Podcast Episodes

The Klassiki Kino Club: Getting to Know the Big Wide World

Season 6 Episode 8

It’s been a while since we opened up the Kino Club, our watch-along exploration of Klassiki’s ever-expanding catalogue. We’re putting that right this…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Peter Strickland heads back to the East

Season 6 Episode 7

Last week we launched the latest edition of Klassiki Picks, our series of watchlists curated by our friends in the world of cinema and eastern Europe…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

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The Czechoslovak New Wave and beyond

Season 6 Episode 2

When it comes to Central and Eastern European film, few movements loom larger than the Czechoslovak New Wave. Emerging in a period of political liber…

4 months ago

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To dance is to resist: queer life in wartime Ukraine

Season 6 Episode 5

This week sees the return of one of the highlights of London’s cinematic calendar: BFI Flare, the largest LGBTQ+ film festival in Europe. One of the …

4 months, 1 week ago

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Building film culture in Uzbekistan

Season 6 Episode 4

For many cinephiles, the Central Asian states remain something of a blind spot. A case in point is Uzbekistan, whose film industry stretches back to …

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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100 years of Andrzej Wajda

Season 6 Episode 3

This week sees the one hundredth birthday of Andrzej Wajda, the grand old man of Polish cinema. Until 26 March, Klassiki subscribers can watch Wajda’…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Roman Bondarchuk’s Ukrainian badlands

Season 6 Episode 2

For this episode, we’re dipping back in to the archive of writing on the Klassiki Journal for a profile of the Ukrainian filmmaker Roman Bondarchuk, …

5 months ago

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Sergei Parajanov in love and war

Season 6 Episode 1

Welcome to season six of the Klassiki Podcast! We’re kicking things off by celebrating one of our favourites: Sergei Parajanov. Our new collection Pe…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Rewriting history in Aleksandr Askoldov’s Commissar

Season 5 Episode 10

We’ve reached the end of season 5! Thank you to everyone for listening along. We’ll be back in 2026, but for now, happy holidays and speak to you soo…

7 months, 1 week ago

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The Klassiki Kino Club: An Unusual Exhibition

Season 5 Episode 9

Friend of the show Alisa Goruleva is back on the pod this week for the latest edition of the Kino Club, our watch-a-long exploration of Klassiki’s fi…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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