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Many countries in Eurasia are known for their cinematic traditions. As economies have recovered after the turbulent 90s, so has production of local cinema and TV. Some of these efforts are even now competing locally with international offerings and even becoming known abroad. More recently, Eurasia has also become known as a software hub generating video games popular the world over.

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January 19, 2023

Leviathan (2014): Learning Russian Through Film

Leviathan (2014; Левиафан) is a powerful film that lives up to its theological title. The film stars well-known actors who participated in director Andrey Zviaginstev’s other pictures, namely Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, and Roman Madyanov. Zviaginstev is known for his landscape-heavy film style in which the sublime seems to play its own character. This can […]

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