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To coincide with the Celebrating St. Petersburg Festival at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater presents Alexander Sokurov’s acclaimed new film, Russian Ark. During Fall 2003, the U-M Center for Russian and East European Studies and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures are co-sponsoring a six-part series of films set in St. Petersburg (Petrograd, Leningrad). This latter series is free and open to the public.

Russian Ark
A film by director Alexander Sokurov; Russia, 2002, 96 min. (Russian with English subtitles)
A visionary journey through St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum and 300 years of Russian history

LOCATION: Michigan Theater
PRESENTER: Michigan Theater

Russian Ark
A film by director Alexander Sokurov; Russia, 2002, 96 min. (Russian with English subtitles)
A visionary journey through St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum and 300 years of Russian history

LOCATION: Michigan Theater
PRESENTER: Michigan Theater

The End of St. Petersburg
A film by director Vsevolod Pudovkin; Soviet Union, 1927, 87 minutes (Russian with English subtitles)
A black-and-white, silent masterpiece depicting socialism’s struggle against capitalist influences in the context of political upheaval and the transformation from tsarist St. Petersburg to communist Leningrad

LOCATION: Auditorium A, Angell Hall, 435 S. State St.
PRESENTER: Center for Russian and East European Studies

October
A film by director Sergei Eisenstein; Soviet Union, 1928, 103 min. (Russian with English subtitles)
A reenactment of the 10 days in October 1917 in St. Petersburg when the Bolsheviks brought down the Kerensky government

LOCATION: Auditorium A, Angell Hall, 435 S. State St.
PRESENTER: Center for Russian and East European Studies

Peter the First, Part I
A film by director Vladimir Petrov; Soviet Union, 1937, 96 minutes (Russian with English subtitles)
A lavish, spectacular production covering the early years of the reign of Tsar Peter I (Peter the Great)

LOCATION: Auditorium A, Angell Hall, 435 S. State St.
PRESENTER: Center for Russian and East European Studies

The Burglar
A film by director Valeri Ogorodnikov; USSR, 1987, 83 min. (Russian with English subtitles)
A dark commentary shot in documentary style about a young punk musician and his idolizing younger brother in the growing rock music scene of 1980’s Leningrad

LOCATION: Auditorium A, Angell Hall, 435 S. State St.
PRESENTER: Center for Russian and East European Studies

Window to Paris
A film by director Yuri Mamin; Russia and France, 1994, 87 min. (French and Russian with English subtitles)
A bittersweet comedy about a group of Russian friends who discover a magical doorway in their St. Petersburg apartment leading them to Paris

LOCATION: Auditorium A, Angell Hall, 435 S. State St.
PRESENTER: Center for Russian and East European Studies

Brother
A film by director Aleksei Balabanov; Russia, 1997, 96 min. (Russian with English subtitles)
A gangster film mixed with a pointed social consciousness set in post-Soviet St. Petersburg’s underworld

LOCATION: Auditorium A, Angell Hall, 435 S. State St.
PRESENTER: Center for Russian and East European Studies

Credit: Peter the First poster, N. Sigalov
Source:  New Russian Media, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh developed by Professor Vladimir Padunov