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Poster for Andrei Konchalovsky's film "Sin", about the life of Michelangelo
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Change.org removes petition against Netflix show “Queen Cleopatra” with 51,625 signatures
Well, well: the petition to axe the history-falsifying show about a black Cleopatra has simply been taken down. How democratic
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Don't Worry, at This Battle You Will Be the Handsomest Man on the Field
Rod Steiger as Napoleon on the set of Sergei Bondarchuk's epic historical film "Waterloo", about Bonaparte's last great battle
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Netflix film by producer Jada Pinkett Smith on a Black Cleopatra and the Ptolemaic dynasty
⚡️Comrades, Cleopatra Was Black⚡️. At least, that is what is claimed in Netflix's new "documentary", produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, the very wife of Will Smith who cheated on him with their son's friend, who began crying "racism! racism!" in 2016 when
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Premiere of “104 Pages About Love” after Radzinsky’s play at the Taganka Theatre
Another premiere this week is "104 Pages About Love", based on the play that made Edvard Radzinsky famous sixty years ago, a play about how people fall into love as one falls under a train. It is the very play on which Natanson based his legendary 1968 film
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When I am asked what I think of a black Anne Boleyn, a Little Mermaid or a Duncan MacLeod, I remember that Asta Nielsen played Hamlet, and even in 1921 that was not a problem, so I see no reason to fret that people of different ethnic and racial identitie
When I am asked what I think of a black Anne Boleyn, a Little Mermaid or a Duncan MacLeod, I remember that Asta Nielsen played Hamlet, and even in 1921 that was not a problem, so I see no reason to fret that people of different ethnic and racial identities
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The 1914 Tokyo staging of “Resurrection” and the Katyusha craze in Japan
Speaking of the fashion for foreign cultural phenomena in Japan, one cannot fail to recall the quite peculiar feeling the Japanese have for Leo Tolstoy's novel "Resurrection" The Japanese writer Shimamura Hogetsu staged "Resurrection" at the Art Theatre in Tokyo in 1914. In the
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Sergey Bodrov and Aleksey Balabanov on the Set of the Film "Brother"
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Retrofuturistic flying cars in the series Hello Tomorrow
Very impressed by the retro-futuristic flying machines in the series Hello Tomorrow. I should very much like to own such a luxurious motor
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According to Sony and Apple, Ridley Scott's historical epic "Napoleon", starring Joaquin Phoenix, will reach screens on 22 November 2023
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Mikhail Romm recalled how, during the filming of his 1934 debut, "Boule de Suif", after the story by Guy de Maupassant (itself, incidentally, a debut), two acknowledged beauties of the day came into collision on set: Galina Sergeyeva, who played the lead…
The young actresses were both 20 years old, and both were fresh and lovely. But it so happened that all the men of the film crew showed an interest in only one of the two girls: Okunevskaya captured the whole of the male attention. And this upset Sergeyeva greatly, the