USSR Movies, Art, Culture

Вий / VIY (1967) dir. Konstantin Yershov and Georgi Kropachyov

Moldova Monastery. Byzantine art of the 15th and 16th centuries

Russia’s village libraries. Photos by Ksenia Inverse

Moscow's neon signs (1964)

Sofiya Perovskaya (1967, Lev Arnshtam)

Vsevolod Pudovkin, {1953} Возвращение Василия Бортникова (The Return of Vasili Bortnikov)

Карнавальная ночь /Carnival Night (1956) dir. Eldar Ryazanov

Tamara Nosova in Илья Муромец | Ilya Muromets (1956)

Solyaris (1972) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky.

Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)

“See, I love you. But love is a feeling we can experience but never explain. One can explain the concept. You love that which you can lose: yourself, a woman, a homeland. Until today, love was simply unattainable to mankind, to the Earth. There are so few of us. A few billion altogether. A handful. Maybe we’re here in order to experience people as a reason for love.” Solaris (1972) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

“See, I love you. But love is a feeling we can experience but never explain. One can explain the concept. You love that which you can lose: Yourself, a woman, a homeland. Until today, love was simply unattainable to mankind, to the earth. Maybe we are here to experience people as a reason for love.”

Dune (2021) Dir Denis Villeneuve. Solaris (1972) Dir Andrei Tarkovsky

-Yes. Maybe. But I - I am becoming a human being. I can feel just as deeply as you. Believe me.

“Remember Tolstoy? His suffering over the impossibility of loving mankind as a whole? How much time has passed since then? Somehow I can’t figure it out. Help me.“