Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction by the Editor

Film of the Year
Rasskazy/Short Stories
Interview with Mikhail Segal

Festival Focus
Moscow International Film Festival

Directors
Iakov Protazanov
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Aleksandr (Oleksandr) Dovzhenko
Abram Room
Lev Kuleshov
Vasil’ev ‘Brothers’
Ivan Pyr’ev Grigorii Aleksandrov (Mormonenko)
Mikhail Kalatozov (Kalatozishvili)
Fedor Khitruk
Elem Klimov
Kira Muratova
Stanislav Govorukhin
Aleksei Iur’evich German
Sergei Solov’ev
Pavel Lungin
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Aleksei Balabanov

Adventure Film

Blockbusters

Science Fiction

Sequels & Remakes

Television Series

Cold War Spy Films

Chernukha

Animation D'Auteur

Documentary Film

Recommended Reading

Russian Cinema Online

Test Your Knowledge

About the Author

Birgit Beumers is professor of film studies at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Her publications include Directory of World Cinema: Russia, A History of Russian Cinema, and, with Mark Lipovetsky, Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama.

Reviews

'Peppered with high-quality film stills and questions to consider while viewing, 'Directory of World Cinema: Russia' encourages its reader to hunt out lesser-known films and to revisit his/her favourites.'
*Rosemari Baker: Modern Language Review*

'A provocative and illuminating volume. Even seasoned Russian film experts stand to learn something from this volume, whether because it invited them to reevaluate their basic historiographical assumptions or because it introduces them to a number of under-the-radar films.'
*Hannah Frank: Slavic and East European Journal*