Russian Film Screening: Ugly Duckling 4/29/24 1p Standish Room

Come to a screening of Garri Bardin’s modern Russian clay-animation classic The Ugly Duckling on Monday 4/29/24 from 1-4 p.m. in the Standish Room of the Science Library. The film, a moving political allegory based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale with music by Tchaikovsky, is in Russian with English subtitles, and will be introduced with a lecture by Russian critic, poet and political commentator Dmitry Bykov, followed by questions and answers with the director, Bardin, via Zoom. Sponsored by the Departments of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) and English, the Center for Humanities, Arts and Technoscience, the Writing and Critical Inquiry program, and other UAlbany units.