RUSSIAN AUDIO AND VIDEO TAPES IN THE ST.LAWRENCE COLLECTION

(List is under perpetual construction: last update 8/16/00)

Request audio and video tapes from the Russian instructor. Borrowed material must be viewed in the Carnegie Language Center. See the Russian instructor for special approval to use tapes elsewhere.

AUDIO TAPES

(* indicates tapes in the instructor's personal collection)

AUDIO TAPES on RUSSIAN CULTURE (in English)

"Can Russia and America be Friends?" (NPR, 1987) Lecturer: Armand Hammer
"Churches in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union" (Dialogue)
"The Church Under Communist Regimes" (Dialogue)
"Life in the USSR" (NPR,1979)
"Most Dangerous Game: Soviet Perspective" (NPR,1983)
"Russians as Ancient Romans" (NPR,1977)
"Soviet Religious Policy" (Dialogue)
"Soviet Songs of Protest" (Dialogue)
"The Soviet Union: The Legacy of Stalin" (Wilson Center)
"State of the Soviet Union" (NPR, 1981)

AUDIO TAPES on RUSSIAN LITERATURE (in English)

"Anna Karenina" (Tolstoy). Lecturer: Nonna D. Wellek (36 min.)
"Book Hunger in the USSR" (Wilson Center: 1984)
"Crime and Punishment" (Dostoevsky) Lecturer: Robert Jackson (45 min.)
"Notes from Underground" (Dostoevsky) Lecturer: Robert Jackson (46 min.)
"Russian Writers" (NPR: 1982)
"Soviet Editor on Glasnost" (NPR: 1987)

AUDIO TAPES from RUSSIAN LITERATURE (in Russian)

"Marriage Proposal" ["Predlozhenie"] (Chekhov)
"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" ["Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha"] (Solzhenitsyn)
"Queen of Spades" ["Pikovaja dama"] (Pushkin)
"Stationmaster" ["Stantsionnyj smotritel'"] (Pushkin)

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VIDEO TAPES

(* indicates tapes in the instructor's personal collection)

VIDEO TAPES - DOCUMENTARIES (in Russian)

"Cathedral" (60 min.) [Kazan Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow]
"Peter the Great" (60 min.) [Personality and era; Nicholas II, Lenin, the people]
"Russia which we lost" (106 min.)
"Tchaikovsky" (60 min.) [His life through his letters and diaries]

VIDEO TAPES - DOCUMENTARIES / TRAVELOGS (in English)

"The Battle of Russia" (83 min.) B/W [Actual footage shot in Leningrad and Stalingrad in WWII.]
"Chekhov" (30 min.)
"Discover Russia" 1990 (National Geographic Society)
"Dostoevsky" (30 min.)
*"Faberge"
*"Faces of Russia" (180 min.) (Parts I-III) (1998)
"From Tsar to Stalin" (93 min.) (MPI Home Video) [Actual footage]
*"The Hermitage" (Parts I, II, III) (1994)
*"Kolyma" (45 min.) (Artisitic License, Inc.)
"Kremlin" (30 min.)
"Lenin" (30 min.)
*"Lenin and Tsar"
"Nicholas and Alexandra" (100 min.) (A&E)
*"Portrait in Blood" (60 min.) (1993) (A&E)
"A Present from the Past - The Soviet Union" (27 min.)(General Tours/Finnair)
"Pushkin" (30 min.)
*"Realms of the Russian Bear" (180 min.) (Parts I-III) (PBS)
*"Rural Russia" (50 min.) (Artisitic License, Inc.)
"Russian Journey" 1987 (60 min.) (Traveloguer Collection)
"Russia's Last Tsar" 1995 (60 min.) (National Geographic Society)
*"Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall" (120 min.)
"St. Petersburg" 1994 (30 min.) (Super Cities)
*"St. Petersburg" 1995 (30 min.) [Nice fly-over shots]
"Tolstoy" (30 min.)
*"Triumph of Faith" (56 min.) (Artistic License, Inc.) [Pilgrimage]
*"Under the Spell of Youth" (1997) (30 min.) (Artistic License, Inc.)
*"Ustinov's Russia" 1986 (180 min.) (CTV) (Parts I-VI)
"Video from Russia"
*"World War II: Frank Capra's The Battle of Russia" (83 min.) [Actual newsreel footage]
*"The Young Catherine" 1991 (120 min.) (TNT)

VIDEO TAPES - FEATURES (in English)

"Dr. Zhivago" (3hrs. 20 min.) [Based on Pasternak's novel]
*"Eugene Onegin" (Opera, based on Pushkin's novel) (Chicago Opera)
*"Inner Circle" (1993) (140 min.) [anti-Stlain movie]
"Inspector General" (with Danny Kaye) [Based loosely on Gogol's play]
"One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" [Based on Solzhenitsyn's novel.]
*"Rasputin" (1996) (90 min.) (HBO)
*"War and Peace" (1968) (6 hrs.) [Dubbed in English]

VIDEO TAPES - FEATURES (in Russian only, unless otherwise noted):

"Again Carnival Night" ["Snova karnaval'naja noch'"]
"Anna Karenina" [Film of the ballet]
"Autumn Marathon" ["Osennij marafon"] (English subtitles)
"The Bad, Good Person" ["Plokhoj xoroshij chelovek"] 1973
"Ballad of a Soldier" ["Ballada o soldate"] (English subtitles. B/W.)
"Balthassar's Feasts" ["Piry Valtasara"] 1991 [Based on Iskander's novel "Sandro of Chegem."]
"Battleship Potemkin" ["Bronenosets Potemkin"] (English subtitles. B/W. U-Matic.)
"The Brothers Karamazov" ["Brat'ja Karamazovy"] 1969 [Based on Dostoevsky's novel]
"Choice" ["Vybor"] 1987 (140 min.)
"City Zero" ["Gorod Zero"] (English subtitles. 84 min.)
"Collection of Cartoons" ["Sbornik Mul'tfil'mov"]
"Crime and Punishment" [Prestuplenie i nakazanie] 1970 (English subtitles. 224 min.) [Based on Dostoevsky's novel.]
"The Dame of Spades." ["Pikovaja dama"][Based on Pushkin's story]
"DerSu Uzala" 1988 (English subtitles. 84 min.)
"Doctor Oh-it-Hurts" ["Doktor Ajbolit"]
"Dubrovsky" ["Dubrovskij"] 1988 (Parts 1 and 2)
"Farewell" ["Proshchanie"] 1983 [Based on the novel by V. Rasputin]
"Fate of a Man" ["Sud'ba cheloveka"] (English subtitles. B/W.)
"Garage" ["Garazh"]
"Ilf & Petrov on the Tram" ["Fel'tony...."] 1967 (B/W)
"Inspector General" ["Revizor"] (English subtitles. B/W.) [Based on Gogol's play.]
"Irony of Fate" ["Ironija sud'by"]
"Jazzmen" ["My iz dzhaza"] (English subtitles)
"The Lefty" 1987 [Based on a novel by Leskov]
"Life and Love and Tears" ["I zhizn', i slezy, i ljubov'"]
"Lonely Woman Seeks Life Companion" ["Odinokaja zhenshchina zhelaet poznakomit'sja"] 1987 (English subtitles. 100 min.)
"Marshak's Tales" ["Skazki Marshaka"] "Mirgorod" ["Mirgorod"] 1983 [Based on Gogol's works.]
"Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" ["Moskva slezam ne verit"] 1981 (English subtitles)
"Oblomov" ["Oblomov"] (English subtitles)[Based on Goncharov's novel]
"Office Romance" ["Sluzhebnyj roman"] (German subtitles)
*"Old men only go to war" ["V boj idut odni 'stariki'"]
"The Only One" ["Edinstvennaja"] 1975 (English subtitles)
*"Peculiarties of Russian Hunting" ["Osobennosti natsional'noj okhoty"] 1995
"The Promised Heavens" ["Nebesa obetovannye"] 1991 (English subtitles)
*"Regicide" ["Tsareubijstvo"]
"Russian Byliny" ["Russkie Byliny'"] (Il'ja Muromets, Dobrynja Nikitich, Sadko bogatyj, Vasilisa Mikulishna)
"Ruthless Romance" ["Zhestokij romans"] 1984 (English subtitles. 140 min.)
"Snowball Berry Red" ["Kalina krasnaja"] [Screenplay by Shukshin]
"The Story of the Unextinguished Moon" ["Povest'; Nepogashennoj luny"] 1990
"Snowstorm" ["Metel'"] [Based on Pushkin's story]
*"Summer to Remember" ["Serezha"] 1978 (English subtitles) [Based on Vera Panova's story.]
"The Theme" ["Tema"] 1977 (English subtitles. 100 min.)
"12 Chairs" ["12 Stul'ev"] [Based on a novel by Ilf and Petrov]
*"Window to Paris" ["Okno v Parizh"] (English subtitles. 92 min.); also a copy of the Russian only version
"The Usual Story" ["Obyknovennaja istorija"] 1970

VIDEO TAPES - MISC.

"Moscow State Circus" ["Moskovskij gosudarstvennyj tsirk"](In Russian. Secam format.)
"The Nutcracker" (1990) [as performed by the Kiev Ballet]

VIDEO TAPES - NEWS (in Russian)

"Vremya" (News taped daily off of satellite and kept for a week)

RUSSIAN TV (in Russian)

Russian TV Sampler (PBS/ALS) (Episodes 101, 102, 201, 202) (1995)
WMNB (Russian TV from NYC. Includes rebroadcasts from Russia, news, movies, etc., + ads. "Live" from satellite most mornings. Channel 20.)

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