{"id":46938,"date":"2025-03-27T06:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=46938"},"modified":"2025-03-27T06:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:57:20","slug":"boy-meets-tractor-the-wlbott-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=46938","title":{"rendered":"Boy Meets Tractor: The WLBOTT Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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WLBOTT <\/strong>film critic Clemetine DuCinema, starting just yesterday, has already made a big impact on the film world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has announced the first WLBOTT<\/strong> Annual Film Festival. This year’s theme: Boy Meets Tractor – A Celebration of Soviet Cinema<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Steel Hearts and Sunflowers (1954)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

He swore allegiance to the state\u2026 but also to the Model D-27. His beautiful girlfriend Oksana wants him to look at her the way he looks at the fuel injection system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Love in the Time of Lubrication (1943).<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A gritty, wrench-heavy melodrama in which Nadia confronts her rival\u2014an imported Belarus MTZ-82 with chrome trim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Harvest of Betrayal (1960).<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bohdan tills the soil of Belarus and the soil of human emotion. But can his beloved T-34 compete with Larysa\u2019s dumplings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She Who Walks Behind the Combine (1978).<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Part romance, part horror. Oksana takes revenge on the tractor by joining a rival kolkhoz. The tractor, abandoned, rusts in symbolic agony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Thresher of My Dreams (1986)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A surreal <\/em><\/strong>final entry in the Soviet agricultural genre, featuring dream sequences, floating chickens, and a haunting monologue delivered directly into the radiator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tickets Available Soon!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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