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Predictions of Fire (1996) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypDY1qx0ma4 Documentary about the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) and Laibach, an art collective and band from Slovenia (starting in 1980s Yugoslavia) that blends together totalitarian kitsch with Western rock music, which opens the group up to every possible interpretation. According to Laibach: "All art is subject to political manipulation ... except for that which speaks the language of this same manipulation. To speak in political terms means to reveal and acknowledge the omnipresence of politics." Slavoj Zizek also makes an appearance and says that the ideal political subject of the modern age is one who takes an ironic approach to politics. Laibach is completely serious and unironic, by blending all this imagery together, avoids being co-opted. Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZhgXs_iFRs A 12-hour-long Soviet espionage drama about a patriotic Soviet spy sent to disrupt the Operation Sunrise negotiations between the Western allies and Nazi Germany. Probably the most popular Soviet television show and reflected Cold War tropes on the surface level. Some critics have interpreted the film as a subtle critique of the Soviet system at the same time by making a sly comparison to the Nazi bureaucracy. Funny enough, the film came about as a result of a campaign by then-KGB chief Yuri Andropov to improve the KGB's image with spy thrillers and novels. Andropov would of course become general secretary in 1982.
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