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Wings Five Evenings Flying Asleep and Awake Beware of the Car Walking the Streets of Moscow 2014 AMHERST COLLEGE RUSSIAN DEPARTMENT GOOD OLD SOVIET CLASSICS WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. STIRN AUDITORIUM, AMHERST COLLEGE, 7 PM. SPRING Flying Asleep and Five evenings Th 1979 Awake Wings 4/17 1982 1966 Nikita Mikhalkov Fr Beware of the Car Fr 4/25 3/28 Roman Balayan Walking the Streets of Fr 1966 Larisa Shepitko The tangible world of an old 2/21 Eldar Ryazanov communal apartment in Moscow It is a tragicomedy about a man Moscow 1963 It is a fascinating and human Fr of the 1950’s is recreated who is in no way aggressive or 3/7 portrayal of a once-famous Georgiy Daneliya A comedy film noir about Soviet Robin Hood onscreen with an incredible embittered, but nothing makes fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist In this charming lyrical comedy, which also - a modest insurance agent who in his spare accuracy, capturing the flair of the him happy: his loving wife, his named Nadezhda Petrovna. appears as an unofficial tourist guide of the time - is engaged in theft of private cars of time. Alexander and Tamara, who young mistress, friends, or job. Now a 41-year-old provincial Russian capital, a young writer from Siberia major criminals. He sells the stolen cars and loved each other before the war He just cannot find a place where schoolmistress, she has so comes to Moscow and makes new friends. anonymously transfers the money to the separated them, meet here after he "belongs", and often acts like a internalized the military ideas Russian youngsters of the sixties emerge as the accounts of various orphanages. What will his many years. Through five evenings child. Meanwhile, he is now 40 of service and obedience that true heroes of this film as one day in their life is policeman friend do when he finds out? of dinners and arguments, two years old, and by the standards of she cannot adjust to life in meticulously portrayed in order to reveal that lonely people now try to convince society, should have already peacetime... Soviet youth too are interested in flirting, each other that both are doing accomplished "something" in life. learning English, and buying LP records. just fine....
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