La Première Guerre mondiale vue par le cinéma russe

Abstract

World War I in the Mirror of the Russian Cinema. The article is devoted to the peculiarities of World War I reflection in the Russian and Soviet cinema from 1914 (in detail ­ from 1927) to 2016. In addition to the separate review of about 30 feature films and television series, the article contains their comparative analysis and evaluation of the role of the cinema in the creation of the Russian cultural and historical perception of World War I. Traditionally, WWI in the Soviet cinema is seen as the background for the Russian Revolution , the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War. Since 2010 a new trend of delayed glorification of war heroes has appeared in the Russian cinema. Russia is actually the only country that still has no anti­war cinema while taking part in the twentieth century world wars.