{"id":29191,"date":"2025-05-23T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?post_type=guests&#038;p=29191"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:40:18","slug":"andrei-plahov","status":"publish","type":"guests","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/guests\/andrei-plahov\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrei Plahov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is hard to imagine a better choice to give a masterclass on the classic <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Battleship Potemkin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1925) from a century ago than film historian Andrei Plahov. Plahov has written a book on the history of Soviet cinema, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Soviet Cinema<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1988), as well as books on Catherine Deneuve, Luchino Visconti and Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plahov has been a critic and writer since the 1970s. His work has appeared in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guardian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sight and Sound<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cahiers du Cin\u00e9ma<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and he has served as a jury member at both the Cannes Film Festival and the Berlinale. He has also served as president of Fipresci, the International Federation of Film Critics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Political history has left its mark on the work of Plahov, who was born in what is now Ukraine. During the perestroika period, he headed a commission that released films that had been banned for ideological reasons during the Soviet era. In 2022, he was one of the filmmakers who signed a petition against Russia&#8217;s war of aggression in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Kaisu Tervonen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is hard to imagine a better choice to give a masterclass on the classic Battleship Potemkin (1925) from a century ago than film historian Andrei Plahov.","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29189,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29191","guests","type-guests","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Andrei Plahov &#8212; Midnight Sun Film Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/guests\/andrei-plahov\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Andrei Plahov &#8212; 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