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Sunday Feature: Movie Nights in Moscow

15/11/2009

Movie Nights in Moscow

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Movie Nights in Moscow

Rana Mitter travels to Moscow to explore the new Russia through its cinema.

Rana Mitter travels to Moscow to meet the heirs of Eisenstein and Tarkovsky, and explores the new Russia through its cinema.

In the 1990s much of Russia fell apart, including its film industry. Stray dogs ran through abandoned studio lots, cinemas fell into disrepair and the few films produced glorified gangsters. A decade later and new multiplexes, vampire blockbusters and international acclaim have brought Russian cinema back from the brink. 

Oscar-winner Karen Shakhnazarov and young directors Vasily Sigarev and Alexey Popogrebsky are among those Rana meets in the cinemas and cafes of Moscow. On screen are unhappy families, snow-bound landscapes, seedy coastal resorts, Neo-Nazis, Soviet-era teddy-boys and a little girl who thinks she's a wolf cub. 

At the historic Mosfilm studios, and visiting film screenings and festivals, Rana asks how Russia is changing, how the past is being re-packaged and what Russian politicians, producers and punters would most like to see on a night out at the movies. 

Producer: Julia Johnson.

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