#Eastern Europe cinema

[gregor-samsung]

Ilegitim [Illegitimate] (Adrian Sitaru, 2016)

[honeygleam]

trzecia część nocy (1971) dir. andrzej żuławski

[springsteens]

I have only one expectation of the 2023 Napoleon movie. Please, include Polish characters

[nadjaerna]

Anca Szönyi in the film "Ciuleandra" (1985)

[chalkskyline]

KINO Relax KINO, Warsaw, Poland, June 2023

[hyperdemona]

Just finished this movie. I'm not a movie-buff and this is only like, the second non-English language European movie I'm watching and honestly? It's intriguing but meh. There's a girl-pigeon here called Helga who escaped a seller's cage and meets Mališa and we're treated to the bird version of a very generic she-was-a-girl he-was-a-boy story. Idk if it even passes the Bechdel test because it's very difficult to tell the sex of all the pigeons pecking around. Towards the climax Helga becomes a pivotal character but apart from that she's basically just there to further the male pigeon's experience. Granted, it portrays a major historical event in a novel way that manages to contribute to our understanding of it but they could have easily done it without the formulaic Hollywood portrayal of gender involving BIRDS 🙄. Ehhh might be worth watching for the aerial cinematography at least.

[empirearchives]

The Ashes (1965), dir. Andrzej Wajda

Set in Europe during the Napoleonic Wars, the film revolves around the story of Poland as the country fights on Napoleon's side in the hopes of achieving Poland’s revival.

Based on the novel by Stefan Żeromski, it is one of the highest grossing Polish films of all time.

[rochelleitsme]

Lilya-4-ever (2002)

[king-of-the-road]

Nostalgia (1983). Cinematography by Giuseppe Lanci. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.

[gregor-samsung]

Nu astepta prea mult de la sfârsitul lumii [Do not expect too much from the end of the world] (Radu Jude, 2023)

[erras-catgirl]

Golem (1980) - Dir. Piotr Szulkin

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Larisa Shepitko

Larisa Shepitko was born in 1938 in what is now Bakhmut, Ukraine. Though this director is largely unknown today, she was an iconic figure of 60s and 70s Soviet film. Shepitko was 22 years old and still a student when she directed her first feature film, Heat. Her work was at times controversial, and her short film Beginning of an Unknown Era was censored for its unflattering depiction of the Bolsheviks and not screened for twenty years. Shepitko's film The Ascent, regarded as her masterpiece, told the story of two partisans in Belarus during the Nazi occupation. The Ascent won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival.

Larisa Shepikto died in 1979 at the age of 41.

[honeygleam]

the aesthetic of: the girl (1968) dir. márta mészáros

[iwannapushthebutton]

A nagy generáció (1986)

dir.: András Ferenc

dop.: Ragályi Elemér

[euro222]

[springsteens]

the banshees of Inisherin vibes