Spirit of the Sixties
Despite their reputation for conformism and censorship, communist Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union produced their own vibrant counterculture during the 1960s. Matching their Western colleagues for rebelliousness and innovation, these directors transformed cinema behind the Iron Curtain. Our collection includes masterpieces from a number of “new wave” movements: Ukrainian Poetic Cinema, the Yugoslav Black Wave, and the Soviet Thaw.
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Movie + 2 extrasThree
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Directed by Aleksandar Petrović • 1965 • Yugoslavia
The first mature masterpiece from a figurehead of Yugoslav film, Three established Aleksandar Petrović at the forefront of the so-called Black Wave movement. Across a triptych of stories, we follow a soldier named Miloš (iconic actor Velimir “B...
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Movie + 2 extrasThe Stone Cross
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Directed by Leonid Osyka • 1968 • USSR/Ukraine
Western Ukraine in the 1890s. When elderly peasant Ivan Didukh decides to leave his Carpathian home in search of a better life in Canada, the village comes together to ceremonially mark his departure, understood as symbolic of the death of their old...
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Movie + 6 extrasAn Unusual Exhibition
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Directed by Eldar Shengalaia • 1968 • USSR/Georgia
An Unusual Exhibition is a typically playful and melancholic work by one of Georgia’s best-loved directors. Charting the artistic frustration and romantic elation of Aguli, a down-on-his-luck sculptor forced to produce gravestones in order to su...
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Movie + 2 extrasThe Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon
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Directed by Sándor Reisenbüchler • 1968 • Hungary
Inspired by Carpathian folklore and based on the epic poem by Ferenc Juhász, this mesmerising animated short by the great Sándor Reisenbüchler imagines a world destroyed and then rebuilt. A fearsome, seven-headed dragon swallows the sun and moon,...