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01.21.08

Russian movie categories
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As a public service, I should make a database that categorizes Russian movies in useful and important ways: Proto-bolshevik revolutionary -- In pre-revolutionary Russia, there is the odd character who tinkers with explosives, befriends a youngster, is arrested and beaten by the police, and perhaps has some noble words about truth for the youngster to remember as he is hauled away. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky Siberiade (One movie recently seen on RTR-Planeta that had three of them who conducted some caper on behalf of the motherland and were then hauled away to be executed by the ungrateful czarist government.) Andrei Rublev -- The setting ...
12.24.07

Detstvo Gorkova
Movies (0)
We finished watching The Childhood of Maxim Gorky tonight. This one will not get a second watching, at least not just now. For learning Russian, it wasn't the most useful to me. The characters didn't speak as distinctly as in some of the more modern movies -- or maybe it's the old sound recording technique and technology that muddied it up. It wasn't impossible to make words out, though, and I did catch some usages that were new to me. I have sometimes wondered how it is that Russia produces so many wonderful child actors. This film ...

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