Film Series: Classics of Soviet Cinema, 1927 - 1938

February 8 
Man with a Movie Camera 
Director: Dziga Vertov 
Running time: 68 minutes
Silent with music.
Introduction by Usha Iyer, Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies, Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University

Before each film screening the speaker will briefly introduce the film and filmmaker. After the screening, the speaker will invite and answer questions from the audience. This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Crown under the Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution, on view in the Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery at Cantor Arts Center and at the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion from October 18, 2017 - March 4, 2018. 

OTHER FILMS IN THE SERIES:
January 25 
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) 
Director: Sergei Eisenstein 
Running time: 95 minutes 
Silent with music. English title cards.
Introduction by Karla Oeler,  Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University

February 1 
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty 
Director: Esfir Shub 
Running time: 90 minutes
Silent with music.
Introduction by Srdan Keca, Assistant Professor, Documentary Film MFA Program, Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University

February 15 
Lenin in October 
Directors: Mikhail Romm and Dmitri Vasilyev 
Running time: 93 minutes
Russian language with English subtitles. 
Introduction by Bertrand Patenaude, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University