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The Revolution of 1917 dramatically changed the lives of millions of people and  millions of citizens of former Russia left their homes and fled to Berlin, Paris, London, and other countries.

All post-revolutionary emigrants in Soviet Russia were called “white emigration” (in contrast to the “red” rule of the Bolsheviks). The purpose of my research is: to consider how the images of “white emigrants” were presented in Soviet media, primarily, in films.

My concept is that Soviet films of  different political periods (1920s, 1930s, 1960s and 1980s) portrayed “White” emigrants in different ways, as the attitude of the Soviet government towards emigrants changed.

If immediately after the October Revolution, in the 1920s, white emigrants in Soviet films were portrayed exclusively as dangerous enemies of the Soviet regime, then in the 1930s and 1940s the emigrant was portrayed as a person who has lost his homeland and has homesick.  However, in the 1960s and 1980s, the type of portrayal changed again, and the White emigrants were portrayed as guardians of the “true” Russian culture that the citizens of the Soviet state had lost.

I plan to consider the films: Zvenigora” 1928, “You cannot enter the city” 1929, “People and Beasts” 1962,  “A Fault of Resident” 1968, ”Running” (“Бег”) 1970, and others.