This screening is part of Primi al Cinema, a new Casa Italiana series dedicated to debut films, American and New York premieres and other cinematographic novelties from and about Italy. Assunta Spina (1915) (Silent, Italy, 71 min.) Directed by Francesca Bertini, Gustavo Serena. Based on the novel by Salvatore di Giacomo. Starring Francesca Bertini and Gustavo Serena With live musical accompaniment. Presenting the…
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Biography, Drama, History, 110 min In Ukrainian with English subtitles. Q&A with the film director Olena Demyanenko to follow. Synopsis: 1917, Crimea. A blind woman Fanny Kaplan (Kateryna Molchanova) is pardoned after serving ten years for terrorism at a hard labour camp and goes to a rest home in Yevpatoria. There, Fanny meets a doctor Dmitriy Ilyich Ulyanov (Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi).…
Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University for a screening of the film Music of Survival: The Story of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, followed by a discussion with director Orest Sushko. The story of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus is one of courage and true grit – a vivid chronicle that celebrates the human spirit. This is the triumphant story of…
On February 24th, please join us for “To Dziga Vertov, Artist of the Revolution” featuring John MacKay of Yale University. The event is part of the Occasional series, sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Dziga Vertov unquestionably saw his own approach to cinema—very roughly, non-fictional experimental filmmaking—as a revolutionary response to the October Revolution. How were his films…