The Long Farewell Blu-Ray

Kira Muratova's 1971 film THE LONG FAREWELL was banned and shelved, not to be shown during perestroika until 1987. Despite the continued censorship of Muratova's work, she still managed to emerge as one of the leading figures in Ukrainian and Russian cinema, building a highly successful film career from the 1960s onwards thanks to her boundary-crossing directing style and aesthetics. THE LONG FAREWELL depicts the rift that develops between an emotionally impulsive single mother (Zinaida Sharko) and her increasingly embittered teenage son (Oleg Vladimirsky), who shatters her world when he announces that he wants to live with his father. Extras: Interview with Dr. Elena Gorfinkel, Isabel Jacobs on The Long Farewell

Language: Russian

Subtitles: English