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SUMMARY:July Rain (1966): Ksenia Golubovich on Marlen Khutsiev’s Masterp
 iece - Ksenia Golubovich 
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CONTACT:Ksenia Afonina
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the centenary of Marlen Khutsiev\, a majo
 r figure of Soviet cinema\, with cultural scholar Ksenia Golubovich\, who 
 will speak about one of his most acclaimed films\, July Rain (1966).\n\nMa
 rlen Khutsiev (1925–2019) was a classic of Soviet film and a VGIK gradua
 te who later headed its Department of Feature Film Directing. His best-kno
 wn works include Spring on Zarechnaya Street\, I Am Twenty\, and July Rain
 . In 1966 he was among the signatories of the “Letter of the Twenty-Five
 ” opposing the rehabilitation of Stalin.\n\nJuly Rain is a landmark of 1
 960s Soviet cinema. Influenced by the French New Wave and Italian Neoreali
 sm\, it explores existential crisis\, generational conflict\, conformity\,
  and the possibility of personal growth. Shot in a style that blends newsr
 eel with fiction\, the film offers a nuanced portrait of Soviet social lif
 e—its tensions\, its silences—structured almost like a jazz compositio
 n. At its centre is a single moment: a woman’s quiet but decisive “no.
 ”\n\n\nWhen: Thursday\, 11 December\, 18:30-20:00 (GMT)\n\nLanguage: Eng
 lish\n\nFormat: Online via Zoom\n\nTickets: £5 – Standard\; free – Ca
 mRuSS Members\, and Students\n\nAccess to the video recording is included 
 with all ticket purchases\n\nVideo recording only: £5\, free – CamRuSS 
 Members\n\n\nPlease book here\, https://shorturl.at/LbQ4u\n\n\nKsenia Golu
 bovich is a writer\, literary critic\, translator\, and cultural scholar. 
 She holds a PhD in Philology\, specialising in Shakespeare studies and Eng
 lish Modernism. She has translated works by W. B. Yeats\, Bruce Chatwin\, 
 C. S. Peirce\, and Dylan Thomas\, and is the author of books on Olga Sedak
 ova and Merab Mamardashvili. She has taught courses on literature\, art\, 
 and cinema at the Moscow School of New Cinema and chaired the A. M. Pyatig
 orsky Prize for the Philosophical Essay.\n\nPhoto: https://commons.wikimed
 ia.org/wiki/File:Marlen_Khutsiev_01.jpg
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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