The Desert of Forbidden Art
2011-03-18 | 80 minutes
Plot Summary
How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags. Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art but instead daringly rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artist's works and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from the watchful eyes of the KGB. Though a penniless artist himself, he cajoles the cash to pay for the art from the same authorities who are banning it. Savitsky amasses an eclectic mix of Russian Avant-Garde art. But his greatest discovery is an unknown school of artists who settle in Uzbekistan after the Russian revolution of 1917, encountering a unique Islamic culture, as exotic to them as Tahiti was for Gauguin. They develop a startlingly original style, fusing European modernism with centuries-old Eastern traditions.
Cast
Recommendations
-
With a Right to Kill
-
All Monsters Attack
-
The Return of Martin Guerre
-
The Saragossa Manuscript
-
Star!
-
The Cremator
-
Absolut
-
Arthur
-
Inferno
-
Return to Horror Hotel
-
To Have and Have Not
-
Ran
-
Stalked by My Doctor: The Return
-
Flow
-
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6
-
The Great War
-
Blow-Up
-
The Postman Always Rings Twice
-
Son of Frankenstein
-
The Return of the King
Similar Movies
-
Rated X
-
Religulous
-
The Devil Came on Horseback
-
Bruce Springsteen, le chanteur qui murmurait à l'oreille de l'Amérique
-
By the Ravine
-
Grizzly Man
-
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
-
Paul Newman: The Restless
-
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
-
Mr. X
-
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
-
Julia
-
L'Âge d'or de la pub
-
Coco Before Chanel
-
100 Years
-
Site of Sites
-
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
-
Le Diable de la République : 40 ans de Front national
-
I Am
-
Flying Supersonic