音乐纪录片——东欧社会主义体制如何制作和发展音乐电影和音乐剧。往往被视为西方腐朽文化的歌舞片,其中的“视觉音乐”“身体语言”如何转化,为现行文艺路线所吸纳,以及随之而来产生的刺激点和禁忌。非常有意思的一个视角。
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East Side Story (1997)
"That's Entertainment!," Communist style. A documentary about movie musicals produced during the height of the old Soviet bloc. Comrades drive tractors, sweep factory floors, feed farm animals, harvest crops, all the while sing...
July, 1969. The space race for Moon exploration between the Americans and Soviets gets to its final moments. The first human beeing is going to land shortly on the Moon. But, an incident in Carpathians Mountains and a misterious footage, revealed by prof. Werner, take the Moon exploration stories to some new fantastic posibillities.
An eclectic film, in which suspense and cynicism sometimes meet the grotesque, "Back and forth" reminds, in many ways, the future masterpiece, "Cruise" (1981), directed by Mircea Daneliuc. Placed on the water's edge, where several characters sit with their bellies in the sun and when they talk about what they want and what they don't want, when they keep quiet, "Back and forth"...
During World War II, several young men captured a German soldier on the roof of the building he was defending and where they most likely lived. One of them stays in the same room with the man for a longer time, guarding him under the threat of a rifle. The relationship that is created between them, despite the language barrier, is abruptly stopped by the action of another kid, ...