“Winter Evening in Gagry” (1985) is a prophetic musical dramatic movie made by one of our best film-directors Karen Shakhnazarov. This profound & serious story has two plots: 1. entering of the digital & computer technologies into a concert life, therefore a question about substitution of a man with a machine is raised; 2. some episodes from an ordinary life of Aleksey Beglov, once the most brilliant Soviet step-dancer, are shown interlaced with an expansion of the computer age. A social drama & a personal one are united.
By means of electronic music & modern dancing the film director expresses his worries about the coming age of AI. While a personal drama of loneliness & oblivion of a great talented artist once popular & praised, the one who believed in the power of art until his last day, makes us ponder upon an urgent dilemma of our hi-tech time: if a union of a machine & art is possible for good? What does a Divine human talent mean in this aggressive AI epoch?
To my joy there is a Russian version with the subtitles in English, Italian & other languages…The movie contains plenty of dancing & musical episodes, so we will forgive the AI its unperfect machine translations. This movie is definitely worth watching!
Maria KethuProfumo
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Thank you, Maria.
My pleasure, dear John! I hope you will enjoy it. 😊😉
The movie wouldn’t play. Not available in the US. I’ll look for it on You Tube.
How strange! Yes, try it otherwise. And let me know if it functions or not, then I will try to find another solution.
I found it. Thanks, Maria. 😊
😉😉😉 Hurrah!
Loved the opening. Will watch it in between writing. By the way there was another Russan film titled “The Island,” that was a WWII setting and looked interesting too. (please don’t get me hooked on Russian films 😂)
Why not, dear John? There have been high quality movies here! True, “The Island” is a very good movie. Besides, it will be good for your Russian. New Year means new intentions! 😁😁😁 I hope you will enjoy the plot…and the end as well!
Yes I need to practice my Russianin case I visit Russia.
Indeed! That is a good motivation! 😁😂
I have to be able to leave the house first, of course. 😂
You can use Santa’s sledges. There are no restrictions against the deer. 😋😁😀
Not sure I would clear customs in a sleigh drawn by reindeer.
😂😂😂 Only one solution: you must get dressed as Santa.
And gain 20 Kilos.
You can place some food as a fake belly instead. 😂
Watermellon perhaps?
Why not! Or some papayas!
Yes but they take too many. Some may drop.
if you use an eco-sac, it will be pretty fine!
I have an inner tube which will work.
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