Konstanty Kuzma is the co-founder and co-editor of the East European Film Bulletin. He studied Philosophy in Berlin, Berkeley, and Munich. He completed his doctoral studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation and is a research fellow (“wiss. Mitarbeiter”) at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Stuttgart.Moritz Pfeifer is the co-founder and co-editor of the East European Film Bulletin. He studied Philosophy, Sociology and Economics in Berlin and Paris. He holds a PhD from the University of Nanterre in Paris and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Economic Policy of the University of Leipzig.

• List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction KONSTANTY KUZMA AND MORITZ PFEIFER PART I Redefining the Identity of the City1 A Hollowed City: Łódź in Cinema EWA MAZIERSKA 2 Cinema and Urban Culture in 1930s Lviv: The Circle of the Awangarda Magazine MAŁGORZATA RADKIEWICZ 3 Flooded Streets and Hollow Monuments: Aesthetics of Political Legitimacy in Revolutionary Cinemas KONSTANTY KUZMA 4 Beneath the Surface of Minsk: Struggle Over Identity in Contemporary Belarusian Cinema ANTONIS LAGARIAS PART IIThe Legacy of War 5 Cinema Palaces and Military Barracks: Assimilating the Post-German Space—Cinema in Divided Towns on the Polish–German Border after 1945 MAGDALENA ABRAHAM-DIEFENBACH 6 Wrocław as the Protagonist of See You on Sunday (1959) ANDRZEJ DĘBSKI 7 The Donbas as a Metaphor: The Representation of Post-Industrial and Wartime Landscapes after 2014KATERYNA IAKOVLENKO PART III Utopian Spaces8 Between the Town and the Countryside: Utopian Images and Expanses within Soviet Belarusian Films OLGA ROMANOVA 9 The Grain, the Tractor, and the City: VUFKU and the Urban–Rural Conflict (1928–1931) MORITZ PFEIFER 10 Filming Utopia: Atomic Towns in Soviet Ukrainian Documentaries before Chornobyl STANISLAV MENZELEVSKYI Index