Film List – Russian Grad orals (final)
Yale Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Pre-revolutionary:

• Evgeny Bauer: Daydreams, A Child of the Big City
• L. Starewicz: Night before Christmas

1920s:

• Sergei Eisenstein: Strike, Battleship Potemkin, October, Old and New
• Dziga Vertov: Kino-Eye, One Sixth of the World, Man with a Movie Camera
• Yakov Protozanov: Aelita, Queen of Mars
• Vsevolod Pudovkin: Mother, End of St. Petersburg, Storm over Asia
• Lev Kuleshov: By the Law, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
• Abram Room: Bed and Sofa
• Alexander Dovzhenko: Arsenal, Earth
• Esfir Shub: Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
• Kozintsev/Trauberg: The Overcoat, The New Babylon

1930s:

• Sergei Eisenstein: Alexander Nevsky, Bezhin Meadow
• Dziga Vertov: Enthusiasm, Three Songs of Lenin
• Mikhail Kalatozov: Salt for Svanetia
• Viktor Turin: Turksib
• Vsevolod Pudovkin: Deserter
• Abram Room: A Strict Young Man
• Boris Barnet: Outskirts
• Grigori Alexandrov: Happy Guys, The Circus, Volga-Volga
• Bros. Vasiliev: Chapayev
• Mark Donskoi: Childhood of Maxim Gorky
• Aleksandr Ptushko: New Gulliver

1940s:

• Sergei Eisenstein: Ivan the Terrible 1 and 2
• Mikhail Chiaureli: Fall of Berlin
• Konstantin Iudin: A Great Life
• Boris Barnet: The Scout’s Exploit

1950s:

• Khutsiev/Mironer: Spring on Zarechnaia Street
• Mikhail Kalatozov: The Cranes are Flying
• Grigori Chukhrai: Ballad of a Soldier
• Eldar Ryazanov: Carnival Night

1960s:

• Andrei Tarkovsky: Ivan’s Childhood, Andrei Rublev
• Marlen Khutsiev: July Rain
• Kira Muratova: Brief Encounters
• Sergei Paradzhanov: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Color of Pomegranates
• Tengiz Abuladze: The Plea
• Otar Iosseliani: Falling Leaves
• E. Klimov: Welcome, or No Trespassing
• Konchalovsky: Asya’s Happiness

1970s:

• Andrei Tarkovsky: Solaris, Mirror, Stalker
• Aleksei German: Trial on the Road, 20 Days Without War
• Otar Iosseliani: There Lived a Song Thrush
• Larissa Shepitko: The Ascent
• Artavazd Peleshian: The Seasons
• V. Menshov: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
• Y. Norshtein: Tale of Tales

1980s:

• Aleksei German: My Friend Ivan Lapshin
• Kira Muratova: Asthenic Syndrome
• Vasili Pichul’: Little Vera
• Aleksandr Sokurov: Days of Eclipse
• R. Nugmanov: The Needle
• Tengiz Abuladze: Repentance
• Vadim Abdrashitov: Plumbum, or the Dangerous Game

1990s:

• Aleksei German: Khrustalev, My Car
• Petr Lutsik: Okraina
• Balabanov: Brother
• Sergei Bodrov: Prisoner of the Mountains
• Pavel Chukhrai: The Thief
• Sergei Dvortsevoj: Bread Day
• Kira Muratova: Three Stories

2000s:

• Aleksandr Sokurov: Taurus
• Kira Muratova: The Tuner
• Vyagintsev: The Return

Mandatory Criticism:

• Sergei Eisenstein: Montazh, Metod
• Dziga Vertov: Kino-Eye
• Pudovkin: Film Technique
• Kuleshov: Theory of Film
• Taylor and Christie, eds.: The Film Factory
• Jay Leyda: Kino
• J. Woll: Real Images
• Lawton: Kinoglasnost’
• Y. Tsivian: Early Cinema in Russia
• Andrei Tarkovsky: Sculpting in Time