Lev Karakhan. Distant Consequences. “Sin,” “A Frenchman,” and the Sixtiers

  • Year2024
  • LanguageRussian
  • Pages360
  • BindingPaperback
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In Distant Consequences, film critic Lev Karakhan seeks to make sense of the complex path taken after World War II by both Russian and Western cinema. 

The study is based on a comparison of the work of two directors of the Sixtiers generation, Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrey Smirnov, focusing in particular on their respective recent films Sin (2019) and A Frenchman (2019). How has the life-affirming generation of the Khrushchev «thaw» changed over decades? How is it connected to the Western cinema of alienation? How did it cope with a crisis of vitality when the «thaw» gave way to renewed freezes? What does the legacy of the Sixtiers mean today? The author searches for answers by drawing an ever-wider range of names, phenomena, and events into his analysis.

Author

Lev Karakhan (b. 1953) is a film critic, film historian, and producer. Since the 1970s, he has published in Sovetskii Ekran, Seans, and Iskusstvo Kino, as well as in the newspapers Komsomolskaya Pravda, Ekran i Stsena, and Literaturnaya Gazeta. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Iskusstvo Kino magazine and a co-founder of the distribution company Film+. He has produced films and TV series including Kak by ne tak, Almazy na desert, Rodstvennyy obmen, Kapitanskie deti, Sluzhba doveriya, Dva tsveta strasti, and others. Karakhan is a member of the Russian Filmmakers’ Union and the Nika Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science, and has served on the juries of the Kinoshock and Kinotavr film festivals.

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