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Eastern European Directors

Directors from Eastern Europe and Russia, including Kyrstof Kieslowski, Roman Polanski, Sergei Eistenstein, and Andrei Tarkovsky.
The Man From London
Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr is back with a slow-moving black-and-white work of art that will dazzle the faithful and bore the stuffing out of everybody else.
Roman Polanksi
A review of Roman Polanski's 1962 debut film "A Knife In The Water."
Sergei Eisenstein
A good biography of this Russian film director and theoretician, known as the father of the montage.
Ildiko Enyedi
Hungarian director Ildiko Enyedi's first feature My Twentieth Century took the Camera D'Or at Cannes in 1989.
Agnieszka Holland
Home page for the director of Washington Square, The Secret Garden, Total Eclipse, and others. In Polish and English.
Vyacheslav Krishtofovich
The filmography of this prolific writer and director out of the Ukraine.
Nikita Milkalkov
Outstanding site offers in-depth biography and information on Mikholkov's films. Best known for Burnt by the Sun.
Istvan Szabo
The filmography of Istvan Szabo, director of such influential films as "Sunshine" and the upcoming film "Being Julia."
Andrei Tarkovsky
Well done site offers biography, extensive film information, articles and film stills on the director of Solaris and Andrei Rublev.
Andrzej Wajda
The great Polish directors whose wartime trilogy of A Generation, Kanal and Ashes and Diamonds remains one of the finest achievements of Eastern European cinema.

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