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SUMMARY:FIlmmaker Marlen Khutsiev in Conversation:  Not Yet Evening... - M
 arlen Khutsiev (Guild of Russian Film Directors\, Moscow)
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CONTACT:Susan Larsen
DESCRIPTION:Legendary filmmaker MARLEN KHUTSIEV will discuss his career\, 
 from his student years at the All-Union Film Institute in the directing cl
 ass of Ihor Savchenko\, through the Thaw classics--'Spring on Zarechnaia S
 treet' (1957)\, 'I am Twenty' (1964) and 'July Rain' (1966)-- to his curre
 nt work-in-progress\, 'Nevecherniaia' ('Not Yet Evening')\, a film loosely
  based on accounts of meetings and correspondence between Chekhov and Tols
 toy. The presentation will include short extracts from 'Not Yet Evening'. 
 Mr Khutsiev will speak in Russian with consecutive English translation. Th
 is talk is free and open to the public. \n\nMarlen Martynovich Khutsiev wa
 s born in Tbilisi in 1925\, began his filmmaking career in Odessa and has 
 lived in the same Moscow apartment for the last 26 years. His early work w
 as shaped by Soviet filmmakers' discovery of Italian neorealism in the 195
 0s\; his great 1960s films have more in common with the work of Antonioni 
 and Godard. Frequently subject to politically motivated attacks by Soviet 
 authorities\, his films are few in number\, but each an aesthetic and hist
 orical landmark. He recently retired from his post as Head of the Directin
 g Faculty at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography. At age 88 he i
 s still active as a filmmaker and president of the Russian Federation's Gu
 ild of Film Directors. He is also a lively raconteur with many stories to 
 tell about his own films\, as well as his work with filmmakers Ihor Savche
 nko\, Sergei Parajanov\, Andrei Tarkovskii and others.\n\nFor further info
 rmation click "here":http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/news/slavonic/\n\n
LOCATION:Winstanley Theatre\, Trinity College\, Cambridge
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