Daniel Aobdia, First: the rise of a video industry that provided the necessary technology to screen the influx of films on VHS imported from Western Europe and Hollywood into the Soviet Union. As women entered the work force, their obligation to serve a domineering patriarch did not diminish. The following does not profess to be a detailed account of every cinematic example from the Soviet period that might qualify as a buddy film. However, the montage of attractions, the filming of life caught unawares, the use of representative social types rather than positive heroes led, as is well known, to accusations of formalism.
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