Crippled secret

In the late Soviet cinema the Western world was the territory that attracting, menacing, and as a rule — that and another together. It was the invented country which is not giving in to the image by means of the Soviet motion picture art — and at the same time appealing to it. "Nostalgia", 1983 Photos: TASS Mary Evans / information agency "ITAR-TASS" When the speech comes about the relations of the Soviet cinema and the Western world, at once there are two plots — challenging each other and intertwining. The first — narrativ oppositions, promotion and counter-propagandas, suspicions and exposures. The second — narrativ mutual influences and vdokhnoveniye, delights and obsessiya...