Le réel comme excès.
Le cinéma soviétique et postsoviétique de 1970 à nos jours
Edition : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2026
ISSN 19554893
Langue : French
Period :
1970 - 2026
From the Soviet era to the present day, Soviet and then Russian filmmakers have sought to portray reality as excessive. With waking nightmares and a jumble of images and sounds that overwhelm both the viewer and the characters, these films shed light on the relationship with history in this region and its traumatic memories of war and repression.
From Andrei Tarkovsky to Ilya Khrzhanovsky, via Guerman, Klimov, Kanevski, Rogozhkin and others, this research explores a unique lineage of filmmakers. They all share the same attention to realistic detail and the desire to achieve extreme authenticity in their reconstructions of the historical past. The result: films that resemble waking nightmares, saturating the viewer's perception and overwhelming the senses as much as the characters' intelligence. These works do not fall within the traditional historical fiction genre, which aims to make history more accessible, nor do they belong to the documentary genre. The book offers an in-depth analysis, revealing their methods, aesthetics, cross-influences, and the literary and artistic soil that nourished their emergence. These films allow us to see and feel the relationship to history in Russia, haunted by the traumatic memory of wars and repression.
