Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Alexander Zolotukhin's A Russian Youth, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from April 30 - May 29, 2020 in Mubi's Debuts series.In the late 1910s, somewhere along the Eastern Front, a Russian teen joins the army to fight the Germans in World War I. A hundred years later, in St. Petersburg, an orchestra rehearses two works by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, his 1909 Piano Concerto No. 3 and the 1940 Symphonic Dances. Alexander Zolotukhin’s A Russian Youth unfolds along these two axes, weaving glimpses of the practice room all through the lad’s journey, so that the music doesn’t all too simply score the drama but shares with it a more singular relationship, a layering together of past and present. The boy’s name is Alexei (Vladimir Korolev), a blue-eyed kid whose cinematic ancestry stretches...
- 5/7/2020
- MUBI
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