Interpretations of the estate in Soviet cinema

Abstract

The article analyzes the features, dynamics and ways of creating the image of the estate in Soviet cinema on extensive material. Being on the periphery of the cultural context of the era, the estate, nevertheless, proved to be in demand by Soviet cinema. In the course of the work, two main vectors of solving the image of the estate in the tapes of the 1920–1980s were identified: negative reception of the estate and its poetization. If in the first half of the XX century the estate was presented as a product and a bulwark of class inequality, then since the 1960s (“The thaw”) the cinematic image of the estate becomes more developed, turns towards poetization. The article examines in detail the discussion around the movie “The Noble Nest” (1969, directed by A.S. Konchalovsky) as one of the landmark stages of the process of “rehabilitation” of Russian manor culture.