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OIFF Update: "My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan" (2016)
One of the most exciting pictures of OIFF’s National Competition program is “My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan” which was presented on the fifth day of...
An Interview With Jerome Vacher, The Outgoing IMF Representative In Ukraine
The French IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine, Jerome Vacher, was appointed to his position in the spring of 2013, and is now leaving his...
Peter Zalmayev Speaks With Timothy Snyder
Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna is one of the world’s leading scholars on the history...
Ivan Kozlenko And The Fight to Reclaim Ukrainian Cinema
A profile of the young Odessa born film aficionado placed in charge of reforming the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Archives.
When I meet Ivan Kozlenko...
OIFF Update: “My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan” (2016)
One of the most exciting pictures of OIFF’s National Competition program is “My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan” which was presented on the fifth day of...
A Dialogue With Historian Serhii Plokhii
Serhii Plokhii is one of the most prominent contemporary historians specializing in the history of Ukraine across the English speaking world. Plokhii is the...
Son Of Saul wins Oscar: ‘The Kindergarten Teacher Who Won Cannes’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6MJZnDV27U
The searing and remarkable Hungarian holocaust film 'Son of Saul’ won the Oscar for 'best foreign film' last night. The Odessa Review's chief editor...
Babel: the Black Sea Bard
The Odessa Review pays tribute to Odessa’s most influential and inspirational literary figure
Isaac Babel’s short story collections, ‘The Odessa Tales’ and ‘Red Cavalry’ remain...
Letter From Odessa: The Non-Socialist City, Capitalist Realism And Donald Trump
A scholar of Stalinist architecture muses on its strange revivals in 21st century Russia and Ukraine.
During each of the past two summers, I spent...
The Art and Science of Translating Babel
In 1929, the great American literary critic Lionel Trilling read a book “about Soviet regiments of horse operating in Poland” that disturbed him, charged,...
