Day Watch(2006) Mikhail Gluzskiy Balakirev Kidnapping, Caucasian Style(1967) Oleg Tabakov Yeguzhinskiy War and Peace(1965) Lyudmila Chursina Tsarina Zhuravushka(1969) Andrey Fayt Abbat Battleship Potemkin(1925) Vladimir Menshov Officer
Think Russian film and you tend to think highbrow, of grim realism or of the surreal and challenging. You picture the maggots in the sailors’ rations or the frenetic montage of crowds under gunfire in Sergei Eisenstein’sBattleship Potemkin(1925); you grapple with the mind-bending metaphysics ...