CONTENT

• Background
• Arms Control and International Security
• African Studies
• East Asian Studies
• Latin American Studies
• Near Eastern Studies
• Brazilian Studies
• European/Russian Studies

The SOCCIS Film Library serves the international Studies faculty of consortium member institutions. Through the Film Library, instructors at member institution may borrow audiovisual learning materials without paying rental fees or handling charges. By pooling these resources, SOCCIS makes available a wide range of expensive educational materials at no cost to consortium members.

Beginning 2000, SOCCIS is pleased to announce the addition of 28 videos to the Film Library, for a total of 347 videos and films in the SOCCIS collection. There are four new films on Africa being added to the collection, including "Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers", "Mandela: From Prison to President," Sudan: On the Slave Trail," and "Healers of Ghana." In addition, there are 24 videos on Brazil that are being added to the SOCCIS Latin American collection.

In 1991, the UCLA Center for Korean Studies generously made a collection of 50 videotapes on aspects of Korean Culture available to the SOCCIS Film Library. The collection includes 29 videos in English and 21 in Korean. The videos were donated to the Korea Program by the Korea Research Foundation, Seoul, Korea. They constitute an important addition to the SOCCIS East Asian collection. During 1996, the UCLA Center for European and Russian studies donated twenty-one videotapes dealing with Eastern Europe and Russia. A brief description of these videos is provided at the end of this section.

The SOCCIS Film Library's holdings concentrate on several areas: Africa, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Arms Control and International Security. Like the Korean and Russian videos, many of the films listed in the catalog below are the property of the UCLA centers: the African Studies Center, the Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, the Center for International Relations, the Center for Korean Studies and the Center for European and Russian Studies. In the spirit of cooperation, these centers have made their films collections available through SOCCIS to member institutions for instructional purposes. Films that are limited to UCLA use by purchase/lease restrictions are not listed here.

The size of the various categories of SOCCIS film holdings is as follows:

Category Number of Films/Videos

Arms Control and International Security 85

African Studies 75

African Studies (added 2000) 4

East Asian Studies 56

Near Eastern Studies 51

Latin American Studies 31

Brazilian Studies (added 2000) 24

European/Russian Studies 21
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Total 347

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Catalog of SOCCIS Films and Videos

Arms Control and International Security Films and Videos

1. The Ambassadors: A discussion of Soviet American Relations
2. America from Hitler to MX
3. Anybody's Son will do
4. Armaments: The War Game
5. The Arms Race, Arms Control, and Peace Studies
6. Atomic Attach
7. The Atomic Cafe
8. The Battle of Russia
9. The Bomb: February - September 1945
10. Can Nuclear War be Controlled?
11. The Class that Went to War
12. Countdown for America
13. The Cuban Missile Crises
14. Daniel Ellsberg Speaks on America's Nuclear Policy
15. Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb
16. The Deadly Game of Nations
17. The Decision to Drop the Bomb
18. A Defense that Defends
19. Dr. Stangelove
20. The Edge of History
21. An Essay on War
22. Faces of the Enemy
23. Fail-Safe
24. First Fifty Years: Reflections on US- Soviet Relations
25. The Freeze
26. General Maxwell Taylor
27. George Kennan: A Critical Voice
28. Gods of Metal
29. Goodbye War
30. Ground Zero at Bangor
31. The H-Bomb Decision
32. Hi-tech Diplomacy
33. Hiroshima: the People's Legacy
34. How much is often enough?
35. How Well We Meant
36. If You Love this Planet
37. In Our Defense
38. In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
39. Keeping the Old Game Alive
40. The Last Epidemic
41. The Missals of October
42. The MX Debate
43. No First Use: Preventing Nuclear War
44. No Place to Hide
45. Notes on Nuclear War
46. The Nuclear Arms Race
47. Nuclear Countdown
48. Nuclear Strategy for Beginners
49. Nuclear War: A Guide to Armageddon
50. Nuclear Winter: Changing our Way of Thinking
51. The Other Nuclear Arms Race
52. Our Friends the Germans
53. Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang
54. The Plutonium Connection
55. The Portable Phonograph
56. Problems of Succession in the Soviet Leadership
57. The Profession of Arms
58. Protection in the Nuclear Age
59. Quest for Peace: Betty Reardon
60. Quest for Peace: Helen Caldicott
61. The Red Army
62. The Red Nightmare
63. Remembering the War
64. Retrospective (Missile Crises)
65. The Rise of the Red Navy
66. The Road to Total War
67. South Africa: The Nuclear File
68. Soviet Defense Decision
69. Soviet Military Strength 1988
70. The Soviet Threat
71. Star Wars: Fact or Fiction?
72. A Step Away from War
73. Survival... or Suicide
74. Ten Seconds that Shook the World
75. To Die, to Live: The Survivors of Hiroshima
76. A Trillion Dollars for Defense
77. The War Game
78. War Without Winners II
79. Weapons in Space
80. What about the Russians?
81. What Soviet Children Are Saying about Nuclear War
82. Who Speaks for Man?
83. Why in the World?
84. The Work of Diplomacy
85. The World after Nuclear War: Nuclear Winter

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African Studies Videos and Films

1. A Luta Continua
2. Adama: The Fulani Magician
3. African Changes: A Young Leader in a Young Nation
4. African City: Contrasting Cultures
5. African Craftsmen: The Ashanti
6. The Afrikaner Experience: Politics of Exclusion
7. Arts and Crafts in West Africa
8. Atumpan: The Talking Drums of Ghana
9. Awake from Mourning
10. Awakening -- Vukani Mukai
11. Benin Kingship Rituals
12. The Bible and the Gun
13. Biko: Breaking the Silence
14. The Blooms of Banjeli
15. Bono Medicines
16. Bound to Strike Back
17. Caravans of Gold
18. Children of Apartheid
19. Conceicao Tchaimbula: A Day, A Life
20. Corridors of Freedom
21. Crossroads/South Africa: The Struggle Continues
22. A Cry for Freedom
23. The Cry for Reason
24. Dance of the Bella
25. Destructive Engagement
26. Different but Equal
27. Diro and His Talking Musical Bow
28. A Discarded People
29. Duminea: A Festival for the Water Spirits
30. East Africa: Two Lifestyles
31. Freedom Charter
32. Generations of Resistance
33. Girls Apart
34. Harvest: 3,000 Years
35. Hausa Art in Northern Nigeria
36. Heritage of the Negro
37. The Jungle
38. Kenya: The Multi-racial Experiment
39. Kings and Cities
40. Kwagh-hir: The Traditional Theater of the Tiv People
41. Last Grave at Dimbaza
42. The Legacy
43. Leopold Sedar Senghor
44. The Marriage or Mariamo
45. Mastering a Continent
46. Man Mau
47. Moving on: The Hunger for Land in Zimbabwe
48. Namibia: Africa's Last Colony
49. Nawi
50. New Images: Cahnging Art in Changing African Society
51. The New Zimbabwe
52. O Povo Organizado
53. Old Africa and the New Ethiopoa and Botswana
54. Omowale: The Child Returns Home
55. Rise of Nationalism
56. Salima in Transition
57. Sharing is Unity
58. Six Days in Soweto
59. South Africa
60. South Africa: The Nuclear File
61. South Africa: The White Laager
62. Spear of the Nation
63. Studies in Nigerian Dance
64. Swampdwellers
65. The Magnificent African Cake
66. Tides of the Delta: The Saga of Ozidi
67. Twenty Years of African Cinema
68. Were-ni: He is a Madman
69. West Africa: Two Lifestyles
70. White Man's Country
71. Witness to Apartheid
72. The Women Will... Wanawake Watatunza
73. Yoruba Divination and Sacrifice
74. You have Struck a Rock!
75. You Hide Me

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African Studies Videos - added 2000

1. Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers
The years 1960 through 1994 were a time of terror in South Africa. With the destruction of the yoke of apartheid in 1994, South Africa has had to come to terms with its oppressive past: recrimination and punishment, or forgiveness? This compelling program describes the efforts of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to investigate human rights violations, to heal the country, and to help South Africa in its process of reinvention. Prize-winning journalist Bill Moyers and producer-director Gail Pellett speak with apartheid victims to hear their stories firsthand. Additional interviews with Nobel laureate and TRC Architect Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former officers of state security, counterterrorists, and journalists-combined with footage of some of the most dramatic confrontations that occurred during the TRC hearings-round out this powerful documentary. As the U.S. wrestles with its own heritage of discrimination and injustice, the TRC's process offers insights into how America might improve its own future through reconciliation and forgiveness. (2 hours, color)

2. Healers of Ghana
This Program explores the traditional medical practices of the Bono people of central Ghana and how their healers are cooperating with Western doctors, using herbs and spiritualism to improve health-care delivery in rural areas. Traditionally, Bono tribal priests undergo a painful spiritual possession, during which deities reveal to them the causes of illnesses, which plants to use to treat them, who is perpetrating witchcraft, and which villagers might be endangering society through improper behavior. The program features vibrant dance and possession ceremonies, set against the backdrop of the Bono villages, which are awash with color. (58 minutes, color)

3. Mandela: From Prison to President
This moving and intimate portrait of Nelson Mandela shows us the man within the context of the times and the problems they present. Through the testimony of his most intimate friends and family, a very personal picture emerges. The program also confronts head-on the momentous questions that must be answered: how to end the violence that is still part of daily life; what the future will be of the white business community; whether he can persuade the white right-wing to lay down its arms; and whether he can appease and control the radical youth of the townships. Mandela and South Africa have come a long way, but the journey is far from over. (52 minutes, color)

4. Sudan: On the Slave Trail
Many believe that the systematic enslavement of black Africans ended with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Yet in Sudan, a lucrative slave trade is flourishing as the war between the SPLA and the Islamic government continues. This eye-opening program exposes the predicament of Dinka children: captured in the south, sold to wealthy Arabic Sudanese in the north, and, for a lucky few, bought back by outside relief organizations-only to run the risk of being captured and sold again. Tacitly sanctioned by the government and abetted, in a sense, by the very organizations opposed to its practice, how will this predatory cycle be broken, once and for all? (24 minutes, color)

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East Asian Studies Videos and Films

Videos on Korea in English (all produced in 1984):
1. A-Ak (Confucian Ritual Music)
2. Celadon of the Koryo Dynasty (A.D. 935-1392
3. Dances of Korea
4. Dano Day
5. Education of Korea
6. Harvest Moon Festival
7. Inlaid Work
8. Korean Flower Shoes
9. Korean Art 5,000 Years
10. Korean Cutural Remains
11. Korean Earthenware
12. Korean High Craftmanship
13. Korean Lacquerware
14. Korean Painting
15. Korean's Smile
16. Korean Traditional Costume
17. Korean Treasures from a Tomb
18. Mask Play
19. National Classical Music
20. National Folklore Museum
21. New Year's Day
22. Old Time's Furniture
23. Sok-kuram (Grotto Shrine)
24. Spring of Home Country
25. Traditional Instruments
26. Traditional Dance
27. Yi Dynasty Ceramics (A.D. 1392-1910)
28. The Ceremonies of Coming-of-Age, Marriage, Funeral and Ancestor Memorial
29. The Home Life of the Korean People

Videos on Korea in Korean:
30. Masterpiece Theater, Yoon, Dong-Ju
31. Masterpiece Theater, Chae, Man-Shik
32. Masterpiece Theater, Lee, Yook-Sah
33. Masterpiece Theater, Han, Yoon-Oon
34. Masterpiece Theater, Jung, Yi-Yong
35. Masterpiece Theater, Lee, Sang-Hwa
36. Traditional Arts of Korea, Pan-Soh- Rhee (Recital of Dramatic Songs)
37. Traditional Arts of Korea, Min-Sok-Ahk
(Folk Music)
38. Traditional Arts of Korea, Jong-Ahk (Ah-Ahk) Classical Court Music
39. 100 Korean Songs (Part I)
40. 100 Korean Songs (Part II)
41. The Sources of Korean Culture: Buddhist Temple
42. The Sources of Korean Culture: The Shaman's World
43. The Sources of Korean Culture: Folktales
44. The Sources of Korean Culture: Classical Musical Instruments
45. Masks of Korea
46. Beauty of Korea: Sports/Games
47. Beauty of Korea: Sounds
48. Beauty of Korea: Folk Religion
49. Folktales of Korea
50. The Shaman's World

Films on China
51. The Barefoot Doctors
52. China: Making of a Civilization
53. Chinese Cult of the Dead
54. Chinese Shamanism
55. One Nation, Many Peoples
56. The People's Army

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Latin American Studies Videos and Films

1. Andrean Women
2. Araucanians or Ruca Choroy
3. The Ax Fight
4. Barravento
5. Brazil: The Vanishing Negro
6. The Brazilian Connection
7. The Children Know
8. Chuquiago
9. Discovering the Moche
10. Eduardo the Healer
11. El Salvador: Another Vietnam?
12. A Father Washes His Children
13. Flavio
14. For the First Time
15. From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today
16. Interview with Armando Gota
17. Interview with Professor Orlando Rodriguez
18. The Jackal of Nahueltoro
19. The Life and Death of Frida Kahlo
20. The Lost World of the Maya
21. Magical Death
22. A Man Called Bee: Studying the Yanomamo
23. Memories of the Cangaco
24. The Other Francisco
25. Rebellion in Patagonia
26. Reminicensas da Guerra
27. The Spirit Possession of Alejandro Mamani
28. The Tree of Life
29. The Turtle People
30. World of a Primitive Painter
31. Zerda's Children

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Brazilian Videos

1. Amazonia Paraíso Em Perígo 65 minutes
Director: Manchete Video

2. Black God & White Devil

3. Black Orpheus (1958) 103 minutes
Director: Marcel Camus

4. Brasilianas (1) (1945-56) 61 minutes
Director: Humberto Mauro

5. Brasilianas (2); Aruanda, Romeiros da Guia, Segunda-Feira (1993)
47 minutes
Director: Linduarte Noronha, Wladmir Carvalho Geraldo Sarno

6. Brasilianas (3); Ecologia, Sob O Ditame do rude Almajesto 45 minutes
Director: Leon Hirszman, Olney Sao Paulo, Joaquin Pedro de Andrade

7. Bye Bye Brazil (1980) 115 minutes
Director: Carlos Diegues

8. Como Era Gostoso o Meu Frances (1972) 84 minutes
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos

9. Eles nao Usam Black Tie (1981) 115 minutes
Director: Leon Hirszman

10. Inocencia (1969) 115 minutes
Director: Walter Lima Júnior

11. Menino de Engenho (1965) 110 minutes
Director: Walter Lima Junior

12. Morte e Vida Severina & Quincas Berro D'Água (1980-2)
Director: Walter Avancini

13. O Fio Da Memória (1991) 115 minutes
Director: Eduardo Coutinho

14. O Grande Mentecapto: História de Fernando Sabino (1989) 101 minutes
Director: Oswaldo Caldeira

15. O Retrato de um Século (1992) 13 minutes, Two (2) video copies
Director: Roberto Moreira

16. O Seminarista
Director: Geraldo Santos Pereira

17. Obeijo No Asfalto 80 minutes
Director: Bruno Barreto

18. Opera do Malandro (1985) 100 minutes
Director: Ruy Guerra

19. Parahyba (1983) 87 minutes
Director: Tizuka Yamasaki

20. Rei do Rio 107 minutes
Director: Fábio Barreto

21. Sao Bernardo 113 minutes
Director: Leon Hirszman

22. Um Anjo Mau (1971) 107 minutes
Director: Roberto Santos

23. Vidas Secas (1963) 103 minutes
Director: Nélson Pereira dos Santos

24. Xica da Silva 107 minutes
Director: Cacá Diegues

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Near Eastern Studies Films

1. The Armenian Case
2. An Artist's Life
3. Ataturk: The Father of Modern Turkey
4. Between Two Mansions
5. The City Victorious
6. The Civilization of Mesopotamia
7. The Deserted Village
8. Dreams and Rituals
9. El Sebou': Egyptian Ritual Birth
10. The Eternal Flame
11. The Fall of Constantinpole
12. Fatimids: Egypt and North Africa
13. Gaza Ghetto
14. Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
15. The Great Sophy
16. Hamsin
17. Il-Khanids and Timurids in Iran
18. Impact of the West
19. In the Name of Allah
20. An Intimate Story
21. Invaders and Converts
22. Islam
23. King for a Day
24. Kings and Pirates
25. Master Musicians of Jahjouka
26. My Michael
27. The Petrodollar Coast
28. The Power of the Word
29. Saljuqs: The First Turkish Era
30. Saudi Arabia: The Kingdom
31. Saudi Arabia: Oil, Money and Politics
32. Saudi Arabia: The Race with Time
33. Saudi Arabia Today
34. A Sea of Conflict
35. Shahsavan Nomads of Iran
36. Strangers in a Promised Land
37. The Sudden Empire
38. The Sufi Way: Islamic Mysticism
39. Sun, Sand and Sea
40. Tales from the Book of Kings
41. Temple Priests and Civil Servants
42. The Temptation of Power
43. Turkey: A Nation in Transition
44. Valley of the Kings
45. A Veiled Revolution
46. The Village of the Craftsmen
47. War Generation: Beirut
48. Ways of Faith
49. Woman's Place
50. The Year of the Hyena
51. Yol

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European and Russian Studies Videos

1. Andrei Rublev
From Andrei Tarkovsky, hailed as the greatest Soviet Director since Eisenstein, comes the epic Andrei Rublev, acclaimed as a masterpiece internationally and banned in the director's homeland. It is the dazzling and harrowing tale told with spectacle, beauty and nobility of the famed 15th Century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates works of art. These mesmerizing spiritual odyssey gives an inkling of man's desires and needs that are crushed in times of bloody Tatar raids, religious cruelty and pagan rites, making a profound affirmation of the spirit in the face of awesome adversity. In Russian with English subtitles. Director: Andrei Tarkovsky. Running time: 185 minutes.

2. The Anna Akhmatova File
More than a simple portrait of the major 20th century poet, The Anna Akhmatova File is the moving and powerful examination of a violent century. In this documentary drama -- more engaging that is if it had been fiction -- a sensitive, lyrical and much loved poet, Anna Akhmatova, stands up to the brutal repression of Josef Stalin. Through extraordinary interviews and rare film footage, filmmaker Semeon Aranovitch examines the soul of a contradictory age in which Akhmatova -- whose work went unpublished for 17 ears -- became the conscience of a generation. Her poem "Requiem" became the underground anthem for the millions who suffered under Stalin. This unique encounter, which uses Akhmatova's diaries for text, also included portraits of Ahkmatova's friends and contemporaries -- Boris Pasternak, Cvladmir Mayakovsky, Mikhail Sostchenko. A riveting, unforgettable documentary. In Russian with English subtitles. Director: Semeon Aranovitch. Running time: 65 minutes.

3. Ashes and Diamonds
Ashes and Diamonds is one of the clearest portrayals of a Communist Society ever made. The Conflict between idealism and instinct is revealed in the story of a Polish Resistance fighter who assassinates the wrong man on the last day of World War II. In this superb testament to the destructiveness of political fanaticism, Andrzej Wajda captures all the bitterness and disillusionment felt by the Polish people during the political struggle that followed the war's end. This is a startlingly haunting and fascinating film by a director with a flair for visual paradox and an eye for stunning imagery. In Polish with English subtitles. Director: Andrzej Wajda. Running time: 105 minutes.

4. Crime and Punishment
Lev Kulijanov's supremely authentic translation of Dostoevsky's great novel to the screen with Innokenti Smoktunovsky playing the Police Inspector Profiri and Georgi Taratorkin as the impoverished student-mirderer Raskolnikov. Perhaps he best performance, however, belongs to Tatyana Bedova as Sonia, the beautiful woman with the power of redemption. In Russian with English subtitles. Director: Lev Kulijanov. Running time 220 minutes.

5. Earth
One of the undisputed masterpieces of the cinema, no single viewing of Earth will ever reveal all of its poetic brilliance. The third in a triptych of films by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko (after Zvenigora in 1927 and Arsenal in 1928), Earth is strikingly simple in plot. On the eve of the collectivization in the Ukraine, an old farmer dies peacefully in bed. His grandson Vasil has a new vision -- the village council -- will buy a tractor to be shared among the farmers. Struggling against superstition, Vasil is ultimately the victim of a tragic murder, but the dawn brings forth a new life and the promise of prosperity to the poor village. The story itself is secondary to the visually stunning and incredibly moving images that Dovzhenko creates. His love for the Ukrainian people and land intoxicates the viewer with the sensual splendors that fill the screen. In Ukrainian with English subtitles. Director: Alexander Dovzhenko. Running time: 69 minutes

6. Frontline: Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo
Young and in love, they might have had a long romantic life together -- had they not lived in Sarajevo. Admira Ismic and Bosko Brckic die in each other's arms on a bridge in Sarajevo, just yards from freedom. She was Muslim, he was Serbian. Frontline tells their poignant and painful story. This program contains graphic language and scenes and descriptions of violence. Viewer discretion is advised. Running time: 85 minutes.

7. The Inspector General
Gogol's famous play, performed by members of the Moscow Art Theatre, filmed by Vladmir Petrov. Gogol's work is a satire of provincial corruption in Czarist Russia. An entire town mistakes an illiterate worker for the Czar's Inspector General, and the corrupt official panic as they believe the man has come to check up on them. In Russian with English subtitles. Director: Vladmir Petrov. Running time: 130 minutes.

8. I Was Stalin's Bodyguard
For over sixty years, Josef Stalin, one of the most powerful figures in the 20th century, a man who murdered millions, has remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, filmmaker Semeon Aranovitch takes the cloak off this enigmatic figure in his new, acclaimed documentary. The controversial film, which has played to sold-out houses throughout wherever it's been shown, would have been unthinkable even a few years ago. Now, the open policy of glasnost allows us to see into the dark crevices of a demented mind. Aranovitch found the last surviving personal bodyguard of Stalin who began to work for him in the 1930's. I Was Stalin's Bodyguard weaves together unprecedented, first-hand testimony with rare film footage, including Stalin's home movies. What emerges is a singular portrait of a violent and complex era during which Stalin consolidated his power through brutal repression and yet led the Soviet Union to victory in World War II. I Was Stalin's Bodyguard is as involving as a first-rate thriller. What makes it all the more powerful is the fact that everything is real. In Russian with English subtitles. Director: Semeon Aranovitch. Running time: 73 minutes.

9. A Knife in the Water
Roman Polanski's first directorial effort vividly reveals his flair for character revelation and wit. The absorbing drama grows out of the tensions created when a couple, off for a sailing weekend, pick up a student hitchhiker. Middle-aged cocksureness, arrogance and incomprehension versus teenage revolt, with the young woman as a sort of arbiter, is the theme of this brilliant piece of cinematic storytelling. The ironic ending is driven home with Polanski inventiveness and style. A must see movie. In Polish with English subtitles. Director: Roman Polanski. Running time: 95 minutes.

10. The Kremlin: Inside the Hallowed Halls of Soviet Russia
The heart of Soviet Russia, the center of the Communist World is embodied in the Kremlin. Now for the first time ever, an American film crew is granted permission to enter and discover the rich treasures and history of the government and system whose ideology has swept half the modern world. From it's early beginnings to it's present base of power, this fascinating look at the Kremlin comes to us from award winning filmmaker Lucy Jarvis and told through actual Kremlin officials. The Kremlin won the Emmy Award for outstanding programming and the prestigious Gold Mike Award. Directory: Lucy Jarvis. Running time: approx. 60 minutes

11. Little Vera
The most controversial Russian film ever produced! Natalya Negoda stars as Vera, a sullen, sultry woman who's torn between her brooding lover and her bitter parents in this smoldering drama. The first film to celebrate Russia's new "open society," Little Vera is a daring look at a world of simmering sensuality and brutal candor. In Russian with English subtitles. Director: Vasily Pichul. Running time: 110 minutes.

12. Oblomov
Oblomov lies in bed, pondering one vital earth-shattering question: Should he get up? Thus we meet one of the greatest creations in all Russian literature -- Oblomov, good-natured and indolent, with the mind of a reasonable man and the ambition of a giant sloth, wearily reclining while a procession of visitors pleads with him to change his ways. We are drawn to this strange figure in the same way as is the energetic Stolz or the beautiful and vivacious Olga. For Oblomov's idiosyncrasies are universal... and "Oblomovism" knows no class, no era, no country; it finds a home in every human heart. In Russian with English subtitles. Director: Nikita Mikhalkov. Running time: 134 minutes

13. Oratorio for Prague
One of the most powerful documentaries ever made and a unique document of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Oratorio for Prague "is a film so moving that one is near tears from the first movement after the credits appear. The movie began as a documentary about the liberalization of Czechoslovakia and then simply continued when the Russian tanks moved in," wrote Renata Adler in The New York Times. The only film record of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the raw footage for this film, when broadcasted by television, was seen by more than 600 million people, and became the first information that the Soviet Army has not been "invited" in. The film also includes never-before-seen scenes from the Prague Spring before the invasion. "The movie is shot in a style so poetic an d gentle that the humanism and generosity of spirit, which seemed about to radiate from Alexander Dubcek and Czechoslovakia into the world, is there intact... The whole film is marked with the restraint and beauty of Jan Nemec's style." (NY Times) Director: Jan Nemec. Running time: 26 minutes.

14. Out of the Silence: Fighting for Human Rights
When it comes to human rights, the odds have always favored the abusers. This film is about changing the odds. It is a story of victory, tragedy and hope. A testament to the courage of those who struggle to defend their human rights. Director: Chuck Olin. Running time: 53 minutes.

15. Peter the First
A lavish, spectacular production, the first part covers the early years of the reign of Peter the First of Russia. Part Two is the conclusion. In Russian with English subtitles. Director: Vladmir Petrov. Running time: Part One - 102 minutes, Part Two - 100 minutes.

16. The Sea Gull
A sensitive, exquisitely acted version of Chekhov's great play, set in provincial Russia, a penetrating study of the languid melancholia of the residents of an isolated country estate. With Alla Demidova, Lyudmilla Savalyeva, Yuri Yakolev. In Russian with English subtitles. Director Yuri Karasik. Running time: 99 minutes

17. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestor (Wild Horses of Fire)
A sensuous panorama of starling intensity, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is the tragic tale of star-crossed lovers separated by a family feud. Sergei Parajanov, a persecuted filmmaker whose subsequent works were banned, interweaves dazzling visual imagery with a hypnotic musical score to tell the heartbreaking story of Ivan and Marichka, whose love blooms, only to die in the remote Carpathian Mountains of medieval Russia. Parajanov utilizes unreal colors, inventive camera angles and influences from experimental films, cinema-verite documentaries, the New Wave, and Japanese cinema for his powerful impressionistic treatment of a Carpathian legend. A uniquely magical vision that captures the soul of a people Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors created a sensation all over the world. In Ukrainian with English subtitles. Director: Sergei Parajanov. Running time: 99 minutes.

18. The Shop on Main Street
The first Czechoslovakian film to win an Academy Award translates the horrors of the Natzi Occupation into simplest of human terms. Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos combine pathos with humor to tell the heartbreaking story of the friendship that develops between an elderly, hard-of-hearing Jewish woman who own a button shop and the good-natured carpenter appointed by the Nazis as her Aryan controller. Renowned start of the Polish theater Ida Kaminska received an Oscar nomination for her remarkable portrayal of the frail old woman who fails to understand that she is no longer in charge of her humble shop - or her destiny. Josef Kroner costars as the gentle man who is ultimately forced to choose between protecting his helpless friend from her persecutors and saving his own skin. As timely today as when it was first released, The Shop on Main Street, addresses the complex issue of moral responsibility while illuminating the tragedy of racism. In Czech with English subtitles. Director: Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos. Running time: 128 minutes.

19. Sol'aris
The release of this remarkable science fiction film marked a milestone in Soviet cinema, and a distinct change of pace for Andrei Tarovsky, whose previous film was the controversial 15th century epic Andrei Rublev. Sol'aris, adapted from the science fiction novel by the respected Polish writer Stanislas Lemm, is one of those rare screen works which improves upon and deepens its literary source. The story deals with a series of expeditions to the planet Sol'aris - closely examining the ways the various earth scientists there interact among themselves and, more importantly, the ways in which they interact with each other's memories. "I find it one of the most original, most poetic, most beautifully paced science-fiction movies I've ever seen." (Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice). In Russian with Russian subtitles. Director: Andrei Tarovsky. Running time: 167 minutes.

20. War and Peace
Everything about this film of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel is of staggering dimension. Compared to the statistics of "War and Peace,: such conventional Hollywood terminology as "gigantic," "stupendous," and "enormous" must be translated to mean minuscule. Never in the history of film has there been a feature encompassing so much on so many levels. With a production budget cost of $100,000,000, there is no other contender for the claim that this is the most expensive motion picture ever made. It took no less than five years of active and concentrated production to complete "War and Peace." The picture was shot entirely in Russia and no picture has ever demanded more time and effort. By current inflationary standards, it has been estimated that a movie of this cope would cost Hollywood a half billion dollars to make today -- an impossible task! Never before has the phrase "cast of thousands" been so meaningful. In the staging on one battle scene alone, 120,000 soldiers were employed. The enormity of "War and Peace" can only be hinted at with the use of statistics -- 173 outdoor sets, over 100 indoor sets. It has been estimated that enough sets were constructed to supply the need of 15 ordinary full-length feature films. Props, including paintings, art treasures, weapons and books were borrowed from over 40 Russian Museums and libraries. It took 47 different businesses and factories working full time for five years to supply the clothing and equipment used in the picture. In addition to the military uniforms of many nationalities, including Russian, French Austrian, Italian and Polish, there were over 2000 separate and distinct civilian costumes, covering all strata of Russian society form the Tsar to peasant. The armed forces used 7000 swords and daggers, 16,600 hand grenades, 6600 smoke bombs, 4500 fuses, 160 artillery pieces, 120 wagons, 52 tons of smoke compound and 23 tons of gunpowder. The flame and smoke effects for the three major battle sequences consumes over 105,000 tones of kerosene. Director Sergei Bondarchuk's stress on authenticity shows up throughout the picture. No detail is too small to come under his personal scrutiny and that of his crew. In discussing the monumental task of turning "the greatest novel ever written" into a film, director Bondarchuk remarked that numerous approaches had been considered. "Our desire was always to convey that Tolstoy wanted to say with the utmost fullness and consistency," he said. "We have tried to involve the spectator in the events on the screen, to make him experience what Tolstoy's characters experienced and the atmosphere in which they lived. Dubbed in English. Director Sergei Bondarchuk. Running time: 6 hours.

21. The Wedding
Drama of Polish destiny shown a movie by Andrzej Wajda. Film based on drama by Stanislaw Wyspianski, shows a wedding of peasant's daughter with a poet. The Wedding is a deeply moving story that has been seen to be really appreciated. In Polish with English subtitles. Director: Andrzej Wajda. Running time: 103 minutes.

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Coordinators for the SOCCIS Film Collection
UCLA Instructional Media Library
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