Posts tagged Russia
Ep #50 - The Soviet Fairy Tales of Aleksandr Rou in the 60s
Ep #50 - The Soviet Fairy Tales of Aleksandr Rou in the 60s

Bart & Jenna dive into the magical 1960s films of Aleksandr Rou – a mystical, technicolor world of amazing costumes, practical effects and live bears… aka Soviet fairy tales.

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PodcastGrateful GuysAleksandr Rou, Alexander Rou, Maria the Wonderful Weaver, Maria-iskusnitsa, Cinderella, Khrustal'nyy bashmachok, Raisa Struchkova, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Nikolai Gogol, Russia, USSR, Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki, The Night Before Christmas, Aleksandr Khvylya, L Myznikova, Yuri Tavrov, Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors, Korolevstvo krivykh zerkal, Jack Frost, Natalya Sedykh, Morozko, Baba Yaga, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Georgy Millyar, Fire Water and Brass Pipes, Ogon voda i... mednye truby, Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair, Varvara-krasa dlinnaya kosa, Anatoly Kubatsky, Mikhail PugovkinComment
Ep #4 - Cold War Comedies in the 60s
Ep #4 - Cold War Comedies in the 60s

Jenna & Bart navigate the anxiety, arrogance, doubts, patriotism, and humanist longings expressed through comedy during this time of high global tension.

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PodcastGrateful GuysCold War, comedy, One Two Three, Billy Wilder, James Cagney, The Mouse on the Moon, Richard Lester, Dr Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, George C Scott, John Goldfarb Please Come Home, J Lee Thompson, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming, Norman Jewison, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, The President's Analyst, Theodore J Flicker, James Coburn, Severn Darden, The Diamond Arm, Leonid Gaidai, Russia, BritishComment