Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and their Movies by Louis Menashe

Retail: Hardcover $38.00 or Paperback: $28.00

Cineaste Prices: Hardcover: $31.00 or Paperback: $22.00

This unique collection of writings and interviews highlights the important role that cinema can play for understanding Russian history, politics, culture and society in all phases—Tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet. This is the book for the Russian movie aficionado—personal, pointed, funny, frank and full of all kinds of inside stories and political folk tales. It is a fascinating window on Soviet/Russian pop culture that only a cultural Marco Polo and fanatical moviegoer like Cineaste Associate Louis Menashe would even dare attempt. 442 pp., illus. Paperback.