SOVIET SCI-FI • NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE

Sponsored by the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies and
the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

• SLAVIC FILM SERIES  •  SPRING 2013 •

• SOVIET SCI-FI •

•  NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE•

EVERY WEDNESDAY @ 7pm

EAST PYNE 010

(PRINCETON)

ORGANIZED BY

THE GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE SLAVIC DEPARTMENT

  

February 13th

 Iakov Protazanov's Aelita

(1924)

"ANTA... ODELI... UTA -- What do they mean? You will find out on 30 September at the Ars Cinema." This was how Pravda advertised the premier of Iakov Protozanov's Aelita in 1924. One of the highest budgeted pictures of its time, the film tells an interplanetary love story against the political backdrop of the NEP-era Soviet Union and a concurrent proletarian uprising... on Mars! Famous for its elaborate costumes and set pieces, designed by the Constructivist artist Aleksandra Ekster, the film has been visually compared to such German expressionist classics as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) and is loosely based upon Aleksei Tolstoi's 1922 novel of the same name.

ALL FILMS ARE SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH

UPCOMING FILMS:

February 20th - Amphibian Man (1962, dir. Vladimir Chebotaryov and Gennadii Kazanskii)

FORTHCOMING FILMS:

February 13 – Iakov Protazanov, Aelita, (1924)

February 20 – Vladimir Chebotaryov and Gennadii Kazanskii, Amphibian Man, (1962)

February 27 – Aleksandr Gintsburg, The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin, (1965)

March 6 – Andrei Tarkovskii, Solaris, (1973)

March 13 – Leonid Gaidai, Ivan Vasilievich Changes Professions, (1973)

March 27 – Andrei Tarkovskii, Stalker (Part I), (1979)

April 3 – Andrei Tarkovskii, Stalker (Part II), (1979)

April 10 – Evgenii Iufit, short films, (1984 – 89)

April 17 – Vladimir Bortko, Heart of a Dog, (1988)

April 24 – Aleksandr Sokurov, Days of Eclipse, (1988)

May 1 – Aleksei Fedorchenko, First on the Moon (2005)

For more information contact: dhock@princeton.edu