Russia in the Movies: From the Bolshevik Revolution to the Cold War

Film studies professor Michael Smith will discuss Russian-made cinema from the early 1920s through the mid-1950s.

The presentation also will examine movies depicting Russians and Russian culture that filmmakers from other countries made during that era. Clips to be screened include The Battleship Potemkin, Man with the Movie Camera, Alexander Nevsky, Ninotchka, and Doctor Zhivago.

In addition to teaching film studies, Michael Smith Glover is a Chicago-based film critic as well as a film writer and director. His latest film, Mercury in Retrograde, won the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2017 Full Bloom Film Festival.

This event is part of the Wilmette Public Library’s 2018 One Book, Everybody Reads series, which is featuring author Amor Towles’s bestselling novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, this spring.

One Book, Everybody Reads is generously funded by the Friends of the Wilmette Public Library.  Community partners for the 2018 One Book program include The Book Stall, League of Women Voters of Wilmette, Make It Better, NS/Modern Luxury, Rotary Club of Wilmette, Rotary Club of Wilmette Harbor, Village of Kenilworth, Village of Wilmette, Wilmette Beacon, Wilmette-Kenilworth Chamber of Commerce, and Wilmette Schools District 39.

For more information about this year’s One Book, Everybody Reads program, visit www.wilmettelibrary.info/onebook or call (847) 256-6930.