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Title: Russian Film Symposium: Sergei Livnev’s Hammer and Sickle
START DATE: 5/3/2012
START TIME: 7:30 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: Oakland -- other
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Melwood Screening Room
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Event Type: Film/Video
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DESCRIPTION:
From May 2 to May 5, the evening (7:30 p.m.) screenings at Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room include Aleksandr Medvedkin’s Happiness (1935), with live musical accompaniment on the gamelan; Sergei Livnev’s Hammer and Sickle (1991), celebrating the démodé or the historical trash of the Soviet era; Feliks Mikhailov’s Jolly Fellows (2009), the transgressive performance of drag queens; and Vladimir Mirzoev’s Boris Godunov (2011), the clash between popular culture and the classic. The admission to each evening film costs $7.

See http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu for more details