Cinema and history. 100 most discussed historical films

The new book of the famous historian of cinema and film critic, candidate of art history, employee of the Kommersant publishing house, is dedicated to the genre so popular among the audience as “Historical Cinema”. Historians can repeat as much as you like that history is not melodrama, not noir and not computer fun, but directors and scriptwriters are still pulling from the cinema screen sorrow of Maria Stuart or Catherine the Great as a melodrama, the attempt of Count von Stauffenberg on Hitler or the murder of Kirov - Like Noir, the events of the Time of Troubles in Russia or the association of Italy - as the novel “Cloth and Swords”, and the Kursk battle - as the game “In the Tanchiks”.

This book is a thorough and highly professional analysis of the 100 most vivid, interesting and the controversial historical paintings of world cinema: from Johnny D., “Operation“ Valkyrie ”and“ Operation “Argo” to “Tired of the Sun-2: Citadel”, “Matilda” and “28 Panfilov”.