Delve into the wide world of Eastern European film with the Klassiki Podcast. Featuring interviews, roundtable discussions, recorded essays, and more, we take you beyond the headlines to explore the past, present, and future of this fascinating region.
Klassiki is a streaming platform with a difference. Dedicated to cinema from Eastern Europe, we offer subscribers an ever-evolving library of classic and contemporary titles, as well as highlighting recent releases and festival favourites – meaning we’re the only place to discover the best new voices in eastern European film. Subscribers get access to all this, as well as filmmaker interviews, video essays and introductions, programme notes, and much more. Sign up for a free 7-day trial at klassiki.online.
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Delve into the wide world of Eastern European film with the Klassiki Podcast. Featuring interviews, roundtable discussions, recorded essays, and more, we take you beyond the headlines to explore the past, present, and future of this fascinating region.
Klassiki is a streaming platform with a difference. Dedicated to cinema from Eastern Europe, we offer subscribers an ever-evolving library of classic and contemporary titles, as well as highlighting recent releases and festival favourites – meaning we’re the only place to discover the best new voices in eastern European film. Subscribers get access to all this, as well as filmmaker interviews, video essays and introductions, programme notes, and much more. Sign up for a free 7-day trial at klassiki.online.
As every film fan knows, October is horror season. And while eastern Europe these days is full of horror filmmakers who can mix it with the best of them, this wasn’t always the case: under communism, the genre often struggled to get past state censors. But the idea that there was no horror produced behind the Iron Curtain is a myth. There was in fact a rich tradition in the sixties and seventies, drawing on national folklore, literary sources, and the region’s traumatic recent history to chilling effect. On Klassiki, you can currently stream a Halloween double header of cult classic Soviet films. Viy, by Konstantin Yershov and Georgi Kropachyov, is famous among genre fans as the greatest of all Soviet horror titles, while Valeri Rubinchik’s The Savage Hunt of King Stakh is a criminally under-seen gothic gem from Belarus.
In the spirit of the season, this week Sam speaks with Miriam Balanescu, a film writer and critic with a special interest in all things ghoulish. They discussed the horror history of countries like Poland and Czechia, the political subtext of genre filmmaking under communism, and what ‘folk horror’ meant in the Soviet context.
Don’t miss our Halloween double header, now showing on Klassiki.
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Delve into the wide world of Eastern European film with the Klassiki Podcast. Featuring interviews, roundtable discussions, recorded essays, and more, we take you beyond the headlines to explore the past, present, and future of this fascinating region.
Klassiki is a streaming platform with a difference. Dedicated to cinema from Eastern Europe, we offer subscribers an ever-evolving library of classic and contemporary titles, as well as highlighting recent releases and festival favourites – meaning we’re the only place to discover the best new voices in eastern European film. Subscribers get access to all this, as well as filmmaker interviews, video essays and introductions, programme notes, and much more. Sign up for a free 7-day trial at klassiki.online.
