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Soviet & Russian Cinema
From montage theory to the long take as an act of faith: a tradition that treats duration itself as the medium's most serious tool.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.

Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky · 1979

Come and See
Elem Klimov · 1985

Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky · 1966

Battleship Potemkin
Sergei Eisenstein · 1925
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