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30/4/2002

Screenings

Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh

Carnegie Museum of Art Department of Film and Video presents Imperial Fatigue-Post Soviet Cinema film series

Screenings

Wednesday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.
The Muslim

Thursday, May 2, 7:30 p.m.
Khrustalev, My Car!

Friday, May 3, 7:30 p.m.
Moscow

Saturday, May 4, 7:30 p.m.
Taxi Blues

Thursday, May 9, 7:30 p.m.
The Muslim

Friday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.
Khrustalev, My Car!

Saturday, May 11, 7:30 p.m.
Moscow

Sunday, May 12, 7:30 p.m.
Taxi Blues
Film Series

Imperial Fatigue-Post Soviet Cinema
May 1-May 12, 2002

The four films in this series engage a paramount aspect of recent Russian history: the belated transition from empire-first dynastic, then soviet-into nation state, at the very moment when the concept of "nation" is becoming more complicated and elusive worldwide. Each film, in its own way, reflects on the personal and cultural implications of this paradox. These films are presented in collaboration with the annual symposium on Russian film organized by Nancy Condee and Vladimir Padunov at the University of Pittsburgh.

The films are free to those registered for the symposium.

For symposium information, call 412.624.9714, e-mail padunov@pitt.edu, or visit http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu/.

The Muslim
Wednesday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 9, 7:30 p.m.
Following the war in Afghanistan, a Russian soldier, Nikolai Ivanov, returns to his native village, where he is regarded as a traitor. Nikolai's conversion to Islam marks him as an enemy and an outsider within the Russian community. Khotinenko intertwines issues of religion and national identity in his film and questions the very possibility of a coherent Russian national identity in the era after the Romanov and Soviet empires. Vladimir Padunov, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh, will introduce the film Wednesday night.
(Russia, 1995) 110 min.
Directed by Vladimir Khotinenko
In Russian with English subtitles

Khrustalev, My Car!
Thursday, May 2, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.
This film is set in Moscow in late February 1953, the month preceding Stalin's death, and its historical background is the so-called "Doctor's Plot," an anti-Semitic campaign triggered by Stalin's secret police. In an atmosphere pervaded by gloom and despondency, Aleksei German's 1998 film offers an unsettling commentary on the results of nightmarish rule by force-insanity. Mikhail Iampol'skii, Professor of Comparative Literature and Russian Studies at New York University, will introduce the film Thursday night.
(Russia, 1998) 142 min.
Directed by Aleksei German
In Russian with English subtitles

Moscow
Friday, May 3, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 11, 7:30 p.m.
As if in response to the three sisters of Chekov's play-who scream "To Moscow! To Moscow!"-scriptwriter Victor Sorokin and director Aleksandr Zel'dovich transport the women of this film into 21st-century post-Soviet Moscow. In a spirit similar to the 19th-century play, the film ruminates on the unbearable emptiness of contemporary Russian bourgeois life. Mark Lipovetsky, Professor of Russian Literature and Culture at the University of Colorado, will introduce the film Friday night.
(Russia, 2000) 132 min.
Directed by Aleksandr Zel'dovich
In Russian with English subtitles

Taxi Blues
Saturday, May 4, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 12, 7:30 p.m.
Taxi Blues is the story of a macho Moscow cabbie, Shlykov, who pursues an ambivalent friendship with Liosha, a self-destructive Jewish bohemian saxophonist. Director Pavel Lungin has called the film "a premonition of civil war" because of its depiction of perennial clashes within Soviet society, including resentments between Jews and Russians as well as conflicts such as those between the "intelligentsia" and the working class. Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Prigov, Russia's leading conceptual poet and performing artist, will introduce and discuss the film Saturday night.
(Russia, 1990) 110 min.
Directed by Pavel Lungin
In Russian with English subtitles

Admission
Admission to CMA Cinema is $6; $5 for students, senior citizens, and Carnegie members; and $2 for CinéClub members.

Support
General support for the exhibitions and programs at Carnegie Museum of Art is provided by grants from The Heinz Endowments and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Department of Film and Video programs are supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, and Dr. Lila Penchansky.

Carnegie Museum of Art
Located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh and founded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1895, Carnegie Museum of Art is nationally and internationally recognized for its distinguished collection of American and European works from the sixteenth century to the present. The Heinz Architectural Center, part of Carnegie Museum of Art, is dedicated to the collection, study, and exhibition of architectural drawings and models. For more information about Carnegie Museum of Art, call 412.622.3131

Image: The Muslim Russia, (1995) 110 min. Directed by Vladimir Khotinenko. In Russian with English subtitles

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