Contents -- Preface -- Introduction Cinepaternity: The Psyche and Its Heritage -- One Thaw, Stagnation, Perestroika -- 1 The Myth of the "Great Family" in Marlen Khutsiev's Lenin's Guard and Mark Osep'ian'sThree Days of Viktor Chernyshev -- 2 Mending the Rupture: The War Trope and the Return of the Imperial Father in 1970s Cinema -- 3 Models of Male Kinship in Perestroika Cinema -- Two War in the Post-Soviet Dialogue with Paternity -- 4 The Fathers' War through the Sons' Lens -- 5 War as the Family Value: Failing Fathers and Monstrous Sons in My Stepbrother Frankenstein -- 6 A Surplus of Surrogates: Mashkov's Fathers Helena Goscilo -- Three Reconceiving Filial Bonds -- 7 Resurrected Fathers and Resuscitated Sons: Homosocial Fantasies in The Return and Koktebel -- 8 The Forces of Kinship: Timur Bekmambetov's NightWatch Cinematic Trilogy -- 9 Fathers, Sons, and Brothers: Redeeming Patriarchal Authority in The Brigade -- Four Auteurs and the Psychological/Philosophical -- 10 Fraught Filiation: Andrei Tarkovsky's Transformations of Personal Trauma -- 11 Vision and Blindness in Sokurov's Father and Son -- Contributors -- Index.