Russian Cinema
Pod Baranami Cinema hosts Sputnik Over Kraków: Replica of the 13th Sputnik Over Poland Russian Film Festival. Between 9 and 15 December we will see twelve films, including Pavel Lungin’s Brotherhood telling the story of the last few months of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, exposing the full spectrum of human responses in the face of impending catastrophe without resorting to patriotic pomp. Boris Akopov’s The Bull takes us back in time to the wild days of the disintegration of the post-Soviet world, the first Chechen War and the birth of the Russian mafia when clashes between rival gangs and executions in broad daylight were commonplace. We will also see the psychological drama Van Goghs with a stellar Polish and Russian cast: Daniel Olbrychski as a world-famous conductor and Aleksei Serebryakov as his abstract artist son. (Justyna Skalska, “Karnet” magazine)