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Posts Tagged ‘tv shot’

Gagarin’s Grandson – Van Gogh

By • May 23rd, 2009 • Category: Single Photo

What can I say, the choice of placing Genna with an artist as adopted parent immediately condemned my appreciation of the film as cliche. Why does Fedya have to be an artist? He could  be anything, truck driver, banker, anyone. By the law of averages he should be some type of engineer, but no. He [...]



Africans in Soviet and Russian Films

By • May 14th, 2009 • Category: Single Photo

I am going to begin looking at popular perceptions and ideas about Africa contained in Soviet-era and modern Russian films.  I will post TV screen photographs and my commentary on what I find important, or what it seems the filmmaker thought was important. This is image is from Gagarin’s Grandson. In addition I plan post [...]