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TOMORROW, at 1 AM Moscow time, noon PST, and 3 PM EST: THE REZIDENT'S FATE: A spy film in which our hero defects to the Soviets and becomes a triple agent I guess.

I will post a link to the hyperbeam thirty minutes before we start watching! Thank you and enjoy!

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TODAY - freshly subbed by me, НЕБЕСНЫЙ ТИХОХОД aka THE HEAVENLY SLUG/SKY SLOW-MOVER/SKY WHATEVER/SLOWPOKE, just in time for the victory day and for the sillies o777 Sunday 11th - continuing WAR AND PEACE

Soviet Movie Club: May

Wet Ass Peace and War

Yesterday May 3rd - WHO'S SINGIN OVER THERE? a Yugoslavian classic and an average Serbian bus ride

Today 4th - the return of bond's sublime WAR AND PEACE, with less sublime WART IN SHITS to be played before each episode starts. for humility.

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Soviet Movie Club: May

Wet Ass Peace and War

Yesterday May 3rd - WHO'S SINGIN OVER THERE? a Yugoslavian classic and an average Serbian bus ride

Today 4th - the return of bond's sublime WAR AND PEACE, with less sublime WART IN SHITS to be played before each episode starts. for humility.

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The holy trinity. 

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hhellooooo!!!! !

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I completely respect the new russian holmes adaptation still having holmes play violin, but just really really badly. inspired choice

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Remembering a yet another lost soviet Holmes adaptation [taken from here]

Another lost televised play, based on the Valley of Fear of all things, that is also a musical. Holmes was played by none other than whole ass Sergey Yursky and Watson by Mikhail Danilov, who funnily enough re-appeared in My Dearly Beloved Detective as a Mrs. Hudson substitute.

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Holmeses that eat their glasses are so important

Sherlock Holmes adaptations where he wears glasses are so important. To me.

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Cuz my draft for The Deadly Fight (aka Soviet Holmes' take on The Final Problem) got lost, I'm skipping ahead to The Tiger Hunt (aka Empty House)

first of all: the titles! They are so good! I love them

Watson reading Holmes' letter to Mrs. Hudson multiple times

Watson and Mrs. Hudson entering Holmes' room about a month after the incident and the camera pands over all his stuff: the chemical set, the violin, pictures on the wall, his archive...while a slow version of the theme song plays (my heart).

Watson picking up Holmes' violin and playing it

Everyone bullying Watson over his padre disguise

Ronald Ader being a badasssss

they included the entire conflict between Ader and Moran and the entire buildup to the murder! Like, everything is here!

Granada: we probably should not show Ader's corpse. It's bloody and all. Would be too upsetting. Soviet: pathetic

They made Watson the main suspect in the murder of Ronald Ader? Omg? That is so cool?!

Gregory "the murderer was floating in midair" Lestrade

dramatic theme song

BOTH WATSON AND MRS HUDSON FAINTING ROFL XD (in all honesty this scene is so touching and sweet)

Everyone crying at the reunion. Even Holmes

Watson has a little notebook!

Mrs. Hudson and Mycroft pupeteering Wax!Holmes (they're having so much fun)

Watson gently checking whether the Holmes he is talking too isn't secretly made of wax too

Lestrade being fucking speecheless seeing Holmes alive and tbh I cannot tell if it is because he is overjoyed or because he is disappointed

Holmes musing on fighting evil

Seriously this is such a good adaptation and Final Problem/Empty House is the best part so far!

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my thoughts on soviet sherlock holmes

I love just how married holmes and watson are in this adaptation. that moment in the king of blackmail when holmes just grabs watson's hand?? and that moment in the tiger hunt when they stand next to each other smiling?? honestly waited for them to kiss.

diagnosis: married. (i'm not even starting on how watson literaly looks grieving while he's telling holmes about his future marriage. and no music is playing at all. why would you make it so silient if you wanted it to be a happy moment)

I love that holmes is wearing glasses in this series and in good half of the episodes we get to see someone (mostly watson) eating. i have a bunch of other moments i love, but i'm writing this instead of sleeping so please forgive me for being too lazy to translate them from my notes to english

I love what we even got a bit of crossdressing and holmes being drama queen and theater kid. and then in the treasures of agra they make holmes fall in love(-ish) with irene adler and make jokes about women not being smart. who do i kill for that

honestly the treasures of agra and the 20th century approaches were a bit dissaponting, especially after the hound of the baskervilles episodes, which i liked a lot. they're fun and we get to see the most gorgeous actors here, do i need to add any more? (alla demidova, when i catch you...)

Also, I think it's a bit different experience for me to watch this adaptation than to most of you, 'cause it's kinda a culturally significant thing for post-USSR countries (i think) and I consider it fun that I never watched it before. now I got to watch something in my native language which i never do. the "don't lose heart" moment hit harder when i was actually watching it.

Absolutely loved Solomin's Watson btw. He's just too cute

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Russian Holmes & Watson

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Holmes when he sees Watson <3

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All Drood weekend this time, today it's ep3, and tomorrow it's the finale o77

Soviet Movie Club(tm): April

Spying is OVER and now we ball regular style

Saturday 5th - Bri'ish lit inspired animation day, seven cartoons all from different genres and authors o77

Sunday 6th - checking out the mystery of edwin drood, what looks like a tv adaptation and with no real sub, trusting autotranslate here that tested weirdly well

Everything as per usual, on beam at 10pm Moscow time.

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Happy Birthday to the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin!

Here are some beautiful Palekh paintings from the late 70s / early 80s by Kaleria and Boris Kukuliev depicting Gagarin and others in scenes of celestial fantasy.

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Why is this so funny to me? Like yes, as a woman, ‘secreting’ is my favourite thing <3