History of Russian (Soviet) Cinema I: Beginnings of Russian and Soviet Cinematography (1890s - Beginnings of 1920s) I

Sylabus

1) Beginnings of Russian Cinematography (Since 1890s till 1917) 2) Projection of Chosen Movies by Evgenii Bauer (Twilight of a Woman's Soul /1913/, After Death /1915/, The Dying Swan /1916/) 3) Bolshevic Revolution and the Civil War - Soviet Movie Since 1917 till 1924 4) Projection of Chosen Movie by Lev Kuleshov (The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of Bolsheviks /1924/) or Yakov Protazanov (Aelita /1924/) 5) Soviet Entertaining Movies of the 1920s (1924-1930) 6) Projection of Chosen Movie by Yakov Protazanov, Boris Barnet, or Fridrich Ermler 7) Montage School - example I: Sergei Eisenstein 8) Projection of Chosen Movie by Sergei Eisenstein 9) Montage School - example II: Vsevolod Pudovkin and Alexander Dovzhenko 10) Projection of Chosen Movie by Vsevolod Pudovkin, or Alexander Dovzhenko 11) Montage School - example III: Dziga Vertov and others (Kozintsev, Yutkevich, Trauberg) 12) Projection of Chosen Movie by Dziga Vertov

Anotace

The course deals with the beginnings of the Russian movie at the turn of the 19th and 20th century and first impulses of Soviet cinematography in 1920s. It analyzes not only the Russian (Soviet) movie, with strong emphasis on Montage school in 1920s, but also the whole context in which the Russian (Soviet) cinematography developed, for example the role of art as a whole, role of foreign influences, conditions of development, political and propagandist aspects etc.

A part of the course will compose the projection and examples of chosen movies.