Word: yevtushenko
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...Sacrifice is only the seventh feature film in a career that began with the lyrical, prize-laden My Name Is Ivan (1962). Tarkovsky was just 30 then, the son of a renowned Soviet poet and the rising sun of the Soviet film establishment -- a cinema Yevtushenko. But soon his artistic intransigence and the supposed obscurity of his themes nettled the bureaucracy that financed his films. The epic Andrei Rublev, completed in 1966, was not released in the U.S.S.R. until 1971; Solaris (1972), based on the Stanislaw Lem novel, suffered official censure; the lusciously enigmatic Mirror (1978) and Stalker (1979) sealed...
...this an evening to interrogate my honesty? I am fed up with such shameful questions," Yevtushenko angrily declared as members of the audience bombarded him with accusatory questions...
...spoke in a Russian accent but would not identify himself, said as he exited the hall, "Yevtushenko used to be a great poet. Millions of people followed him. But he sold his soul to the authorities...
...Yevtushenko, who came to Cambridge from the film's premiere in New York, is tenatively scheduled to return to Boston on Friday for the film's opening at Coolidge Corner...
...Yevtushenko recently captured international headlines when he denounced Sylvester Stallone's films, "Rocky IV" and "Rambo: First Blood, Part II" as "warnography." Yevtushenko told a press gathering in the Soviet Union that the films' images of violence toward Soviets undermined friendly relations between the U.S. and the USSR...