18 June to 30 September 2022, the WWI Museum at the Martial Chamber of Tsarskoe Selo offers WWI Stories on Film, a series of lectures and international movie shows on the Great War, as well as Q&A sessions with some of the directors and historians.
All the events are free. They will take place each Friday at 7 p.m. and each Saturday at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Advance registration on TImepad is required.
The first event of the project presents St Petersburg's director Alexander Zolotukhin and his first feature film by screened in the 2019 Berlinale Forum, A Russian Youth (1919).
Schedule for 1 June–16 July:
- 18 June, 4 pm — A Russian Youth (1919) by Alexander Zolotukhin + Q&A with director
- 19 June, 2 pm — Shoulder Arms (1918) by Charlie Chaplin
19 June, 5 pm — My Boy Jack (2007) by Brian Kirk - 24 June, 7 pm — Lecture by film historian E. Margolit + Sniper (1931) by Semyon Timoshenko
- 25 June, 2 pm — And Quiet Flows the Don (1930) by Ivan Pravov and Olga Preobrazhenskaya
25 June, 5 pm — Sunset Song (2015) by Terence Davies - 1 July, 7 pm — Lecture by historian K. Tarasov + The Good Soldier Schweik (1956) by Karel Steklý
- 2 July, 2 pm — The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk (2009, animated) by Rinat Gazizov
2 July 5 pm — The War Below (2021) by J.P. Watts - 8 July, 7 pm — Lecture by art historian I. Chechot + Shock Troop / Stoßtrupp 1917 (1934) by Hans Zöberlein and Westfront 1918 (1930) by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- 9 July, 2 pm — Three Comrades (1938) by Frank Borzage
9 July, 5 pm — See You Up There / Au revoir là-haut (2017) by Albert Dupontel
15 July, 7 pm — Q&A with Seans Magazine's chief editor V. Stepanov + Colonel Redl (1984) by István Szabó - 16 July, 2 pm — Hanussen (1988) by István Szabó
16 July, 5 pm — The Cut (2014) by Fatih Akin
Martial Chamber's address: 5A Farm Road, Pushkin
WWI Stories On Film project on VKontakte and Telegram (in Russian)
Organised by Tsarskoe Selo together with the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Gosfilmfond and Dornfilm.
