In the St. Petersburg art space mArs (Marsovo Pole, 3) on Wednesday, April 26, a meeting will be held with historian Ilya Sidorchuk “Cinema and the audience: the charm, tears and laughter of Soviet “electric theaters” of the 1920s – early 1930s “. The event will be held as part of the “Kvartirnik” project. The start is at 19:00.
“The most important of the arts…” Stop! Did Lenin say this at all? Or is this another apocryphal? This question will definitely be answered. For now, let’s say that in any case, the Bolsheviks really appreciated the cinema and paid it the most close attention.
It aroused no less enthusiasm among the audience, who were not particularly spoiled for entertainment. As Bulgakov noted in The Heart of a Dog, “cinema for women is the only consolation in life.” The words of the writer need to be supplemented – not only among women. Everyone watched the cinema – workers and intellectuals, children and adults, residents of the capital and every corner where a mobile film installation could reach. The history of early Soviet cinema began with the film “The Seal”, where a worker is placed in a professor’s apartment, and symbolically ended with Stalin’s words “Can’t anything be more fun?”
Over the past decade and a half, it has come a long way. No less difficult was the transformation of the viewer. To talk about this is the task of the upcoming meeting.
Sidorchuk Ilya Viktorovich — Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Graduate School of International Relations of the Humanitarian Institute of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.
Tickets for the event can be purchased on TimePad or at the box office before the event.
Source: Rosbalt
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