Beijing Bicycle
. Dir. Xiaoshuai Wang. Sony Pictures Classics, 2001. This movie about two men and a bicycle depicts the diversity of Beijing well.
Close to Eden
. Dir Nikita Mikhalkov. Miramax Films, 1991. A hilarious and beautiful depiction of life in Mongolia.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
. Dir. An Lee. Columbia Tri Star, 2000. A wonderful and exciting film in the tradition of Chinese fimmaking.
Dr. Zhivago.
Dir. David Lean. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, 1965. The classic Pasternak novel made into a classic film.
The Last Emperor
. Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci. Columbia Pictures, 1987. A beautiful film shot partially in Beijing’s Forbidden City.
Legend of the Drunken Master II.
Dir. Chia Liang Lu, Jackie Chen. Miramax Films, 1994. A wonderful Jackie Chen movie with lots of action and interesting city settings.
The Mongolian Tale
. Dir. Fei Xie. New Yorker Films, 1995. Beautiful depictions of Mongolia in this interesting film that accents Close to Eden well.
Mulan
. Dir. Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook. Buena Vista Pictures, 1998. A spectacular Disney cartoon depicting a classic Chinese legend.
Not One Less.
Dir. Yima Zhang. Sony Pictures Classics, 1999. The story of a schoolteacher looking for her student in a suburb of Beijing.
Peter the Great
. Dir Marvin Chomsky, Lawrence Schiller. National Broadcast Company, 1986. A made for TV mini series based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Robert Massie
Siberiade
. Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky. International Film Exchange Ltd., 1979. An epic film that covers half a century of Russian history in Siberia.
Taxi Blues
. Dir. Pavel Lungin. MKZ Diffusion, 1990. A modern look at Moscow through the life of a city taxi driver.
1 Rewi Alley,
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, page 64.
2 Scammel,
Michael Solzhenitsyn: A Biography
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3 Anna Benn, editor. I
nsight Guides; Russia, Hong Kong
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4 Belt, Don,
The World’s Great Lake
in National Geographic, Vol. 181, No. 6, June 1992, pp2-39.