James Lloydovich Patterson, the son of an African American father and a Russian mother who became a celebrated child actor of the Stalinist era for his role in a 1930s propaganda film mythologizing ...

“Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few today – but whose work was once seen by over 40 million people in the former ...

The Cold War is over. There is an entire generation of adults who never lived in a world with a Berlin Wall, or a Soviet Union. Of course, for many years, films related to the tenuous dynamic between ...

In Soviet author Mikhail Bulgakov's classic novel The Master And Margarita, first published in 1966, the devil -- named Woland -- tells writer Ivan Bezdomny that "manuscripts don't burn." The thread ...

LevelK has boarded “The Invisible Fight,” Estonian director Rainer Sarnet’s kung fu comedy set in an Orthodox monastery in the former Soviet Union. The film world premieres Aug. 11 in the main ...

When I was an undergrad in film school, one of the pillar courses was a two-semester film history class that would act as a broad survey to give us a foundation as aspiring filmmakers and workers.

Soviet cinema has long been an integral part of New Year's holidays: these films are loved and watched on a festive night, New Year's holidays, or in the background while cooking olivier. Watching ...

Thikon Khrennikov is now 91 years old, but as the first Secretary of the Union Composers - he was the bureaucrat who made life miserable for both Shostakovich and Prokofiev during the most terrifying ...

Many of us are still being kept inside by COVID, so here’s a new round of streaming recommendations to keep you occupied. There’s no theme this time around; just a selection of great films from a wide ...