PRESS RELEASE FILMS ANNOUNCED FOR KINO KLASSIKA SEASON YOUTH ON THE MARCH! THE RISE OF THE SOVIET NEW WAVE Cult directors Otar Iosseliani and Rachid Naugmanov will open and close the Youth on the March! Season at Regent St Cinema. Internationally acclaimed film critic and journalist Konstantin Shavlovsky will curate. Regent Street Cinema II 2nd May 27 June Acclaimed film curator and cinema critic Konstantin Shavlovsky will curate a 9 film season of classic films of the Soviet New Wave. The films will be screened on original formats or DCPs. They will be introduced by leading directors, film critics and commentators, providing a thrilling insight into the provocative generation of directors who used perestroika to engage with the outside world and create a punk protest cinema that still has resonance today. Rashid Naugmanov, Kira Muratova and Otar Iosseliani are among the latest directors to confirm their involvement in Youth on the March! The rise of the Soviet New Wave. This film season will be London s first ever attempt to trace the antecedents of East European punk at London s most iconic repertory cinema, the Regent St Cinema on Regent St. Otar Iosseliani will open the film season in person with a screening of his Cannes prize winning classic film, Falling Leaves on Wednesday 2nd May. He is Georgia s most celebrated film director, a key member of the Soviet Wave and prize winner of films at Berlin, Venice and
Cannes Film Festivals. The screening of Falling Leaves will be a collaboration with the Georgian London Film Festival and will be followed by a Georgian banquet with some of Georgia s finest chefs at Terriors, Trafalgar Square on 2 nd May. Rashid Naugmanov is widely seen as the leading director in Kazakhstan s 1980s New Wave, with Needle winning prizes in Berlin, Toronto and Sundance. The film starred Victor Tsoi, the Soviet Union s most iconic rock star, who died in a plane crash in 1990. Naugmanov will introduce the film in person on Wednesday 20 June. Kira Muratova is one of the world s leading female filmmakers. Her iconoclastic filmmaking style means her films have been repeatedly banned or censored. Kino Klassika is proud to present this rare opportunity to see Muratova s early masterpiece, Long Goodbye, which was banned as soon as it was released. One of the great film rediscoveries of the perestroika period of the 1980s, this film is long overdue a London screening. The season will take place at Regent St cinema, which is not only London s oldest cinema hall but has a firm commitment to repertory programming and ambitious world cinema. www.kinoklassikafoundation.org/project/youth For more information, images, interviews or press tickets, please contact Florence at florence@kinoklassikafoundation.org CURATOR - Konstantin Shavlovsky Konstantin is Film Editor of the weekly publication, Kommersant Weekend. He has realized a number of interdisciplinary projects including House of Voices in the Museum of Moscow, Alexey Balabanov. Crossroads in the Centre for Art and Music, Em. V. Mayakovsky,. He is the Founder of the cultural and educational platform Order of Words. He is also Deputy Head of the Cinema section of the St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum and a member of the Board of the Guild of Film Experts and Russian film critics. ADDRESS Regent St Cinema 309 Regent St, Marylebone, London W1B 2UW SEASON DATES 2 May 27 June PRESS NIGHT 2 May early start 6.30pm followed by a supra at Terroirs Trafalgar Square BOOKING ONLINE https://www.regentstreetcinema.com/youth-on-the-march/ SCREENING TIMES 7.30pm except for Press Night Otar Iosseliani s Falling Leaves from 6.30pm
TICKETS Buy your tickets at: www.regentstreetcinema.com/youth-on-the-march/ Tickets from 12 PHONE BOOKING 0207 911 5050 SOCIAL MEDIA #youthonthemarch #kinoklassika @kinoklassika TRAILER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnugerfh9yy NOTES TO EDITORS KINO KLASSIKA FOUNDATION Kino Klassika creates programs of restorations, publications, art commissions and events to spotlight Russian language cinema a tradition that remains largely invisible to audiences outside of Russia. We are a UK based charity 1150791. Our trustees are Prof Ian Chirstie, Daniel Jowell QC, Roger Munnings CBE and founding director, actress Justine Waddell. Our patron is Ralph Fiennes. REGENT STREET CINEMA The Regent Street Cinema, just one minute North of Oxford Circus, was re-opened by the University of Westminster in May 2015, reinstating one of the most historic cinemas in Britain to its former grandeur. This unique venue remains dedicated to both engaging with our legacy and ensuring it for future audiences and filmmakers. YOUTH ON THE MARCH! THE RISE OF THE SOVIET NEW WAVE FALLING LEAVES OTAR IOSSELIANI (1966) An idealistic young worker discovers the immoral realities of a state-run wine collective in this complex meditation on factory life, disappearing rural traditions and Georgian history. Introduction by Otar Iosseliani 2 May, 6.30pm WE LL LIVE TIL MONDAY STANISLAV ROSTOTSKY (1968) A bittersweet comedy about a high school history teacher who must choose between his head and his heart: will he abide by the rules of school or give way to his natural warmth of feeling towards fellow teacher, Natalya? 9 May, 7.30pm
LONG GOODBYE KIRA MURATOVA (1971) This little-known masterpiece by Kira Muratova focuses on the rare narrative of a mother s overbearing love for her son. 17 May, 7.30pm WOODPECKERS DON T GET HEADACHES DINARA ASANOVA (1975) Young boy Mukha longs to be taken seriously as an adult and a rock musician. When he falls in love one summer, he begins to hear music everywhere, from the rain to the woodpecker s rattle. 22 May, 7.30pm COURIER KARIN SHAKHNAZAROV (1986) Russia s equivalent of the Breakfast Club follows teenager Ivan as he rebels against tradition, in the exciting new world of Adidas, skate-culture, breakdancing and pop music. 30 May, 7.30pm IS IT EASY TO BE YOUNG? JURIS PODNIEKS (1987) Hailed as one of the most controversial films of the era, this ground-breaking documentary is a portrait of rebellious teenagers growing up under communist rule in Latvia. 7 June, 7.30pm ASSA SERGEI SOLOVEV (1987) The film that brought Russian rock music from the underground into the mainstream, this cult crime classic is the tale of a young nurse, her mafia lover and a young musician. 13 June, 7.30pm THE NEEDLE RASHID NUGMANOV (1988) Part Pulp Fiction, part Betty Blue, Needle charts the attempt of enigmatic drifter Moro, who returns to Almaty to find his ex-girlfriend stuck in the underground world of drugs, mafia and violence. Introduction by Rashid Naugmanov 20 June, 7.30pm LITTLE VERA VASILI PICHUL (1988) The film that shocked Soviet audiences with on-screen nudity for the first time, Little Vera is the portrait of a feisty, mean-minded hellcat who injects chaos into her dull provincial town. 27 June, 7.30pm
Buy your tickets at www.regentstreetcinema.com/youth-on-the-march/ REGENT STREET CINEMA 309 Regent Street, W1B 2UW