Moscow Film Festival 1987

Aleksandr Askoldov: Komissar / The Commissar (SU 1967), with Vasili Shukshin (the Commandant) and Nonna Mordjukova (the Commissar). The first screening of the most famous of the Thaw era films shelved during Brezhnev and released during Glasnost. Black and white in Sovscope. Please click on the image to enlarge it.

5 July 1987  Night train from Helsinki to Moscow ("Leo Tolstoi").
6 July 1987  Hotel Rossija.
6 July 1987  Moscow Film Festival Opening Ceremony, Tsentralnyi Festivalnyi Zal
6 July 1987  Zabytaja melodija dlja fleity / Unohtunut sävelmä huilulle / Forgotten Tune for the Flute (SU 1987). D: Eldar Rjazanov. Opening gala film, Tsentralnyi Festivalnyi Zal
7 July 1987  The morning screening of Gleb Panfilov's V ogne broda njet has been postponed.
7 July 1987  Monanieba / Pokajanie / Repentance (SU-GE 1984). D: Tengiz Abuladze. Russian language version of the Georgian film. Kino Rybok. This key Glasnost film had its international festival premiere in Cannes 1987. In the USSR it had been in limited release in Georgia and since 1986 in Moscow.
7 July 1987  V ogne broda njet / No Ford in the Fire (SU 1967). D: Gleb Panfilov. Black and white in Sovscope. (In Finland we have a 35 mm tv print in Academy). A revelation of the Glasnost.
8 July 1987  Сүйүүнүн Көркү / Махабат дастаны / Mirazhi ljubvi / [Mirages of Love] (SU-KG/SY 1987). D: Tolomush Okejev. Kino Rynok
8 July 1987  Katok i skripka / Höyryjyrä ja viulu (SU 1961). D: Andrei Tarkovski. Oktjabr
8 July 1987  Tempo di viaggio / Voyage in Time (tvm, IT 1983). D: Tonino Guerra, Andrei Tarkovski. Oktjabr
9 July 1987  A visit to Gosfilmofond: Director General Mark Strotshkov.
9 July 1987  Moi ljubimyi kloun / My Favourite Clown (SU 1987). D: Juri Kushnerjov. Kino Rynok
9 July 1987  Zavtra byla voina / Ja huomenna syttyi sota / Tomorrow There Was War (SU 1987). D: Juri Kara. Kino Rynok
9 July 1987  Самотня жінка бажає познайомитися... / Odinokaja zhenshtshina zhelajet poznakomitsja / Yksinäinen nainen etsii elämäntoveria / Lonely Woman Seeks Lifetime Companion (SU-UA 1987). D: Vjatsheslav Krishtofovitsh. Kino Rynok
10 July 1987  Kin-Dza-Dza! (SU 1986). D: Georgi Danelia. Kino Rynok
10 July 1987  Cronaca di una morte annunciata / Kuulutetun kuoleman kronikka / Chronicle of a Death Foretold (IT/FR/CO 1987). D: Francesco Rosi. Tsentranlnyi Festivalnyi Zal
10 July 1987 14.00 At Kino Illusion, Mark Strotshkov introduces us to Volodja Solovjev
10 July 1987  Varjoja paratiisissa (FI 1987). D: Aki Kaurismäki. Tsentralnyi Festivalnyi Zal
11 July 1987  Sovexportfilm - Juri Kolosov - 3 films - Mark Strotshkov
11 July 1987  11.30 Oci ciornie / Mustat silmät / Dark Eyes (IT/SU 1987). D: Nikita Mihalkov. Tsentralnyi Festivalnyi Zal
11 July 1987  Pljumbum, ili opasnaja igra / Plumbum, Or Dangerous Game / Plumbum - vaarallista peliä / Vaarallinen leikki (SU 1987). D: Vadim Abdrashitov. Kino Rynok
11 July 1987 18.00  Komissar / Komissaari / The Commissar (SU 1967). D: Aleksandr Askoldov. Dom Kino. The first public (or semi-public) screening of the most startling discovery of the shelved films revealed during Glasnost. Standing room only. I was among those standing all the way, as if in ovation.
11 July 1987  11.00 Tour of the city, including the Novodevitshy Cemetery, we see the graves of Shukshin, Molotov, Hrushtshov and Nadezhda Allilujeva among others.
11-12 July 1987  Night train to Helsinki ("Leo Tolstoi").