A Nest of Gentry
Slave of Love
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A Nest of Gentry (Dvoryanskoe gnezdo)
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.
With Irina Kupchenko, Leonid Kulagin, Beata Tyszkiewicz.
USSR, 1969, 35mm, color, 111 min.
Russian with English subtitles.
Print source: Harvard Film Archive
A disenchanted landowner (Kulagin) tires of his adulterous wife (Tyskiewicz) and falls deeply in love with his neighbor's daughter (Kupchenko). Based on Turgenev's A Nest of Gentlefolk, the film marked the first in a series of literary adaptations by Konchalovsky after his more politically-minded work had been attacked by Russian censors. Though still a student in acting school, Konchalovsky's brother Nikita Mikhalkov also appears in the film.
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Slave of Love (Raba lyubvi)
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.
With Yelena Solovey, Rodion Nakhapetov, Aleksandr Kalyagin.
USSR, 1976, 35mm, color, 94 min.
Russian with English subtitles.
Print source: Harvard Film Archive
A Moscow film crew plans to shoot a silent drama in Odessa during the height of the Civil War. The cameraman (Nakhapetov) who has deep affection for the film's star (Solovey) secretly shoots the atrocities carried out by the White Guard for a documentary he is making, a film he hopes will change the star's view of the government. The screenplay for this powerful, reflexive drama was co-written by Mikhalkov's brother, Andrei Konchalovsky.
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Verboten! / Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
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Hearts of the World / True Heart Susie
Anna Christie / The Long Voyage Home
Suddenly Last Summer / The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Quiet Days in Clichy / Henry and June
The Freshman / The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The Sheep Has Five Legs / The Law is the Law
Hobson's Choice / Sidewalks of London
I Know Where I'm Going / Outcast of the Islands
An Inspector Calls / The Belles of St. Trinian's
Mother Joan of the Angels / Thérèse
Dawn of the Dead / Strange Behavior
