Killing Zone: Tarkovsky’s Stalker, Roadside Picnic, & Soviet Censorship

Sep 28th 2021 2:52pm EDT

2,753 words Every musician that Shostakovich was at the Moscow Conservatory with in one particular year was shot. Every one, on Stalin’s orders. And when he asked . . . why he’d been spared, Stalin said, “Shostakovich can write film music. We need film music. Because we need film. Because with film we can go […]

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