Moscow: Showing a Youthful Look to the World

30 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 14-adult

Automatic translation by
Systran

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Order number: 341

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Fluent, lyrical camera work carries us through the stunning buildings and monuments of Baroque nineteenth-century Moscow: Peter the Great's eighteenth-century Arsenal; sculptor Ivan Martos's monuments; Matvei Kazakov's Senate building; the beautiful façades and Triumphal Arch of architect Osip Bove; the breathtaking Bolshoi Theatre, and many more. The program's voice-over informs us of the historic and cultural events to which the ornate forms and pastel colors of Moscow's buildings were the backdrop: wars with Sweden; resistance to Napoleon; the Great Fire of 1737; the lives of writers Pushkin and Gogol...

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Credits -

Director/Script
Vladimir Benidiktov

Art Video International

Also available in Russian

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