Category: Arts

Performer: Abe Ellstein’s Orchestra Composer: H. Ellstein Title: Bardichiver Nigun Translation: Bardichev Melody Published: New York, NY : Victor, 1940-02-15. Publisher No: V-9063-B; BS 047207-1 […]

(Courtesy: Doc Productions GmbH)Postscripts from a Landscape of Memory79 min. and 54 min., 35mm / VideoLanguage: German/Yiddish/RussianSubtitles and narration: German or English IntroductionIn the Western […]

(Courtesy: Olga Dzyurbey) Olexander Savitj Yatsuk (1920 – 1986)He had lived and created his works in the time of socialist realism and confirmed himself as […]

Icon “Mother of God of Berdichev”: tinsel, tempera, frame ofmetal and the author’s trade-mark “Nikolay Balmasov” 310 x 270 mm The works, manufactured in Balmasov […]

Courtesy: David Finkle (N.Y.) Kathleen Chalfant in The Last Letter(Photo © Gerry Goodstein) Vasily Grossman was a leading Russian war correspondent during World War II. […]

[“Yidishe Glikn”, directed by Aleksey Granovsky (1925)] TITLE: JEWISH LUCKYEAR: 1925DIR/PROD: Alexander GranovskyCOUNTRY: RussiaLANGUAGE: SILENTTIME: 90 minutes in black and white 35mmSOURCE: National Center for […]

Courtesy: Alla Bossart (21.06.2007)Our date code Askoldova great film directed by “Commissar” under 75 years. 75 years Askoldovu Alexander. Semimythical great film director sent me […]

USSR, Gor’kii Film Studio, 1967 (released 1987)B&W, 105 minutesIn Russian with English subtitlesDirector and Screenwriter: Aleksandr Askol’dovBased on: Vasilii Grossman’s “In the Town of Berdichev”Cinematography: […]

Courtesy: Walter Goodman (July 17th,1988) LEAD: Add ”Commissar” to the remarkable series of Soviet movies that has been finding its way West after many years […]

68 min., 11 r., 2998 m., W.s. Dir.- Alexander Askoldov.Cast: N.Mordukova, R.Bykov, R.Nedashkovskaya, V.Shukshin, L.Volynskaya, O.Koberidze, L.Reutov. For a filmmaker in the United States, “making […]