‘Imperium’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa Brings Together Nearly Three Hours of Italian Footage From the Early 1970s Covering the Vastness of the USSR
In the early 1970s, Italian film crews spread out across the USSR, capturing a vast, multicultural empire few had ever seen in such diversity. From urban commuters to village fêtes, Baku trawlers to Siberian reindeer herders, the cameramen aimed to capture the Soviet polity at a time when Westerners