Everyone knows Robert Eggers, director of The Witch, The Northman, and Nosferatu, one of the most singular voices in American cinema.

Fewer know where he finds influence. Again and again, in interviews and in a whole programme of films he personally curated, Eggers points East. We trace the Eastern European, Caucasian, and Central Asian films hiding inside his work, most of them barely seen in the West, and all of them worth uncovering.

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