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Stanley Stewart
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A repeat showing of a fine 95 minute documentary centred on a two-month rail journey as Solzhenitsyn returned to his homeland following 20 years of exile.
BBC 2 23.20 hrs Alexander Solzhenitsyn - The Homecoming Monday, 18 August 2008
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trained-pianist
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« Reply #1 on: 12:36:30, 17-08-2008 » |
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It is too late for me. I have cut off time at 10.30 or can not function properly the next day.
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martle
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« Reply #2 on: 13:12:30, 17-08-2008 » |
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Couldn't you record it on video, t-p? Or get a friend to? Or watch on iplayer?
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« Reply #3 on: 14:11:00, 17-08-2008 » |
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that is a good ides. Why did I think of that?
I can ask friends to do it for me. They will be interested any way (Russian friends).
My DVD can not record.
Thank you Mr martle.
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« Reply #4 on: 15:17:57, 17-08-2008 » |
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Has this film ever been released on DVD? I would love to see it!
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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« Reply #6 on: 16:44:25, 17-08-2008 » |
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 I'll write to you later, Stanley. Had a lovely evening viewing "Stritchy" yesterday!  |
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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Stanley Stewart
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« Reply #7 on: 01:18:32, 19-08-2008 » |
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I sat enthralled and was deeply moved by this film. A true epic set in a spectacular landscape covering several thousand miles, yet intimate in its understanding of the human heart; its warmth and affection alongside a bruised and deep burning anger; and the sheer horror of genocide with its roots in ideology.
Disappointing that it was shown on BBC 2 at such a late hour but perhaps BBC 4 will now be pressured to give it the respect it deserves with a peak hour transmission.
It's late now but I still feel quite fractured by its impact.
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Stanley Stewart
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« Reply #8 on: 11:54:20, 19-08-2008 » |
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#3 Hi, t-p! Did you manage to arrange a recording? If not, please send me a PM and I'll happily send you a DVD with my compliments. It's a very special film and many here would appreciate your comments.
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« Reply #9 on: 18:53:01, 19-08-2008 » |
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Yes, I did.
Now I have to find time to go there and watch it.
This morning when I saw you post I sent my friend an e-mail, telling him that member of my board said good things about the program.
I was afraid he forgot to record it. But he did not. He said to come and we will watch if together.
I have a friend passing through town at the moment. My friends who recorded the program have a daughter visinting.
We will probably meet next week to watch the tape.
Thank you, Stanley Strewart.
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« Reply #10 on: 20:39:49, 25-08-2008 » |
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I watched that homecoming movie yesterday.
It was made after the collaps of the Soviet Union.
He wanted to see all Russia. He wanted to see all Russia alone, but it is difficult to do when one is so famous.
I liked his wife very much. Both of them are exeptionally good people.
Because they were away for so long they did not know and did not did not understand how much things have changed.
I liked it when the wife said when they wanted to provide police escort that in old time it was only provided for Russian elite (communist party) and she doesn't want it.
He was so nice when he tried to calm her down.
There was still a lot of old style Soviet ways there. I could see it. But there were new things too. There were bandits that demanded money and crime, etc, but people were not afraid to speak.
It is difficult to understand people when you live isolated for so long. I think one's imagination starts going in unrealistic way.
Everything is so shabby there. My friends kept telling me how lucky we are to be here. I sometimes forget with my nostalgia how bad things were and still are.
Sorry, I could not write something more meaningful.
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Swan_Knight
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« Reply #11 on: 21:20:34, 25-08-2008 » |
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No apology necessary, t-p. I've recently been travelling in Romania - my first visit to a former communist country - and I recognise a lot of what you mention.
I wasn't able to see the Solzhenitsyn programme, but I've been following the comments on his death with interest.....it strikes me that he reached a somewhat banal conclusion: communism was a god that failed and the west was materialist and decadent. Surely that's the conclusion just about any sane person comes to?
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #12 on: 22:01:37, 25-08-2008 » |
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Romania was my first former communist country, last November, and I was very taken. Seen any good painted churches, sk?
I am on the home straight with Cancer Ward at the moment. I'll post some thoughts when I've finished it.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #13 on: 22:04:36, 25-08-2008 » |
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I am on the home straight with Cancer Ward at the moment. DonB, you're a marvel! |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #14 on: 22:05:28, 25-08-2008 » |
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Thank you, don Basilio. I am very interested to know what you think about Cancer Ward. I will have to refresh my memories. May be today is a good day to do it.
I remember liking the book. I was afraid to read it, taken into account the name etc.
But it was not a depressing book. Of course it was not a jolly happy sort of a book, I remember, but interesting.
I remember I liked it.
Swan_Knight
At the end Solzhenitsyn did not understand neither the West, nor Russia.
Russia that he knew had dissappeared. In the West he lived in Vermont, if I am not mistaken. He lived in a big estate surounded by a big wall. He saw life in the United States and in the West in general from his villa may be on TV.
He was a very intelligent man, but in my opinion he lost touch with reality.
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