Film/Video CINEMA OF THE SPIRIT: ALEXANDER SOKUROV SONATA FOR HITLER MOSCOW ELEGY WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30, 2002, 8 PM $7 ($5 WALKER MEMBERS) AUDITORIUM

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SONATA FOR HITLER
Instead of a didactic World War II documentary, Sokurov takes a lyrical approach to the era's blind obedience to dictatorship. Sokurov creates a montage of images such as Hitler seemingly levitating through the crowd as he stands in his jeep. Sokurov doesn't question how such fascist states develop but suggests that they form all too easily, using a playful sound track and suggesting an unspoken connection to his own country's relation to Stalin. 1979-1989, Russia, video (original format 35mm), in Russian with English subtitles, 47 minutes.

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ORIENTAL ELEGY
Sokurov describes this film as "a subjective perception of the personality of the great filmmaker [Andrei Tarkovsky] and his destiny in the context of history. . . . [O]ur task was to create a special human approach toward the memory and the personality of Tarkovsky. . . . We are speaking only about what he has left in his Motherland, and what was going on during those years in the West, where he had had to work."1986-1989, Russia, video (original format 35mm), in Russian with English subtitles, 88 minutes.