mironov.
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The show's intro music is Cold by Sasha Ilyukevich and the Highly Skilled Migrants.
You can find more of their music at: https://thehighlyskilledmigrants.bandcamp.com/ or on Spotify.
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Anna (Luc Besson; 2019)
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)
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