A student film she completed with her husband Aleksandr Muratov, whom she would divorce shortly after.
The film U KRUTOGO JARA / ON THE STEEP CLIFF (1962) tells the story of a peasant who tames wild nature in the form of wolves. Civilization was viewed as an instrument for humanizing nature, as a way of placing nature in the service of human progress. At the beginning of the 19...
Leningrad Studio of Documentary Films offered Sokurov the order for a film about Leningrad Figure Skating School in the period when he had no work. The result of his work on this film in no ways could be considered apotheosis of sport and sport victories. His undivided attention to the skaters' training, their daily routine, their hard, exhausting work, their injuries and failu...
Abbasov, one of the founders of Uzbek national cinematograph, brings out several issues and concerns, typical for the films of Soviet era – the effects of World War II on family life, life in Soviet orphanages and the ‘internationalism’ of Soviet life. Shot in 1963, it shows how children of different nationalities learn to live together as one family as it also brings out ‘Uzbe...
Graciozo - 3 Short Films From Georgia (1988)
Description:
Three short films:
"Tedo" - about the passion leads to what old fans.
"Graciozo" - and...football maestro.
"The suffering of the old G. D." - That is, when the time does not bring bakery bread...Films made with a soft Georgian humor.
Director: L. Miminoshvili
Starring: Guram Pirtskhalava, Carlo Sakandelidze, Guram Lordki...
Early in the summer of 1977 a musical fiction film called "The Wonderstory" was filmed in Tartu. Despite all frames being documentary, "A Dream" does not neccessarily showcase documentary. It's not a reportage of the filmmaking, rather a vision, an echo that has vanished, but has still existed.