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 extrasThe Tough Ones
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Directed by Miodrag Popović • 1968 • Yugoslavia
Renowned painter turned filmmaker Miodrag Popović made his indelible contribution to the Yugoslav Black Wave with this harsh but humanist take on the psychic scars of war. Two brothers, Isidor (Jovan Janićijević-Burduš) and Gvozden (Danilo ‘Bata’ S...
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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,...