July 30 - August 6, 2019
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF I AM CUBA
WINNER, PALME D’OR, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 1958
(1957) Tatyana Samoylova and Alexei Batalov gambol through the empty, silent Moscow streets at 4am on the whitest of white nights – June 22, 1941 (Russian equivalent of December 7 or 9/11) – and with war comes separation, death, rape, desertion, draft-dodging, black-marketeering, etc. – topics once taboo in the Stalin years. Kalatozov and cinematographer photographer Sergei Urusevsky (the same team would make I Am Cuba seven years later) use techniques also once taboo: a camera tour de force of helicopter and crane shots, giant crowd scenes, and endless, often hand-held shots (one begins on a bus, follows Samoylova down the street, up several flights, and into her apartment to find… ) First post-war Soviet film to find wide commercial success in the U.S. and top prize winner at Cannes. DCP restoration. Approx. 95 min.
A presentation by Mosfilm Cinema Concern. A digital restoration image by image of the picture and sound using a 2K scanner.
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