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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>Video Review <font size="4"><br>Masterworks of Soviet Cinema</font> <br><i>Oblomov</i>, <i>The Color of Pomegranates</i>, <i>Siberiade</i>, and <i>The Mirror</i> <br>by David Gurevich</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p><font size="3" face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"><br><font size="6" color="#FF0000"><b>I</b></font>n a sense, the lifetime of the Soviet Union is roughly comparable to that of a person. The Lenin Years: sowing wild oats, breaking heads, musings on the choice of the right path. The Stalin Years: hard work, building the framework… breaking <i>a lot</i> of heads (while traveling on the chosen path). The Khruschev Years: a mini-middle-age crisis, musings of the wisdom of choice. The Brezhnev Years: settling into the comfortable retirement, living off the IRA (I mean, KGB) savings… commonly referred to as The Stagnation Period. The Andropov Interlude, too brief to merit a label; the Chernenko Moment of all-consuming senility; finally, the Gorbachev Years, with one organ transplant after another, until Yeltsin and Co, like a hard-hearted HMO, refuse to foot any more bills. <p><a href="sovietcinema-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>