Amherst College Department of Russian presents
Spring 2022 Film Series
Thursdays at 4:30 and 8:00 PM
Keefe Campus Center Theater, Amherst College
All films with English subtitles!
February 17
Arrythmia • Аритми́я
dir. Boris Khlebnikov • 2017 • 116 min.
A dedicated paramedic struggles to make time for his wife, who is fed up with him caring more about his patients than about her.
March 3 - SCREENING POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
The Geographer Drank His Globe Away • Географ глобус пропил
dir. Aleksandr Veledinskiy • 2013 • 120 min.
To make ends meet, an unemployed biologist takes a job as a geography teacher in a local secondary school and, as he battles a midlife crisis of his own, tries to find ways to connect to the teenagers whose lives are complicated in both usual and unusual ways.
April 7 - SCREENING POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Country of the Deaf • Страна глухих
dir. Valeriy Todorovsky • 1998 • 105 min.
Country of the Deaf is about an unusual relationship between two women, one of them a deaf-mute dancer and the other on the run from the mafia. Yaya, the deaf girl, offers to hide Rita whose boyfriend, Alyosha owes gambling debts to the mafia, but in return she wants her to leave the young man and run off with her to an imaginary paradise where material values do not exist.
May 5 - SCREENING POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Two Days • Два дня
dir. Avdotya Smirnova • 2011 • 90 min.
Pyotr Drozdov, a high-ranking government official from Moscow, is summoned by the local governor to a provincial museum of a half-forgotten classical writer.