USSR Movies, Art, Culture

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I summon the vampires! I summon the werewolves!… I summon Viy!

Вий / VIY (1967) dir. Konstantin Yershov and Georgi Kropachyov

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Moldova Monastery. Byzantine art of the 15th and 16th centuries

[mytholegy]

Russia’s village libraries. Photos by Ksenia Inverse

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Moscow's neon signs (1964)

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Sofiya Perovskaya (1967, Lev Arnshtam)

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Vsevolod Pudovkin, {1953} Возвращение Василия Бортникова (The Return of Vasili Bortnikov)

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🎄soviet cinema - new year edition🎄

Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром! /The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1975) dir. Eldar Ryazanov

Операция "Ы" и другие приключения Шурика /Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965) dir. Leonid Gaidai

Джентельмены удачи /Gentlemen of Fortune (1971) dir. Alexandr Sery

Морозко /Morozko (1964) dir. Alexander Rowe

Карнавальная ночь /Carnival Night (1956) dir. Eldar Ryazanov

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Tamara Nosova in Илья Муромец | Ilya Muromets (1956)

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Solyaris (1972) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky.

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Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)

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“See, I love you. But love is a feeling we can experience but never explain. One can explain the concept. You love that which you can lose: yourself, a woman, a homeland. Until today, love was simply unattainable to mankind, to the Earth. There are so few of us. A few billion altogether. A handful. Maybe we’re here in order to experience people as a reason for love.” Solaris (1972) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

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Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) 

“See, I love you. But love is a feeling we can experience but never explain. One can explain the concept. You love that which you can lose: Yourself, a woman, a homeland. Until today, love was simply unattainable to mankind, to the earth. Maybe we are here to experience people as a reason for love.”

[theromanticrationalist]

“How dare I then go to sleep?” - “If you would have the rest of this house, you must not trouble yourself about waking. You must go to sleep heartily, altogether and outright.” | Lilith by George McDonald

“That is the problem. Mankind has lost the ability to sleep.” | Solaris (1972).

Dune (2021) Dir Denis Villeneuve. Solaris (1972) Dir Andrei Tarkovsky

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Solaris (1972) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

-You’re not a woman and you’re not a human being. Understand that, if you’re capable of understanding anything. There is no Hari. She’s dead. You’re just a reproduction, a mechanical reproduction. A copy. A matrix. 

-Yes. Maybe. But I - I am becoming a human being. I can feel just as deeply as you. Believe me.

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Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972)

“Remember Tolstoy? His suffering over the impossibility of loving mankind as a whole? How much time has passed since then? Somehow I can’t figure it out. Help me.“