FILM
Kira Muratova, 1967, 96’
Valentina and Nadya love the same man; one is his wife, the other a fleeting encounter; neither knows of each other’s existence until a misunderstanding brings them together.
FILM
Kira Muratova, 1971, 97’
“Muratova contrived to make the first non-Soviet – not to be confused with anti- Soviet – films in the history of our cinema...They began the ‘long farewell’ of Soviet cinema.”
Andrei Plakhov
FILM
Kira Muratova, 1989, 153’
The Asthenic Syndrome begins as a black-and-white drama about a woman who, after losing her husband, falls into a state of despair and becomes a danger to herself and her surroundings.