Soviet Kyrgyzstan as a Case Study: A Place of Tension between the Soviet Center and National Identity

• In Event: Memory and Migration: Screen Visions of Past and Future Lives in Russian and Central Asian Cinema

Abstract

The presentation will examine two cases of first feature films made by two non-Kyrgyz directors in Soviet Kyrgyzstan after graduating from VGIK: Heat by Larisa Shepitko and First Teacher by Andrey Konchalovsky. The analysis of accounts by the collaborators and archival documents will enable us to formulate hypotheses about the difference in how the two films were received in Kyrgyzstan.

Author

• Eugenie Zvonkine, U of Paris 8 (France)