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[Vin Raichur]

Such as the west europeans and americans, east europeans also made some films about the Great War, some being very good. But I can see that many people do not appreciate them, or not even know about. Most of the films I've seen on TV, are presenting the same content: "nothing about East, all about western front". Maybe is just the material, mostly coming from the communist era (Romania, my country, for example did the same to be honest gloryfing some of his heroes, but after 1995 we had in interesting WW1 movie about the Eastern Front in 1917 and the battles of Marasti, Marasesti and Oituz, considered to be the harshest from that front in 1917 and mentioned alongside the most important battles of the entire war). The movie I was reffering to as an example of eastern one is called " The Triangle of Death" ("Triunghiul Morții"), made after 1995, talking about the three main battles of the eastern front in 1917. That movie doesn't glorify for example the romanians, because this is many times a problem of the war movies from this are, there also being scenes with platoon squads executing their own commanders, generals who betray and join to the enemy, the fear of being just a peasant who was brought to the battle just for defending his land, brutal bayonete charges of both sides, pyles of dead bodies of the romanian soldiers and so on. That may look like a bit glorified the scenes depicting the national heroes during battle, but most of their actions, such as the army's are confirmed and really happened. Again, please give a chance to the east! That's why many people from the west of Europe or from America don't even know that countries such as Romania, Portugal, Greece, Bulgaria and so on were involved in the war, most of their knowlidge about WW1 being like "only Western Front happened; they also tried something at Gallipoli, but there was not any activity on other places in Europe"

I think its probably a combination of 'not knowing that the films exist` and the 'lack of subtitles' on some of them. I`ve come across some soviet movies covering ww2 and if they have subtitles I have found them, by and large, both interesting and entertaining.

I think there were some attempts to sell romanian WW1 movies in western Europe. A few years ago, there have been releaaed some editions of these movies with subtitles in English, French, German and Hungarian, for abyine wgo didn't kniw Romanian. But is also there some bias from the westerners? Because I haven't seen any WW1 movie about Eastern Front, or any other front but Western Front done in West Europe or America. Sorry if someone feels offended.

A common problem of many Romanian documentaries or blogs on WW1/WW2 is about bias and overglorifing the past, possibly a result of the education (or lack of) offered in school. And whem you think the documentary was bad, the comments are even worse: about WW1, it transforms into a huge romanian-hungarian argue, which really persists smd turns into extreme nationalism. When talking about WW2, there still are some "idiots" who still glorify Marshal Antonescu, the Legionnaires and say that Romania leaving the Axis was a huge mistake. But I can talk about that in a separate topic, if you are interested. Happy New Year!

Looking again into the question of War movies, two years later, I see nothing has changed too much. Besides anything made in Romania, is there no other war movie depicting or at least mentioning Romania in the Great War?

Mikhail Sholokhov's wonderful epic novel 'And Quiet Flows the Don' about a family of Don Cossacks during the years before and during WW1 has been filmed several times. Watched the 1957/1958 version directed by Garisimov fairly recently and was much impressed by the scenes showing Cossack attacks on the Austro-Hungarians The film has English subtitles but I think that it helped that I had read the book albeit when I was a teenager many years ago. Its in three parts and in total lasts about 5 hours but then perhaps nothing happens quickly in Mother Russia.

Netflix and other streaming services allow you to change the audio language and the subtitle languages on most of the programmes. Start with films you know well in English, and watch them in German with the German subtitles on to catch all the words.

Depending on your language level, kids programmes from preschool to school age give you a good grounding in some basics. Again, there are lots on Netflix and you can switch the language and the subtitles.

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Adventures of Mr. West - 1924. 100 minutes. B/W. Silent w/Subtitles. VHS. A prejudiced American visitor, Mr. West, arrives in Moscow expecting to find ruffians and bandits. A gang of Russians assists him to see what he expects. An inteligent and humorous satire on the foolish notions of Western culture, little seen outside the former USSR.

Anna Karenina - Clarence Brown. 1935. 96 minutes. B/W. English. VHS. Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love set during the spectacular reign of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Greta Garbo stars as the heroine, Anna Karenina.

Autumn Marathon - Georgi Danelia. 1979. 100 minutes. Color. Subtitled. VHS. This comedy presents the emotional predicament of a quiet man of letters who is torn between the love of his wife and that of a younger woman.

Ballad of a Soldier - Griorgi Chukrai. 1959. 89 minutes. B/W. Subtitled. VHS. One of the most highly acclaimed Soviet films. A young soldier is rewarded with a six-day leave for an heroic act. He makes a difficult journey home, falls in love along the way, and meets his mother only to return immediately to the front.

Big Exchange (The) - Gheorgui Shengheliya. 1989. 75 minutes. Color. Subtitled. Comedy. Adventures of two men as they try to exchange paper currency into coins during the monetary reform in Russia in the 50's.

Birds Are Flying Over Me - Interfilm. 1978. 30 minutes. Color. English. VHS. Film director Dovzhenko of Kiev Studios is shown in depth by examining his techniques, successes, and influence on world cinematography.

Chronicle of October 1917 - Interfilm. 1986. 30 minutes. Color. English. VHS. Showing events leading to the October Revolution in 1917 with lots of archival film, documents, and historical places as they looked then and now.

Cranes Are Flying (The) - Mikhail Kalatozov. 1957. 94 minutes. B/W. Subtitled. LD and VHS. One of the most acclaimed Soviet films of all time. Set during World War II, the film is a tragic story of the shattering of youthful ambitions and love by war.

Earth - Alexander Dovzhenko. 1930. 54 minutes. B/W. Silent w/Subtitles. VHS. A great silent masterpiece. This film presents the theme of the life cycle of man developed through constant juxtaposition and intertwining of images of life and death.

Father Sergius - Yakov Protozanov. 1917. 114 minutes. B/W. Silent with music score. VHS. Intrigue, corruption and weakness in the Court of Czar Nickolai I; the secrets of the famous monk and miracle-healer.

Forgotten Tune For The Flute (A) - 1987. 140 minutes. Color. Subtitles. VHS/LD. A funny and warm romantic comedy. A married man who lives an ordered life falls in love with a young nurse while in the hospital and then discovers his true personality.

House Under The Starry Sky (The) - Sergej Solovoyv. 1992. 90 minutes. Color. Subtitled. Mystery. Action. Focuses on a Jewish scientist, whose family is being haunted by a mysterious stranger.

Incident at Mapgrid 30-80 - Michail Tumanshvili. 1983. 90 minutes. Color. Russian subtitles. VHS. While the Soviet naval squadron is perfoming routine sea exercises, a flagship suddenly picks up a distress call from an American submarine. The Soviet salvage plane is prevented from boarding the sub, which maintains a secret nuclear arsenal, and the U.S . captain refuses aid. Meanwhile the submarine's computer malfunctions and the order is given for the cruise missiles to be launched.

Jazzman - Karen Shakhnazarov. 1983. 80 minutes. Color. Subtitled. VHS. A young Jazz enthusiast leaves music school where his musical interests could not be pursued. He forms a jazz band with two colorful street musicians and a saxophonist left over from the Czar's marching band.

Lady with a Dog (The) - 1960. 89 minutes. Black and white. Enflish subtitles. VHS. Anton Chechov's classic story about a bored, middle-aged, married banker from Moscow who meets a young married woman while on vacation in Yalta at the beginning of the century. They drift into an affair that turns into true love, yet the conventions of society and the couple's need to feel respectable force them to return to their old lives.

Little Vera - 1989. 101 minutes. Color. Subtitled. VHS. LD. The film that took Russia by storm. A sultry teenager is torn between her brooding husband and her bitter parents in a dead-end town.

Maxim Gorky - Interfilm. 1977. 30 minutes. Color. English. VHS. The life of Maxim Gorky, his life in Capri, his youth and his eventual return to the U.S.S.R. are presented. Lots of archival film footage.

Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears - Vladimir Menshou. 1980. 150 minutes. Color. Subtitled. VHS. Winner of Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The funny, charming story of the trials and tribulations of three young women who come to Moscow to make good.

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