The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents:
Wild East: The Best of Soviet Action Films
February 11-17
"Unlike the Red Westerns of the American Wild West, Soviet Easterns usually took place on the eastern steppes of the USSR, especially during the Russian Revolution or following the Civil War. Many of the Easterns use similar methods as the American Western to dramatize the Civil War in Central Asia in the 1920s and 30s, when the Red Army fought against Islamic Turkic basmachi rebels. The mountains of Kopetdag can be seen as an equivalent to Monument Valley and Sir Darya River as the Rio Grande. Add the gun-slinging ethos, horse-riding pioneers of a sort (though often ideological in this case), the bounty hunter traversing difficult terrain with outlaw in tow, and railroading and taming the wild frontier, and you have a generic mirror image of the American genre. Intriguingly, one possible influence on these Soviet filmmakers may have been the screenings of Serge Leone’s For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly at the Moscow international film festival in 1969.
Seagull Films presents in collaboration with Mosfilm and Mardjani Foundation. Curated by Alla Verlotsky and Sergey Lavrentyev. Special thanks to Karen Shakhnazarov and Richard Pena."
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