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For Soviet Filmmakers, There Was No Glory in War
In contrast with Hollywoodâs 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 Tarkovskyâs Ivan s Childhood (1963). Photo: Criterion Collection
History27/Jun/2021
On New Yearâs 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 theyâd change their hair colour; others thought theyâd get married or divorced.
مصطفى محمد غريب: الشاخص في الساحة الحمراء* akhbaar.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from akhbaar.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
China Bestsellers for March: Financial Savvy for Kids
The children’s book bestseller list in China is currently led by the German financial coach Bodo Schäfer’s widely translated ‘A Dog Named Money.’
A young cyclist leads the way in Shanghai during the early stages of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, in April 2020. Image – iStockphoto: Robert Way
Financial Advice for Kids
In our look at China’s bestsellers in March, we’re making a change to bring you Beijing OpenBook’s rankings on the Chinese market’s charting children’s books.
Having looked at illustrated books
per se for several months, we’ve found that illustrated work is so concentrated in books for young readers (as happens in many other markets, too) that there’s more to be gained from surveying the children’s book rankings, which will include both illustrated and unillustrated work for younger readers.