Release Date: Jan 1, 1992 Wide
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This two-disc set includes Chris Marker's tribute to Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin, Medvedkin's silent classic HAPPINESS (1934), and loads of extras.
Jan 1, 1992 Wide
Dec 2, 2008
Icarus Films
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It's one of the better documentaries.
A combination of Alexander Medvedkin's negelected satiric masterpiece and a loving tribute to the film-maker by his life-long friend Chris Marker, who is a last Bolshevik in his own right.
Chris Marker allows himself to get personal.
The catch is that the letters are addressing a dead man.
With all the time I have spent in darkened rooms watching the flickering images of cinema over the years, I am surprised whenever I come across a new element of movies I had never heard of before. One such example is an intriguing looking retrospective of Lithuanian cinema at the Museum of Modern Art. Another example
December 11, 2009Super Reviewer
A fascinating exploration of the history of the Soviet Union and early Soviet cinema through the figure of a repressed and forgotten filmmaker. Structured as a series of video letters addressed to his friend Alexander Medvedkin, a Soviet filmmaker who lived through the birth and chaos of the Soviet Union and whose
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