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Farewell (1983 film)

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373:'s characters represent the different positions society might take with respect to progress. Darya represents old world ideals of ecological sanctity, she is the “embodiment of passive resistance to technological progress”. Her son, who must evacuate the village, is caught between the two worlds, but his good intentions do not stop him from preparing the town for its destruction. And finally, Darya’s grandson is emblematic of city life, totally unmoored from his traditional roots and helpless against spiritual corruption. 1094: 29: 1072: 1147: 385:
evokes a “mythic land” that signifies to Russians what the Wild West does for Americans. The ancient tree that cannot be uprooted, the intertwining of Christianity and paganism, and the dense myopic fog of the film’s closing scene all represent the nostalgic mood of the late soviet era – the search
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uses images of a mythic Russian past to create a longing for an impossible mythic return, "the loss of an enchanted world with clear borders and values". This enchanted world, "post-soviet nostalgia" is a augmented memory which "re-imagines the crash of Communism, as the crash of something very
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which occurred in the same year of the film's official release, were beginning to bring about ecological degradation that was "too drastic to ignore". The flooding of Matyora in
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Klimov reflects the disillusionment of a post-industrial Soviet society which has officially abandoned the rhetoric of attaining communism in any near future.
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The existence of the village of Matyora, located on a small island of the same name, is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam to serve a
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died in a car accident along with four members of her shooting team. After a delay the project was finally completed in 1981 by her widower
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were all preoccupied with the beauty of the machine whose representation was largely positive until the cultural liberation of the
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In evoking an idyllic village in Siberia, untouched by much of the political upheaval of the twentieth century,
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joins the longstanding tradition of soviet film of inspecting the relationship between technology and nature.
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While scouting locations in June 1979 for her planned adaptation of the ecological fable, original director
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for lost unity, a displaced identity, and the disorientation of a society robbed of its future.
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and although shelved for a further two years, was eventually given a limited release in the
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is a direct reference to and symbolic exploration of the fall-out of such decisions.
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personal, innocent, and full of hope . . . that marked childhood and youth". In
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in Siberia, among other environmentally destructive projects such as the
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This article related to a Soviet film of the 1980s is a
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Elem Klimov
Larisa Shepitko
Stefaniya Stanyuta
Lev Durov
Aleksei Petrenko
Vyacheslav Artyomov
Alfred Schnittke
Mosfilm
Russian
romanized
Soviet
drama film
on
Valentin Rasputin
Farewell to Matyora
Elem Klimov
hydroelectric power plant
Stefaniya Stanyuta
Lev Durov
Aleksei Petrenko
Larisa Shepitko
Elem Klimov
Soviet Union
Berlin Film Festival
Glasnost
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sergei Eisenstein
Dziga Vertov
Alexander Dovzhenko

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