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3 days ago · For cinema, 1986 is the most important year, where Elem Klimov (begrudgingly) became the head of Filmmaker’s Union, replacing the conservative order at its center (led by Sergei Bondarchuk) with ...
1 day ago · In addition, the release of Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace and the financial failure of the Russian director’s Waterloo had put Kubrick’s financiers off his Napoleon project, though much of the research he had put in would later be used for Barry Lyndon. Kubrick also once spoke of an important film about Napoleon, the 1927 eponymous ...
5 days ago · The three-part, almost seven-hour-long movie was as impressive as its literary basis. It turned out to be an epic movie with a great cast, which won an Oscar and a Golden Globe as the best foreign-language film. Director Sergei Bondarchuk himself played the role of Pierre Bezukhov. Watch the movie here! 7. ‘Beware of the Car’ (1966)
1 day ago · Waterloo (1970) is a historical war epic directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. The film depicts the famous Battle of Waterloo , a decisive engagement that took place in 1815 and marked the end of ...
2 days ago · Specifically, Kubrick has a Jewish woman take revenge for war-time atrocities. Discussing revenge in relation to the Holocaust has until recently been as impious as representing the Holocaust itself. Jewish revenge was unfashionable in Holocaust films of all kinds when Kubrick was working on Aryan Papers in the early 1990s.
3 days ago · The film includes some 15,000 Soviet foot soldiers and 2,000 cavalrymen as extras—it was said that, during its making, director Sergei Bondarchuk was in command of the seventh largest army in the world.
2 days ago · Some impressive literary adaptations were produced during the 1960s (Grigory Kozintsev’s Hamlet, 1964; Sergey Bondarchuk’s Voyna i mir [War and Peace], 1965–67), but the most important phenomenon of the decade was the graduation of a whole new generation of Soviet directors from the Vsesoyuzny Gosudarstvenny Institut Kinematografii (VGIK ...
