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Hello dear visitors! This is it for our Kira Muratova week. I hope me and Krasnaya might have inspired you to watch some of her movies if you haven't done it. I will leave you with a short documentary below if you're interested in learning a little bit about this unique director. She would prefer for you to watch her movies and just forget about her though. We have become quite attached to the cast of Kira's movies and we're going to give a try to Maski-Show, a silent comedy series where a few of her regular actors participated. As it's becoming usual, tomorrow we will announce our next week's theme. Below the documentary you can click on the images of the movies we saw this week and check out our little conversations and individual ratings (listed from best to worst).

The Asthenic Syndrome is a 1989 Soviet drama film directed by Kira Muratova. It is the sixth feature film directed by Muratova, and arguably her masterpiece, most important film and best known film. The film was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. It won the 1991 Nika Award in Russia. In the list of the hundred best Ukrainian films according to film critics, compiled in 2021, the film takes 6th place. The film caused a mixed reaction from critics and the party leadership of the country. Released in limited release. The first Soviet film in which obscene language was used. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asthenic_Syndrome In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096841/ ***SPOILER...

Chekhovians Motifs is a 2002 Russian-Ukrainian comedy film directed by Kira Muratova. At the 2002 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards Kira Muratova received the prize for Best Director. It is based on two works of Anton Chekhov: the short story Difficult People and the unfinished short play Tatyana Repina. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_Motifs In a large Shiryaev family, the eldest of the children, student Pyotr, is trying to overcome his dependence on a despotic father. The resigned mother tries to protect him, the sister, thirteen-year-old Varvara, is indifferent to family quarrels. Leaving his parental home to go to the city to study, Peter instead ends up in a rural church for the wedding of a visiting bohemian. During a long church service, the guests, consumed by boredom and impatience, are distracted by a strange phenomenon: a woman wrapped in black and groaning appears in the church. Some of the guests, and then the groom himself, take ...

The Tuner is a 2004 Russia/Ukraine co-production feature film directed by Kira Muratova. Its a modern interpretation of the memoirs of the famous Russian detective of tsarist times Arkady Koshko. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2004. The stars of the film include famous Russian actors such as Alla Demidova, Renata Litvinova, Nina Ruslanova, and Georgi Deliyev. Nika Award 2004 for best actress Alla Demidova, best director Kira Muratova and best Supporting Actress Nina Ruslanova source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tuner A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383020/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** F: Hiya Krasnaya! Seems like I have a new favorite black and white comedy! This movie is insanely funny. This is a hidden gem of a movie. We follow the story of a con artist who tunes pianos and befrien...

Three Stories is a Ukrainian-Russian crime comedy movie co-production directed by Kira Muratova. The film premiered on June 3, 1997. It ranks 63rd in the list of the 100 best films in the history of Ukrainian cinema. The film is dedicated to the memory of Sergei Apollinarievich Gerasimov. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Stories_(1997_film) A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor's five-year-old daughter "all the abomination of her lumpen existence". The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man ...

The Long Farewell is a Soviet film drama directed by Kira Muratova. It was filmed in 1971, but it was put on a shelf and was only released on the screens in perestroika in 1987. It ranks 9th in the list of the 100 best films in the history of Ukrainian cinema . source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Farewell A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. When Sasha grew up to become a teenager, he got tired of the nagging of her mother. One summer, he goes to visit his father in Novosibirsk, on the other side of the country. When he returns, his mother notices that Sasha had changed. She secretly reads a letter that Sasha received from his father and she finds out that Sasha doesn't want to live with her any longer. She cannot understand, she cannot accept. When Sasha realizes that she is suffering because of his wish to leave, he decides to stay. source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092905/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** ...

Hello everyone! This week on the menu we have movies by the director, Kira Muratova!  Who? Exactly. Our theme for this week was secretly chosen by Krasnaya.  I've seen that most of the movies we are going to watch have a 2 hour runtime average, and are mostly in black and white. So, I'm hoping to not die from tedium 😛. Just kidding, I'm excited to get to know this director's work. Kira Georgievna Muratova was a Soviet-Ukrainian award-winning film director, screenwriter, and actress of Romanian/Jewish descent, known for her unusual directorial style. Muratova's films underwent a great deal of censorship in the Soviet Union, yet still Muratova managed to emerge as one of the leading figures in contemporary Russian cinema and was able to build a very successful film career from the 1960s onwards. Her work has been described as possibly 'one of the most distinctive and singular oeuvres of cinematic world-making. Kira Muratova died on June 6, 2018, in...