13:00 - a woman dancing alone in her studio. it starts off very slow and becomes somewhat hypnotic. as the music speeds up, so does the dance, the length of the shots, which ultimately leaves you slightly dizzy and feeling off centered. It begins to slow down again, along with everything else, and the shades of the black and white film begin to change.

13:00 - a woman dancing alone in her studio. it starts off very slow and becomes somewhat hypnotic. as the music speeds up, so does the dance, the length of the shots, which ultimately leaves you slightly dizzy and feeling off centered. It begins to slow down again, along with everything else, and the shades of the black and white film begin to change.

"The Theme" is a film that had to stay on the shelf for almost ten years because of its "theme". Mikhail Ulyanov plays Kim Yesenin, a disillusioned and cynical playwright who uses the system by writing the conformist plays and enjoys the benefits of being the officially recognized and appointed "great Soviet writer" but who in reality has been used by a system and spent all the talent he ever had in writing the plays that had no artistic value whatsoever. Bitter irony lies in the name of the character: Sergei Yesenin was a real life enormously talented, widely popular and beloved Russian poet who committed suicide at the age of 30 in 1925 because he could not fit in the Soviet Russia. Kim Yesenin in the movie suffers the writing block and arrives to the small provincial town with a friend and a young mistress in search of inspiration. He meets an attractive, intelligent and well educated museum guide named Sasha (Inna Churikova never looked so beautiful and sophisticated and I finally understood why Panfilov always had been fascinated by her face, never conventionally pretty) who used to be a big fan of his earlier works but has a lot of unflattering things to say about his officially praised outings. Sasha is in love with a talented historian who had made a very difficult and life changing decision to emigrate from the Soviet Union. He had lost his job by becoming a dissident and had to work as a gravedigger to support himself while waiting for permission to leave the country. Those who never had to emigrate from their country knowing that they might leave forever and never be allowed to go back to see their loved ones and the places dear to their heart again would not fully understand why Panfilov's film had to stay on the shelf for almost ten year after it was completed. It was released only during the "perestroika" in 1987 and I saw it then. I respect Panfilov for his siding with the real artists rejected by the system but his film is not only a courageous statement against the conformity suffocating cultural life under the Brezhnev regime which would be later called "period zastoya" or "stagnation", it is a memorable work of cinema with very good performances from his muse, Inna Churikova, Mikhail Ulyanov, and supporting cast.

"The Theme" is a film that had to stay on the shelf for almost ten years because of its "theme". Mikhail Ulyanov plays Kim Yesenin, a disillusioned and cynical playwright who uses the system by writing the conformist plays and enjoys the benefits of being the officially recognized and appointed "great Soviet writer" but who in reality has been used by a system and spent all the talent he ever had in writing the plays that had no artistic value whatsoever. Bitter irony lies in the name of the character: Sergei Yesenin was a real life enormously talented, widely popular and beloved Russian poet who committed suicide at the age of 30 in 1925 because he could not fit in the Soviet Russia. Kim Yesenin in the movie suffers the writing block and arrives to the small provincial town with a friend and a young mistress in search of inspiration. He meets an attractive, intelligent and well educated museum guide named Sasha (Inna Churikova never looked so beautiful and sophisticated and I finally understood why Panfilov always had been fascinated by her face, never conventionally pretty) who used to be a big fan of his earlier works but has a lot of unflattering things to say about his officially praised outings. Sasha is in love with a talented historian who had made a very difficult and life changing decision to emigrate from the Soviet Union. He had lost his job by becoming a dissident and had to work as a gravedigger to support himself while waiting for permission to leave the country. Those who never had to emigrate from their country knowing that they might leave forever and never be allowed to go back to see their loved ones and the places dear to their heart again would not fully understand why Panfilov's film had to stay on the shelf for almost ten year after it was completed. It was released only during the "perestroika" in 1987 and I saw it then. I respect Panfilov for his siding with the real artists rejected by the system but his film is not only a courageous statement against the conformity suffocating cultural life under the Brezhnev regime which would be later called "period zastoya" or "stagnation", it is a memorable work of cinema with very good performances from his muse, Inna Churikova, Mikhail Ulyanov, and supporting cast.

将门之女林阅儿在得知父亲林昊天兵败朔州城有隐情后，化名“庭芜”，以歌姬的身份进入郭府调查真相，道路艰险，郭书乘的怀疑、郭奉的试探、赵定虹的偏执、隋若安的刺杀……林阅儿用自己的智慧步步为营，最终为林家军数万忠魂讨还公道。

库尔特（汤姆·希林 Tom Schilling 饰）的姨母曾经被关进过集中营，最终在纳粹医生卡尔（塞巴斯蒂安·科赫 Sebastian Koch 饰）的折磨下不幸死去。虽然库尔特幸运的在柏林墙建成之前逃往了西德，但他的整个童年时代都生活在纳粹的阴影之下，这给他的人格带来了极大的创伤。 　　之后，库尔特进入了杜塞道夫美术学院就读，无法走出过去阴影的他将内心的绝望和伤痛都挥洒在了画布之上。一次偶然中，库尔特邂逅了名为艾利（葆拉·贝尔 Paula Beer 饰）的女孩，美丽活泼的艾利渐渐的治愈了库尔特内心的伤痕，当两人鼓起勇气想要将关系再推进一步时，却遭到了艾利父亲的强烈反对。

库尔特（汤姆·希林 Tom Schilling 饰）的姨母曾经被关进过集中营，最终在纳粹医生卡尔（塞巴斯蒂安·科赫 Sebastian Koch 饰）的折磨下不幸死去。虽然库尔特幸运的在柏林墙建成之前逃往了西德，但他的整个童年时代都生活在纳粹的阴影之下，这给他的人格带来了极大的创伤。 　　之后，库尔特进入了杜塞道夫美术学院就读，无法走出过去阴影的他将内心的绝望和伤痛都挥洒在了画布之上。一次偶然中，库尔特邂逅了名为艾利（葆拉·贝尔 Paula Beer 饰）的女孩，美丽活泼的艾利渐渐的治愈了库尔特内心的伤痕，当两人鼓起勇气想要将关系再推进一步时，却遭到了艾利父亲的强烈反对。

一家之主去世后，他留下的钻石帝国和新婚不久的女仆妻子让这个家族陷入了一场权力斗争。