Film Question - US and Russia in Each Other's Films

[Stefani, Sara Marie]

Try also:

Comrade X (1940) - a very charming movie with Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr, somewhat along the lines of "Ninotchka" with Gable as a roguish journalist in Moscow and Lamarr as an earnest Communist

Mission to Moscow (1943) - film version of US Ambassador Joseph E. Davies' memoirs; extreme pro-Soviet propaganda! The depiction of Stalin towards the end is, wow.

The Iron Petticoat (1956) - Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope. A truly terrible, terrible movie, though.

Woody Allen's "Love and Death"
Mel Brooks' "The Twelve Chairs"
"White Nights" with Gregory Hines and Mikhail Baryshnikov
"The Hunt for Red October" with Sean Connery

Good luck!

 
Sara Stefani

Assistant Professor

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Indiana University

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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at listserv.ua.edu] on behalf of Benjamin Rifkin [rifkin at TCNJ.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 10:43 AM
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Subject: [SEELANGS] Film Question - US and Russia in Each Other's Films

Dear Colleagues:

I'm putting together a series of US and Russian films that depict both cultures.  I have a couple of Russian films to start with - Brat 2, American Daughter, Barber of Siberia - but I'd appreciate suggestions of more Russian films that depict Americans and American films that depict Russian characters and Russian culture.  All I'm coming up with are these:

Rocky 4
Russia House
Sneakers
Moscow on the Hudson
Red Dawn
The Russians Are Coming
Dr Strangelove

Thanks for any suggestions you may offer.

Sincerely,

Ben Rifkin

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