Russian cinema in the conventional sense began in 1908, with the production of the first live-action film *Stenka Razin*, a ten-minute silent short dedicated to the eponymous ill-fated leader of a Cossack uprising against the Russian Tsar. A century later, the film that was in many ways produced to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Russian cinema was *Admiral*, a period epic dedicated to another larger-than-lif…More