The Russian House of Technology, Education and Development in association with the Labia proudly presents a

RUSSIAN FILM SEASON

of a selection of MOSFILM productions

Labia on Orange Fri 23 – Thurs 29 Oct 2015

Tel (021) 424 5927 www.thelabia.co.za

FILMS

AUTUMN MARATHON (Osenny Marafon) (1979, 94 MINS) TOWN OF ZERO (Zero City) (1988, 100 MINS) Oleg Bassilashvili, Natalya Gundareva, Marina Neyelova & others in Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov & others in a a tragi-comedy directed by Georgy Danelia. film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov. A mild-mannered English-language teacher of Leningrad has a A Soviet-style episode of The Twighlight Zone, this surreal film problem running between his wife & mistress, as well as coping with begins with the arrival of a Moscow engineer, Varakin, in the home his students & prying neighbours. This wry comedy from Georgian city of the air-conditioning firm with which he has business. satirist, Danelia, in an adept manner, combines humour with social Varakin arrives for his appointment & is greeted by a pretty comment on urban intellectual life. A nicely observed gallery of secretary sitting calmy, stark naked, behind her typewriter. He obsessive characters in a droll comedy set against the Leningrad learns that the chief engineer is no longer with the firm as he background. drowned eight months previously. But Varakin’s day rapidly gets worse. The director creates a vision of Soviet society as a kind of ON THE ROAD TO BERLIN (Doroga na Berlin) (2015, 82 MINS) Kafkaesque maze in which Varakin gets hopelessly lost. Winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Montreal World Film Festival, 2015 UNFINISHED PIECE FOR THE PLAYER PIANO Amir Abdykalov, Yuriy Borisov, Maksim Demchenko & others in a (Neokonchennaya Pyesa Diya) (1977, 103 MINS) war drama directed by Sergei Popov. Alexander Kalyagin, Elena Solovei, Eugenia Glushenko & others in It is the summer of 1942 & the bitter battle for Stalingrad is a film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. Music by Donizetti, Liszt & underway. A young lieutenant is given important instructions which Rachmaninov. Splendidly adapted from Anton Chekov’s first play he fails to deliver. A military tribunal sentences him to death. Before Platanov, this tragic farce tells of a school teacher married to an the sentence can be carried out he receives an assignment & the intellectual. At a country estate he meets an old girlfriend who is execution of his sentence is delayed. His assignment is successful & newly married. They attempt to recapture their past. The atmosphere he is awarded the highest honour. But the death sentence was never of that lazy summer’s day is beautifully captured by Pavel rescinded … Lebeshev’s cinematography.

MOSCOW DOES NOT BELIEVE IN TEARS (1980, 140 MINS) WHITE TIGER (Belyy tigr) (2012, 104 MINS) Best Foreign Film Oscar 1980! Selected for the Oscars This is a life story of three girlfriends from their youth to their Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko & others in a powerful & autumn years. Their dreams & wishes, love, disillusions. Different moving Karen Shakhnazarov action, adventure fantasy film. careers. And late love. Based on the novel by Ilya Boyashov with the music of Richard Directed by Vladimir Menshov, three young Russian girls share a Wagner & set in the early 1940s, a Red Army Sergeant becomes room in a Moscow workers’ dormitory during 1958, pursuing their obsessed with the destruction of a mysterious, ghostly-white tank, careers & their love affairs. Twenty years later, we meet them again. after bravely surviving it in a battle. ✍ “Filmmaking at its best! A thoroughly pleasing romantic comedy.” ✍ “Exciting … captivating.” RUSSIA PROFILE TIME ✍ “A unique & enthralling metaphysical view on war.” SBS

SOLARIS (1972, 169 MINS) Films screened in Russian with English subtitles Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Yuri Yarvet, Anatoly Normal Labia Admission Prices Solonitsin & others in a cult film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. To book  the Labia on (021) 424 5927 Winner of the Golden Palm award at Cannes, the film tells of an astronaut who travels to a distant space station orbiting the planet of Solaris, to investigate the many deaths occurring there. This visually ALL OUR SHOWS R45 striking Societ sci-fi film, based on a novel by Polish writer Stanislav (Subject to concessions for Labia screenings only) Lem, manages to convince without reliance on special effects. It Student/Fanatics/ Seniors/Children/Labia R 40 offers a reflection on the themes of cosmos, earth, man, human Gift Vouchers R 40 conscience, life, death & responsibility before the future. Solaris is a Book of 10 Pre-paid Admission Tickets R400 planet capable of materializing the earth peoples’ reminiscences about Movie Meal Specials for Two R 90/R99/R110 their home which they left on earth & their relatives who had died (Restaurants: Societi Bistro, Ocean Basket, Diva) long ago. It has intrigued people for years. But all their attempts to visit www.thelabia.co.za for details come in contact with the unknown civilization end in failure. Meanwhile, strange things happen on the space station. (for Labia shows only) visit www.thelabia.co.za for details Buy a book of 10 pre-paid admission tickets for R400 and save R50!

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