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CRITICS' CHOICE, Page 3A SOVIET SAMPLER
ART
MIKHAIL NESTEROV, Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow. Works of art
-- some never before exhibited -- by Russian master Mikhail
Nesterov (1862-1942), from the Tretyakov Gallery and Moscow private
collections. Included is his Russia, the Soul of the People,
symbolic of Russia's historical spiritual quest, depicting the
religious philosopher Vladimir Solovyov and Leo Tolstoy walking
along the banks of the Volga among multitudes of Russian people of
different epochs.
PYOTR BELOV, Tverskoi Boulevard 11, Moscow. Twenty-two
allegorical works about Stalin's reign of terror, by the theater
artist Pyotr Belov (1929-88). Among the most damning: one
portraying antlike columns of Gulag prisoners emerging from a pack
of Belomor cigarettes -- a reference to the forced labor that built
the Belomor canal -- and another showing Stalin up to his boots in
a sea of dandelions imprinted with the faces of his victims.
MOVIES
LONELY WOMAN SEARCHING FOR A LIFE COMPANION. Preferably a
single Moscow male, but not this one: he insults, robs, then
leeches on the lonely 43-year-old who placed the ad. Director
Vyacheslav Krishtofovich locates Soviet malaise in this wry fable
of a modern Soviet woman desperately seeking Comrade Right.
PAIN. Director Sergei Lukyanchikov's critical documentary on
the Afghanistan war. In one of the most striking scenes, a veteran
who lost an arm asks, "If (the Afghans) came here to help us `build
socialism,' how would we react?" Answering his own question, he
admits, "They hated us."
CONFESSION. A CHRONICLE OF ALIENATION. A shocking and realistic
documentary by director Georgi Gavrilov about a young high school
dropout and drug addict, the grandson of a labor-camp officer, who
searches for identity in an apathetic society.
NOSTALGHIA. A Russian writer seeks a cure that will end the
pain of his nostalgia, with tragic results, in the film by director
Andrei Tarkovsky starring Oleg Yankovsky. A Soviet-Italian
co-production.
BOOKS
LIFE AND DESTINY by Vasili Grossman (Knizhnaya Palata, 1988).
An epic novel about the Battle of Stalingrad that some call the
20th century's War and Peace. Completed in the 1960s, the book was
suppressed during Khrushchev's regime for daring to agonize over
the conflict between personal freedom and Communism.
THE NIGHT WATCH by Mikhail Kurayev (Novy Mir, No. 2, 1989). A
fascinating journey inside the mind of a fictional secret
policeman, Comrade Polubolotov, who helped carry out the murderous
Stalinist purges of the 1930s but insists he was merely "a
soldier."
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell (Rodnik, Riga, Nos. 3-6, 1989).
The famous 1945 critique of totalitarianism sold out immediately.
STORIES by Oleg Yermakov (Znamya, No. 3, 1989). Two short
stories by a 28-year-old veteran of the Afghan conflict sketch a
vivid and unromanticized picture of war that is reminiscent of
Michael Herr's Dispatches, a book about American G.I.s in Viet Nam.
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE edited by Yuri Afanasayev (Progress
Publishers, 1988). The definitive, argument-provoking collection
of essays by such high priests of perestroika as Andrei Sakharov,
economist Tatyana Zaslavskaya and Novy Mir editor in chief Sergei
Zalygin.
TELEVISION
JUST A COUPLE OF WORDS IN HONOR OF MR. DE MOLIERE. First
produced 16 years ago by Anatoli Efros, this program based on
Mikhail Bulgakov's works fell into disfavor because Culture
Ministry bureaucrats disapproved of director Efros' and leading
actor Yuri Lyubimov's liberal views.
TELEVISION ACQUAINTANCE. Backstage squabbling at the Bolshoi:
intrepid Estonian journalist Urmas Ott gets to the bottom of it
during a revealing 90-minute interview with prima ballerina Maya
Plisetskaya.
PLENUM INFORMATION BROADCAST. What goes on behind closed doors
when the Communist Party Central Committee holds its plenary
sessions? A realistic, if edited, glimpse of glasnost in action.
THEATER
THE MAIDS, Satirikon Theater, Moscow. In drag and wearing
extravagant eye makeup, Konstantin Raikin stars in a rare Russian
version of Jean Genet's sadomasochistic melodrama, directed by
Roman Viktyuk.
STARS IN THE MORNING SKY, Contemporary Theater, Moscow. Galina
Volchek directs a superbly acted indictment of the Brezhnev years,
a play depicting how drunks, prostitutes and madmen were swept off
the streets of Moscow and into exile as Soviet authorities polished
up the capital on the eve of the 1980 Olympic Games.
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, Moscow Theater for Young Spectators.
Soviet audiences are no longer shocked by Dostoyevsky's long-banned
philosophical ramble or, for that matter, by the full frontal
nudity staged by director Kama Ginkas.