The perspective on the war from Soviet authorities during the Brezhnev era can be seen in Mosfilm's "Liberation" series. Mosfilm offers such movies as "The Fall of Berlin," made under Stalin and glorifying him. Naturally, many of the great Russian films take World War II as their subject matter. Nikolai Gogol's "Viy," "Taras Bulba" and Ivan Goncharov's 1859 novel, "Oblomov," have also been made into films, as have at least three of Feodor Dostoevsky's masterpieces: "Crime and Punishment," "The Idiot" (in 10 parts), and "The Brothers Karamazov"(in 8 parts).įrom Leo Tolstoy's works, Mosfilm has adapted "Anna Karenina" and "The Cossacks," although its "War and Peace," directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, contains no subtitles. At least three of Alexander Pushkin's works have served as a basis for films now available on YouTube: "Ruslan and Lyudmila," "The Tale of Tsar Saltan," and "Boris Godunov," the first two directed by Alexander Ptushko and the third by Sergei Bondarchuk. Many of the films uploaded are based on great Russian literary works. They include his wartime drama "Ivan's Childhood," "Andrei Rublev," about the life and times of the gifted Russian medieval icon painter, as well as his sci-fi classic "Solaris," "Mirror," which the New York Times called "a somber futuristic fantasy," "Nostalgia" and Tarkovsky’s final film, "Sacrifice," which has been compared to the work of Swedish master Ingmar Bergman. The most celebrated films of Andrei Tarkovsky are also readily available. The Irony of Fate:a great decade for film
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