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For Soviet Filmmakers, There Was No Glory in War
In contrast with Hollywood’s approach to World War II, Soviet filmmakers avoided triumphalist images of warfare, depicting the conflict as a brutal necessity that should never be repeated.
Still from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Ivan s Childhood (1963). Photo: Criterion Collection
History27/Jun/2021
On New Year’s Eve 1940, my great-grandfather Aleksandr Afinogenov held a dinner party at his Moscow apartment. At one point the guests, probably writers and other literary intellectuals, played a game: writing on sheets of paper, they tried to predict what the coming year would be like. Some of them thought they’d change their hair colour; others thought they’d get married or divorced. ....

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