Geography and movies

[Genevra Gerhart]

For "pure" Russian geography, unspoilt by the necessities of
storytelling and camera angle, one respondent highly recommended "The
New Russia" (1996) series from Films for the Humanities and Sciences at
Princeton, NJ. The series includes 20 minute films on the Moscow Region,
Norilsk and Life in the Arctic, Steppes of North Caucasus, the Volga
Region, the Kuzbass, and Way of Life.
However, as a reminder that there is a "where" to every conversation,
these are the films associated with a particular space, and suggested by
Seelangers.

Caspian         White Sun of the Desert
Crimea          Assa
Far East        Dersu Uzala
Karelia (North) A zori zdes  tikhiye
Moscow          Kur er,
Siberia         There lives such a lad (Shukshin), Rodnya, Sibiriada,
Proshcheniye s Materoy, Neotpravlennoye pis mo, Freeze Die Come         to Life
St Petersburg   Autumn Marathon, Window to Paris, Dostoyaniye   respubliki,
White Nights
Tver            Scarecrow

For Russian countryside: Burnt by the Sun, Don t shoot at the White
Swans, Zerkalo, Chonkin, Kurochka ryaba
For a small town: Amerikanka
For a deserted village 80 km from St Petersburg: Khlebnyy den'
For Ukraine and Kiev: Friend of the Deceased, For Zhdanov: Little Vera
For Armenia: Color of Pomegranates

Many thanks to our contributors: Karen Benko, Laura Kline, Leonid
Okneansky, Katya Hirvasaho, Tim Pogacar, Michael Younger, C. Fields, Ben
Rifkin, Lisa Little, Jennifer Ryan, and Sylvia

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