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Alexandra Series: The 45th New York Film Festival [Sep 28 - Oct 14 2007] Director: Alexander Sokurov, Country: Russia, Release: 2007, Runtime: 92 No living filmmaker has been more obsessed with the state of the Russian soul than Alexander Sokurov. In his viscerally powerful Alexandra, this great filmmaker ponders the cost of war. Mother Russia herself, a blunt, grimly humorous, and totally unintimidated babushka (indelibly played by octogenarian opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya) pays a visit to her grandson's unit in Chechnya. She rides among the young recruits in a troop transport and later, a tank; however incongruous, her tour of inspection through this dusty, sun-bleached landscape has a terrible familiarity. Seldom has a filmmaker so directly addressed his fellow citizens.

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