Melodia! Podcast Series

Hipsters (2008), directed by Valery Todorovsky remembers a largely forgotten 1950’s counterculture, that of ‘Stilyagis’, Western style hipsters. Todorovsky’s film cleverly subverts this narrative. Through the plot and use of Soviet music from v

Man from the Boulevard des Capucines with Hope Dickson Leach

Jan 31st, 2020 5m 53s

Released in 1987 and directed by Alla Surikova, one of a handful of female filmmakers who were working in cinema at the time, Man from the Boulevard des Capucines can be called a Red Western, in which a Soviet filmmaker borrows the myth of the

Carnival Night with Dr Maria Korolkova

Jan 31st, 2020 9m 52s

In Eldar Ryzanov’s first feature film, released in 1956, the youthful committee organising the New Year’s party contend with a newly appointed and very serious director of a House of Culture. With bureaucracy comedically utilised for ridicule;

Cheryomushki with Owen Hatherley

Jan 31st, 2020 10m 49s

Directed by Herbert Rappaport and based on Dmitri Shostakovich’s operetta Cheryomushki, is a satirical take on the now infamous housing projects built under Nikita Krushchev. Aesthetically, the film is shot in a bright colour scale, exemplifyin

Melodies Of Vera Quarter with Mako Abashidze

Jan 31st, 2020 8m 52s

Directed by Giorgi Shengelaya, this dynamic musical stars Sofiko Chiaureli, the much-loved Georgian actress, thought to be Sergei Parajanov’s muse. It details a young laundress’ determination to help two poor and talented girls attend ballet sc

We Are From Jazz with Peter Bradshaw

Jan 31st, 2020 8m 17s

We are from Jazz (1983) follows the story of a young musician, Konstantin, and his burning ambition to bring jazz to the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Expelled from the Conservatory for this heretical undertaking, he forms his own unlikely jazz ba

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