///The Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks Battleship Potemkin///
Hmm... These films are great, no doubt. But they are silent ones, with subtitles in old fashion. Is it enough for the learning of Russian language?
///The Barber of Siberia///
As for me, I'm not sure that film is successful choice. I'd like to recommend the others films by director Nikita Mikhalkov. For example, his "Slave of Love" (Раба любви). There are the plot of the Civil War time, the love-story with movie star Olga Voznesenskaya (her prototype is Vera Holodnaya), the intrigue with contra-intelligence, old Odessa and many other interesting things. Very piercing film!
However, if I was asked what the Russian movie do you recommend first for a foreign viewer, I'd recommend "Formula of Love" (Формула любви) by Mark Zakharov. It's very witty film, a comedy and melodrama at the same time. In ending of 18 century, the famous Count Cagliostro has arrived in Russia. Of course, he arranges the seances of Magic... Some day one young landowner asks him to transform the stone statue of female into real alive girl.
Here are you may to read of the film and see the screencaps: http://russart.com/?mid=108
Excellent and witty replies! The screenplay is written by famous playwright Grigory Gorin. The replies came off in people's quotes. If you'd to find an analogy of that film among Western movie, I'd say that "Formula of Love" like a bit Terry Gilliam's films + Stopard's plays.
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Date: 2007-10-03 03:36 pm (UTC)Battleship Potemkin///
Hmm... These films are great, no doubt. But they are silent ones, with subtitles in old fashion. Is it enough for the learning of Russian language?
///The Barber of Siberia///
As for me, I'm not sure that film is successful choice. I'd like to recommend the others films by director Nikita Mikhalkov. For example, his "Slave of Love" (Раба любви). There are the plot of the Civil War time, the love-story with movie star Olga Voznesenskaya (her prototype is Vera Holodnaya), the intrigue with contra-intelligence, old Odessa and many other interesting things. Very piercing film!
However, if I was asked what the Russian movie do you recommend first for a foreign viewer, I'd recommend "Formula of Love" (Формула любви) by Mark Zakharov. It's very witty film, a comedy and melodrama at the same time. In ending of 18 century, the famous Count Cagliostro has arrived in Russia. Of course, he arranges the seances of Magic... Some day one young landowner asks him to transform the stone statue of female into real alive girl.
Here are you may to read of the film and see the screencaps:
http://russart.com/?mid=108
Excellent and witty replies! The screenplay is written by famous playwright Grigory Gorin. The replies came off in people's quotes.
If you'd to find an analogy of that film among Western movie, I'd say that "Formula of Love" like a bit Terry Gilliam's films + Stopard's plays.