Spirit of the Sixties

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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Spirit of the Sixties
  • An Unusual Exhibition
    An Unusual Exhibition
    Movie + 6 extras

    An Unusual Exhibition

    Movie + 6 extras

    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...

  • The Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon
    The Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon
    Movie + 2 extras

    The Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon

    Movie + 2 extras

    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,...

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