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MELODIA!  Discovering Musicals from Russia and the Caucasus

MELODIA!
Discovering Musicals from Russia and the Caucasus

About the Season 

Melodia! celebrates the diversity and complexity of Soviet, Russian and Caucasian musicals. It gives UK audiences a unique opportunity to explore an undiscovered musical tradition in the context of the main BFI programme of American and British musicals. Highlights of the season include: COSSACKS OF THE KUBAN (1949) with numbers from famed composer Isaac Dunaevsky which mythologises Soviet prosperity and CHERYOMUSHKI (1963), based on Dmitri Shostakovich‘s operetta of the same name exploring housing shortages in Moscow in the 1950s. It also comprises beloved Soviet classics, such as Eldar Ryazanov’s CARNIVAL NIGHT (1956) alongside HIPSTERS (2008), an optimistic rethinking of Soviet counter-culture of the 1950s, and LETO (2018), directed by recently detained director Kirill Serebrennikov, expemplifying a controversial new nostalgia towards the Perestroika spirit of freedom.

Cossacks of the Kuban (1949)
by Ivan Pyryev

BFI Southbank (London)
Mo 14.10.2019
Thu 31.10.2019
Podcast
Programme Note

Cheryomushki (1962)
by Herbert Rappaport

Cine Lumiere (London)
We 08.01.2020
Podcast
Programme Note

A Man from Boulevard des Capucines (1987)
by Alla Surikova

Cine Lumiere (London)
We 22.01.2020
Podcast
Programme Note

Carnival Night (1956)
by Eldar Ryazanov

Watershed Cinema (Bristol)
Su 05.01.2020
Cine Lumiere (London)
Tu 14.01.2020
Podcast
Programme Note

Karine (1969)
by Arman Manaryan

Cine Lumiere (London)
Tu 21.01.2020
Podcast
Programme Note

Melodies of the Vera Quarter (1973)
by Giorgi Shengelaia

Cine Lumiere (London)
We 15.01.2020
Podcast
Programme Note

Hipsters (2008)
by Valery Todorovsky

Watershed Cinema (Bristol)
Su 19.01.2020
Cine Lumiere (London)
Tu 28.01.2020
Podcast
Programme Note

We are from Jazz (1983)
by Karen Shakhnazarov

Cine Lumiere (London)
Tu 07.01.2020
Watershed Cinema (Bristol)
Su 12.01.2020
Podcast
Programme Note

Leto (2018)
by Kirill Serebrennikov

Watershed Cinema (Bristol)
Su 26.01.2020
Cine Lumiere (London)
Fri 31.01.2020
Podcast
Programme Note

Carnival Night (1956)
by Eldar Ryazanov

Kino Klassika partners with the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) to screen Carnival Night, introduced by the Guardian's chief film critic, Peter Bradshaw.

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