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Cinema: A Public Affair

Tatiana Brandrup

In 1989, as the Soviet Union was collapsing and giving rise to the perestroika reform movement, Russian film historian Naum Kleiman founded the Moscow State Central Cinema Museum. Cinema: A Public Affair charts the rise and fall of the museum under Kleiman’s legendary leadership.

DIRECTOR
Tatiana Brandrup
YEAR
2015
COUNTRY
Germany
RUNTIME
104 minutes
LANGUAGE
Russian and German with English subtitles
FORMAT
DCP

In 1989, as the Soviet Union was collapsing and giving rise to the perestroika reform movement, Russian film historian Naum Kleiman founded the Moscow State Central Cinema Museum. Within a decade, the museum accrued more than 150,000 titles in its electronic catalog and became a haven for artistic and intellectual discourse in the new political era. It was a tragic and symbolic gesture, then, when the cultural ministry scandalously closed the museum and dismissed Kleiman amid nationwide censorship. Tatiana Brandrup’s new documentary charts the rise and fall of the museum under Kleiman’s legendary leadership.

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