FAV170 Cinema of USSR 1945-1991

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jaromír Blažejovský, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 15:00–20:45 C34, Thu 9:10–11:35 C34
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course offers an introduction to cinema of the former U.S.S.R. from the end of the Great Patriotic War to the end of the U.S.S. R. The attention will be focused on changes of political context, key periods, typical genres and auteur personalities, including the production of republic studies.

Main objectives can be summarized as follows:
to understand relationships between ideology, the party leadership and the film industry in U.S.S.R.
to experience Soviet films as a spectator
to know works of the execellent auteurs of Soviet era
to discover ideological stereotypes as well as subversive undertones in selected films.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A brief overview of Soviet cinema till 1945
  • 3. Late Stalinism (1945-1953)
  • 4. The thaw (1953-1964): Grigori Chukhray, Mikhail Kalatozov, Mikhail Romm, Marlen Khutsyev
  • 5. Poetic cinema: Sergei Paradzhanov, Yuri Ilyenko, Tengiz Abuladze, Emil Loteanu
  • 6. Epic movies: Sergei Bondrachuk, Yuri Ozerov
  • 7. The classics: Sergei Gerasimov, Grigori Kozintsev, Yuli Raizman
  • 8. 1967, the anniversary and banned films
  • 9. Official productions, Leniniana
  • 10. Vasily Shukshin
  • 11. Lenfilm Studio: Gleb Panfilov, Ilya Averbakh, Dinara Asanova
  • 12. Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Konchalovsky, Nikita Mikhalkov
  • 13. Larisa Shepitko and Elem Klimov
  • 14. Caucasian cinemas
  • 15. Baltic cinema
  • 16. The cinema of Central Asia
  • 17. Genre movies, comedies and action films
  • 18. Perestroika
Literature
  • HORTON, Andrew and Michael BRASHINSKY. The zero hour : glasnost and Soviet cinema in transition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992, xiv, 287. ISBN 0691019207. info
  • BERNARD, Jan. Národní kinematografie Sovětského svazu. Praha: Československý filmový ústav, 1989, 332 s. URL info
  • 4 filmové povídky. Edited by Galina Kopaněvová - Vasilij Makarovič Šukšin - Aleksandr Aleksand. 1. vyd. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1982, 247 s. URL info
  • FOMIN, Valerij Ivanovič. Symfonie filmového plátna : Emil Loťanu, Jurij Iljenko, Otar Ioseliani, Bulat Mansurov, Tolomus Okejev, Gleb Panfilov, Vasilij Šukšin. 1. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1979, 323 s. URL info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion, film screenings.
Assessment methods
The colloquium: an annotated filmography of 24 watched films for a group discussion.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010.
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