PARALLEL CINEMA OF THE LATE SOVIET UNION

PARALLEL CINEMA OF THE LATE SOVIET UNION

Ed. Note: There is an undercurrent of Russian film that is totally unfamiliar to most viewers, awaiting rediscovery. Eugene Vasiliev describes the “cine-samizdat” movement of Parallel Cinema, which subverted the official Soviet Union aesthetic of Socialist Realism. Although these films were made in the underground and still have not been officially released (at least, not in the Western world), copies of several of them can be found through a Yo…