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Eastern European and Post-Soviet Cinema

This child group of European Cinema collects that broader group's members whose primary country of origin is the Soviet Union, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic or former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, or a former Yugoslav successor state (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia among them), read from the member's own recorded Country fact or its description text, spanning Soviet-era cinema, the Czechoslovak New Wave and post-Yugoslav war cinema.

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1896 1
Russia's own record of the Lumiere brothers' first screenings, used as representative of the region; other countries in this bucket have their own separate arrival dates not sourced individually this pass.
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Wikimedia FoundationCinema of Russia, History section, Lumiere brothers sentence
Quote, Cinema of Russia, History section, Lumiere brothers sentence
The first films seen in the Russian Empire were brought in by the Lumière brothers, who exhibited films in Moscow and St. Petersburg in May 1896.
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