Boy Meets Tractor: The WLBOTT Film Festival

WLBOTT film critic Clemetine DuCinema, starting just yesterday, has already made a big impact on the film world.

She has announced the first WLBOTT Annual Film Festival. This year’s theme: Boy Meets Tractor – A Celebration of Soviet Cinema.

The Program

Steel Hearts and Sunflowers (1954)

He swore allegiance to the state… 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.

Love in the Time of Lubrication (1943).

A gritty, wrench-heavy melodrama in which Nadia confronts her rival—an imported Belarus MTZ-82 with chrome trim.

The Harvest of Betrayal (1960).

Bohdan tills the soil of Belarus and the soil of human emotion. But can his beloved T-34 compete with Larysa’s dumplings?

She Who Walks Behind the Combine (1978).

Part romance, part horror. Oksana takes revenge on the tractor by joining a rival kolkhoz. The tractor, abandoned, rusts in symbolic agony.

The Thresher of My Dreams (1986)

A surreal final entry in the Soviet agricultural genre, featuring dream sequences, floating chickens, and a haunting monologue delivered directly into the radiator.