Cinematheque: Aleksei Guerman
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Moy Drug Ivan Lapshin)
Event Details
Date
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall, Vilas Hall
Description
Soviet Union, 1984, 35mm, 101 min, subtitled.
Heralded as the greatest Soviet film of all time in a national poll of film critics, this movie is itself an inquiry into the nature of legends. A beloved policeman is remembered 50 years later for both his heroism and his involvement in a love triangle. Based on popular stories by Guerman’s father, Lapshin’s life unfolds in a fragmented narrative film scholar Ian Christie deemed “as elaborate as anything in Orson Welles.”
Heralded as the greatest Soviet film of all time in a national poll of film critics, this movie is itself an inquiry into the nature of legends. A beloved policeman is remembered 50 years later for both his heroism and his involvement in a love triangle. Based on popular stories by Guerman’s father, Lapshin’s life unfolds in a fragmented narrative film scholar Ian Christie deemed “as elaborate as anything in Orson Welles.”
Cost
Free
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