[EN] RusClub is a platform for Russian cinema. Alexandra Dementieva selects Russian movies and guides you through the history of Russian cinema.

The movie that will be shown is :
I am Twenty (Mne dvadtsat let) 1965, 173 min
Director: Marlen Khutsiev
Writers: Marlen Khutsiev, Gennady Shpalikov
Stars: Valentin Popov, Nikolai Gubenko, Stanislav Lyubshin, Marianna Vertinskaya

“Together with its loose sequel July Rain, I Am Twenty is “the cinematic manifesto of an entire generation” (Peter Rollberg). Khutsiev incurred Khrushchev’s very public wrath by evoking the spiritual, intellectual, and sexual restlessness of young Muscovites during the Thaw. He dared to repudiate the tired aesthetics and orthodoxies of Socialist Realism by instead adopting New Wave techniques of handheld on-location camerawork, breezily elliptical storytelling, and an interior monologue of metaphysical and erotic angst. Surrogates for the filmmaker himself, Khutsiev’s youthful protagonists find little solace in communing, in Hamlet-like fashion, with the ghosts of fathers who had been killed in the war. They seek pleasure and purpose in Moscow’s counterculture of jazz, folk music, and poetry.”

[FR] RusClub est une plateforme pour le cinéma russe. Alexandra Dementieva nous fait part de sa sélection de films russes et nous guide à travers l’histoire du cinéma russe.