S. Voloshina

“HIS STORY REFLECTED THE NATURE OF OUR CIVILIZATION...”: FROM THE “SHAME OF ONE’S OWN OPINION” TO CINEMATIC CHARACTERS WITHOUT QUALITIES IN A TOTALITARIAN SOCIETY

The article examines the representation of authoritarian and conformist characters in European and American cinema of the second half of the twenti- eth century, focusing on Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist, Louis Malle’s Lacombe Lucien, and Woody Allen’s Zelig. The analysis takes its starting point from Fyodor Dos...