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| | RusFilm-2004. 35mm at Pittsburgh Filmmakers |
 | | In the two decades leading up to the tenure of Mikhail Gorbachev and the historical period of perestroika (1985-1991), the political leadership of the Soviet Union resided in the hands (and frail bodies) of an aging group of men. |
 | | Admittedly, many new directors shot their debut films between the 1960s and 1970s (Vadim Abdrashitov, Aleksei German, Elem Klimov, Andrei Konchalovskii, Nikita Mikhalkov, Kira Muratova, Sergei Paradzhanov, Vasilii Shukshin, Andrei Smirnov, Andrei Tarkovskii), but the influx of new talent never again attained the magnitude of the immediate post-war years. |
 | | In addition, most of these directors encountered serious problems with the cultural (and in the case of Paradzhanov, judicial) administration, resulting in the cancellation of numerous film projects and the shelving of many of their films. |
| www.rusfilm.pitt.edu /2004/program1.html (560 words) |
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