Russia’s Underground Film Industry (Documentary | Part 3/3)

We went to Russia to learn about “Parallel Cinema“, the 1980s’ experimental film movement that involved violence, surrealism, and a lot of vodka. Watch the rest here! For 60 years, Russian film was dominated by the state-approved imagery of Socialist Realism: stark scenes of the proletariat; working, farming and soldiering. Making movies outside this milieu meant risking life and limb at the hands of the KGB. When the Soviet Union collapsed,