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Dreaming of a Kingdom Not of This World: Film Dissent in the USSR and the Soviet Bloc |
| Section: THE ARTS / FILM |
| Author: Paul Coates |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,651 Words, 16,040 Characters |
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One of the most exciting phenomena in the cinema of the late seventies and early eighties was the emergence of richly varied opposition filmmakers in the Soviet bloc, particularly in Poland and Hungary. Wajda's Man of Marble, Zanussi's Camouflage, Pal Gabor's Angi Vera, and Karoly Makk's Another Way spearheaded a movement that radically revised state sponsored pieties concerning the postwar history of Eastern Europe, and--in Poland, at least--bridged that gulf between art cinema and the commercial industry, the intelligentsia and the mass audience, often encountered in Western cinema.
One may wonder about the state of these movements now that glasnost is being so acclaimed in the USSR. How has it affected the Polish and Hungarian cinemas, given the relative autonomy Eastern bloc coun...
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...ote that the religious idiom should be adopted in places well away from Moscow--in a major city in Georgia by Abuladze and in a minor one in Poland by Kieslowski--at a time when another religious revival (the Islamic one) is nibbling away at the Soviet underbelly. These films dream of a kingdom not of this world: a kingdom defined only by negating all claims that the world is as it should be.
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