Cinema and history. 100 most discussed historical films

The new book of the famous historian of cinema and film critic, candidate of art history, employee of the Kommersant Publishing House, is dedicated to the genre so popular among the audience as “historical cinema”. Historians can repeat as much as you like that history is not melodrama, not noir and not computer fun, but directors and scriptwriters are still pulling from the movie screen the sorrows of Maria Stuart or Catherine the Great, the attempt by Count von Stauffenberg for Hitler or the murder of Kirov - Like Noir, the events of the Time of Troubles in Russia or the associations of Italy - as the novel "Cloak and swords", and the Kursk battle - as a game "in tanks".
This book is a thorough and highly professional analysis of the 100 most striking, interesting and controversial historical paintings of world cinema: from Johnny D. "," Operation "Valkyrie" and "Operation" Argo to "Tired of the Sun -2: Citadel" , "Matilda" and "28 Panfilovs"