Kino Primer 7: Stalin's Last Days

In this episode of Kino Primer we take a look at the Soviet Cinema of the immediate post-war period. The episode explores trends in Soviet cinema during the late 1940s and the early 1950s, before the death of Joseph Stalin. In particular, this episode introduces the following films:

1943 The Dream / Мечта
1941/1945 Four Hearts / Сердца четырех
1947 Springtime / Весна
1948 The Train Goes East / Поезд идет на Восток
1948 The Ballad of Siberia / Сказание о земле Сибирской
1950 Cossacks of the Kuban / Кубанские казаки
1947 The Village Teacher / Сельская учительница
1946 A Captain at Fifteen / Пятнадцатилетний капитан
1953 Maksimka / Максимка
1949 Encounter at the Elbe / Встреча на Эльбе
1947 Admiral Nakhimov / Адмирал Нахимов
1953 Admiral Ushakov / Адмирал Ушаков
1944 Ivan the Terrible Part 1 / Иван Грозный Часть 1
1946/1958 Ivan the Terrible Part 2 / Иван Грозный Часть 2

Sources (in Russian):
Joseph Stalin, August 9, 1946, speech to the Central Committee of the Communist Party

Sergei Eisenstein, Letter to Kultura i Zhizn, October 20, 1946
(as well as Pudovkin's and others' letters of apology)

Transcript of Stalin (Zhdanov, Molotov) meeting with Eisenstein and Cherkasov
February 26, 1947