Friday, 4. June 2004
Topic: ART - on June 4, 2004 at 5:46:00 PM CEST
Why Stalin loved Tarzan and wanted John Wayne shot
The Soviet dictator was also a film buff who'd teach Eisenstein how to make movies. Simon Sebag Montefiore delves into the newly opened Politburo archives
Every one of Stalin's houses had its own private cinema, and in his last years, the cinema became not only his favourite entertainment but also a source of political inspiration. It was one of the venues from which he ruled the Soviet Empire: this was cinematocracy - rule by cinema.
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