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315 Abdrashitov, Vadim, 13, 73, 75 Abuladze, Tengiz, 13, 73, 75, 89 Adomenaite, Nijole, 109n14 Aeschylus, 21n12 Afghanistan, Soviet war in, 15, 16, 66, 116; Brigada references to, 19, 219, 221–22, 225; dukhi (ghosts) of, 120; Otets i syn [Father and Son] and, 300, 302n5 Aigi, Aleksei, 118 Akhmadulina, Bella, 32 Akhmatova, Anna, 248 Alaniz, José, 17, 257 alcoholism, 18, 80, 152, 174, 303n11 Aleksandrov, Petr, 285 Alien (1979), 300 Alov, Aleksandr, 114 American Beauty (1999), 171 The American President (1995), 171 Amerikanskaia doch’ [American Daughter ] (1995), 138, 139 Anderson, Benedict, 218 Andrei Rublev (1966), 248 Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sacrifice [zhertvoprinoshenie Andreia Tarkovskogo] (Boldryrev), 248 Ankor, eshche ankor! [Encore! Again, Encore!] (1992), 14 Anosova, Nina, 269n5, 270n17 Index anti-Semitism, 227 Antonov, Artem, 110n17 The Apotheosis of War (Vereshchagin painting), 63 Aprel’skii, Sergei, 222 Arcand, Denys, 3 Arnshtam, Lev, 14 Aronovich, Semen, 14 Askol’dov, Aleksandr, 83 Atanesian, Aleksandr, 96 Attwood, Lynne, 170 Backdraft (1991), 171 Baer, Brian, 19, 144 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 36 Balabanov, Aleksei, 16, 117, 121–22, 221 Baltic countries, 100, 116 Balzac, Honoré de, 153 Banderas, Antonio, 138, 156n1 Barbarian Invasions [Les invasions barbares] (2003), 3 Baskakov, Vladimir, 67n13 Bazin, André, 296 Beauvoir, Simone de, 169 Bekmambetov, Timur, 6, 18, 191, 194, 209, 268 Belarus/Belorussia, 100, 101–104 Beliaev, Iurii, 141 Italicized page numbers indicate illustrations. 316 · index Beloe solntse pustyni [White Sun of the Desert] (1969), 13, 51, 67n13, 68n17; character naming in, 63; narrative plot, 61–65; Ofitsery [Officers] compared with, 54–55, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65; popularity of, 55, 65; Soviet mythology of civil war and, 60 Beroev, Egor, 149 Besy [The Possessed/Demons] (Dostoev­ sky), 21n18 Bezhin lug [Bezhin Meadow] (1935–37), 8 Bezrukov, Sergei, 219, 232 Bible/biblical stories, 6, 59, 101, 156, 274n62; Akedah (sacrifice of Isaac), 283, 286–88, 290, 291–92; Bekmambetov ’s Dozor trilogy and, 207; kinship narrative linked to, 74; prodigal son story, 259; Rembrandt’s Book of Tobit series, 297, 303n14; Tree of Life, 266–67; Vozvrashchenie [The Return] and, 173–74. See also Jesus Christ, references to; Orthodox Christianity Bicycle Thieves [Ladri di bicicletti] (1948), 3, 67n4 Bildungsroman, 8, 18, 140, 149, 154 Billington, James, 218 Billy Elliot (2000), 10 Bird, Robert, 249 The Birdcage (1996), 171 Blankenhorn, David, 171 Blokada [The Blockade] (1974–78), 53 Blos, Peter, 90 Bodrov, Sergei, Jr., 121 Bogomolov, Iurii, 63 Bogomolov, Vladimir, 254, 256 Boldryrev, Nikolai, 248, 253, 265, 267, 273n48 Bondarchuk, Fedor, 16, 117 Bondarchuk, Natal’ia, 250 Bondarchuk, Sergei, 12, 73, 105, 127, 249, 268 Boretskii, Iurii, 97 Borneman, John, 15 Boyz n the Hood (1991), 171 Brakhage, Stan, 290 Brashinsky, Michael, 73 Brat [Brother] (1997), 121, 221, 230 Brat 2 [Brother 2] (2000), 121 Brat’ia Karamazovy [The Brothers Karamazov] (Dostoevsky), 21n18, 45n1, 172 Bresson, Robert, 282 Brezhnev, Leonid, 44, 53, 71, 84n4 Brezhnev: Sumerki imperii [Brezhnev: Twilight of the Empire] (2006), 107 Brezna, Irena, 251 Brigada [The Brigade] (TV mini-series), 19, 144, 219–20, 236–37; absent fathers in, 221–28; ethnicity in, 225, 226–28; problems of fraternal governance , 228–30; Rambo references in, 222–25, 238nn4–5; redemption of patriarchy, 231–36; religious references in, 225, 229, 235–36; role of fate in, 232–33; as “Russian Sopranos ,” 220–21, 238n3; stills from, 241–43 brothers, bands of, 217–18, 219, 224–25, 228–30, 236–37 Bruzzi, Stella, 169 Burliaev, Nikolai, 268n1 Bykov, Rolan, 83, 180 Byl mesiats mai [It Was the Month of May] (1970), 31 cannibalism, 19, 211 capitalism, 185, 219 Carroll, Noel, 54 castration, Symbolic, 7, 172, 176, 303n14; castration anxiety, 300; sons’ self-castration, 286, 287; vision and, 297, 304n17 Cattaneo, Peter, 10, 180 Central Asia, 60, 62, 63, 68n17 Chadov, Aleksei, 203 Chapaev (Furmanov novel), 22n19 Chapaev (1934), 57, 252 Character (1997), 10, 181 Chechen War, 15, 16–17, 95, 121–22; Brigada references to, 224, 225, 229, 232, 235, 239n13; in Moi svodnyi brat Frankenshtein [My Stepbrother Frankenstein], 118, 132, 144; Otets [52.15.63.145] Project MUSE (2024-04-16 20:46 GMT) index · 317 i syn [Father and Son] and, 300, 302n5; Soviet mythology of World War II and, 116, 117, 129; in Vor [The Thief], 141, 144, 146, 147 chekisty (secret police personnel), 76, 97 Chelovek idet za solntsem [A Man Walks after the Sun] (1961), 43 Chernov, Vladimir, 2 chernukha (dark naturalism) films, 85n9, 92 Chernykh, Valentin, 99, 134n3 Chiaureli, Mikhail, 15 Chiginskii, Vasilii, 109n14 Chistoe nebo [Clear Sky] (1961), 30 Chkeidze, Rezo, 114 Christianity, 59, 174...

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