The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema

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Edited by Richard Taylor, Nancy Wood, Julian Graffy and Dina Iordanova

British Film Institute

Due/Published March 2001, 296 pages, paper

ISBN 085170753X

A map to the rich and varied cinema of Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former USSR. Over 200 entries cover a variety of topics spanning a whole century of varied endeavor and turbulent history, from Czech animation to Soviet montage, from the silent cinemas dating back to World War I to the varied responses to the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. The Companion includes entries on actors and actresses, film festivals, studios, genres, directors, film monuments, critics, producers, and technicians, with coverage going through the late 1990s. In addition to the wealth of historical material on key figures like Eisenstein and Wedja, the editors provide separate accounts of the cinemas of Eastern Europe and of Russia in the wake of the collapse of communism.