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Ep 129 – Trial on the Road – The Soviet Film That Was Banned For 15 Years

This week on Rosie, we’re talking about Trial on the Road, a Soviet movie shot in 1971 but suppressed for 15 years and not released until 1986. It follows Red Army sergeant Lazarev, a former collaborator who tries to redeem himself with a partisan group operating behind German lines.

Any guesses as to why it was banned for so long?

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Ep 115 – Come and See – A Belarusian Nightmare You Cannot Wake From

In this episode of Rosie the Reviewer, we discuss Come and See (1985), directed by Elem Klimov and set in German-occupied Belarus. We follow Flyora, a teenage boy who joins a partisan unit and is drawn into the systematic destruction of Belarusian villages by German forces. We talk about the film, the history of what Germany did to Belarus, and the survivor accounts that Adamovich travelled across the country to collect.

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