Abstract
The famous Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov has been constructing different images of Russia, depending on the year of production and the nature of the implied audience. He made a definite turn during the years of perestroika : in Dark Eyes in 1986 he freely adapted several short stories by Chekhov and he shot his film Urga (Close to Eden) in 1991 mainly in China. Whereas up to this time he had addressed essentially Soviet audiences, he made these two pictures mainly for Western viewer who "fell in love" both with film and director. The two films in Russia, however, elicited highly unfavourable criticism. The articles that were published in the Russian press help to understand the gap between, on the one hand, the perceptions that Russian intellectuals have of their country and its culture, and, on the other hand, the images that the director has produced for the West.
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