I came across these photos and, um, I think they're quite beautiful.
And this is the Soviet back lot where they would shoot their movies,
but it's like the Warner brothers backlog, except for,
they shot so many movies here, like from the,
from the twenties on to even very recently.
And so I look at these photos and it's just, it's a,
it's like another version of Hollywood, but it's,
but one that we're not familiar with,
even though I feel like I know a lot about this place,
although I think some of our viewers might be able to tell us more, but I, I,
I've seen so many movies that incorporated this place. So, you know,
let's look at some of these pictures.
Well, first of all, uh, so do we know where this, where they are,
where, where this was specifically?
Well, where it is specifically, it's still there, so I'm not sure exactly.
And the first thing we are looking at is not a city it's miniatures that have
been flooded, but they're quite beautiful when you look at them.
But do you know which city it's, it's supposed meant to represent?
I think it's outside of Moscow. Right? And it's, you know,
so many movies have been shot there, Eisenstein shot,
battleship Potemkin in this place, you know, Tarkovsky shot,
Andre Rugaloff here, even, um, even people like, um,
Kosawa came here to do that, uh, the movie and the wilderness,
uh whatever, I'm not pronouncing it. Right.
But I think that was all made here. So when you look at it,
it's just a place filled and imbued with history in a
way that we'd did. Don't really, you know,
it's like a akin to what we know about, but it's slightly different, you know?
Well, what do you.
Think makes it different? Cause it, is it the detail? I mean,
it's the not glossy. When you think of the Hollywood studios back in the day,
everything was pretty right. This, yeah. This is different.
This has the patina and the oldness,
the oldness of the right of Russia of like the, of Eastern Europe. What.
And it's like Pushkin, gonna walk out of any building, you know, it's crazy.
Exactly.
But in, but the, the irony is to see the scale of it. Like, you know,
it's a model and it's.
It's, you know, Gogle or just .
Any of these guys could have been in this little village. What do,
what do you think Martina?
Think it's fantastic.
I think that it just the emotion I get from just even seeing these
buildings and then you cut to the picture where the guys as tall as the building
yeah.
Yeah. It's kind of fabulous, right? Yeah.
Incredible. You know, the, the church, you know,
with all the Soviet Spires on top with the crosses is quite beautiful.
Yeah.
They're, I mean, they managed to even do that Orthodox church. It's incredible.
Yeah. It's, it's a, it's a haunted piece of history that we,
we can't really understand cuz it's just not the way we make movies here,
but it's, I think it's really something.
But it also speaks to, well, first of all, how much do I miss traveling?
Mm-hmm cause Jesse, I, we were in Moscow remember. Sure.
And we've been many places in around the world in particular,
Eastern Europe and the sense of place and it's and history and
history doesn't mean 300 years or 400 years. It's thousands of years.
And so to celebrate that and to I miss that, that,
that sense of the past again, which I know, I always argue with you,
why are we always talking about the past in our podcast? But when I see this,
it makes me really appreciate the past.
Yeah. What it means.
I love this last photo of the interior of the church with all the icons,
you know, it could be right out of a Tarkovsky movie. It's quite beautiful.
Yeah. I wonder how small they really are.
Well, those look like they're life size, but it'd be lovely to go into,
is it this place?
And we don't know where it is.
I think it's outside Moscow. It's quite famous in Russia. You know,
it's been around a long time.
Martina, look at that. Look at the, I know you've talked about it, but the, uh,
the, the blue, the turquoise in, in the church. Beautiful. And,
and look at all that detail. If you just click into it, it's like
really incredible.
Mm. Okay. Well, if anybody has anything to comment on that, I'd love to hear it.
Especially if we could find somebody who really understood it or maybe work
there in the past. Come on and talk to us about that a little bit.
That would be a lovely thing.
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