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The Soviet Union had more than half of all
the cinemas in he world, and they used to sell about 80 million
tickets a week (at an average price of 30 pence). They showed some
foreign films - heavily censored not only for political content but
also for eroticism - but mainly domestic productions. Some 150
features in several languages were produced each year in 40 studios
in Moscow and other cities. Many of these films are of very high
quality - well acted, artistically staged and expertly photographed.
The Communist regime early singled out film-making as an at form to
be cultivated, and the influential work prominent Russian directors
of the 1920s - Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin and Alexander
Dovzhenko - has been carried forward by 1930-1980s film makers.
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