Podcast Episodes

The most important art: Ian Christie’s journey through late Soviet cinema

Season 7 Episode 8

Long time listeners of the show will be familiar with the film historian Ian Christie, who’s joined us to discuss topics ranging from Aleksandr Sokur…

9 hours ago

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Otar Iosseliani’s fables of modern life

Season 7 Episode 7

Renowned in his native Georgia as one of the nation’s greatest filmmakers, Otar Iosseliani spent the majority of his career in his adoptive home of F…

1 week ago

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BONUS: Golden Apricot festival report

Season 7 Episode 6

We have a bonus episode for you this week. Host Sam is in Yerevan, Armenia, attending the Golden Apricot International Film Festival – always a highl…

1 week, 4 days ago

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Unravelling the twisted crime films of Corneliu Porumboiu

Season 7 Episode 5

For this episode, we’re dipping back in to the archive of writing on the Klassiki Journal for an essay on the Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu. T…

2 weeks ago

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The Klassiki Kino Club: Tough Kids

Season 7 Episode 4

We’re a few weeks into season seven, so it’s about time to open up the Kino Club, our watch-along exploration of the Klassiki catalogue. For this edi…

3 weeks ago

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Beyond Mr Nobody: documentary under Putin

Season 7 Episode 3

Russian documentary has been in the limelight following the Oscar win for Mr Nobody Against Putin earlier this year. The film consists of footage cov…

4 weeks ago

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Boris Barnet: poet of the outskirts

Season 7 Episode 2

Last week saw the 124th anniversary of Boris Barnet, one of the most influential filmmakers of the Soviet Union. In Europe, Barnet’s lyrical and huma…

1 month ago

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Valeska Grisebach returns with The Dreamed Adventure

Season 7 Episode 1

Welcome back to season seven of the Klassiki Podcast! We’ve got ten more episodes coming up for you on the past and present of eastern European film,…

1 month, 1 week ago

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The moral maze of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog

Season 6 Episode 10

We’ve reached the end of season six. Thank you to all our subscribers and listeners old and new. We’ll be back in the summer – but in the meantime, d…

3 months, 1 week ago

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Artavazd Pelechian: poetry at a distance

Season 6 Episode 9

This week, cinema audiences in London are getting the rare chance to see a selection of films by the great Armenian filmmaker Artavazd Pelechian as p…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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