The Holloway File: Intro

This is the only complete index of the films and filmmakers of the ex-USSR. It has been assembled by its author, film scholar Ron Holloway, from many original sources including correspondence with the filmmakers. Where information was available from ex-Soviet archives, he has attempted to verify it, and has corrected it as needed. He updates it regularly. For ease of browsing and searching, it is a single large document. THE DATABASE WILL TAKE SEVERAL MINUTES TO LOAD. CLICK HERE TO BEGIN LOADING THE HOLLOWAY FILE.

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Ron Holloway
For the past 25 years Holloway has been a Berlin-based correspondent on film, television and the media for Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Moving Pictures International. He has written articles on film, theater and cultural affairs for the Financial Times and the Herald Tribune.

He is the author of six books on film history and criticism. Together with his actress wife, Dorothea Moritz, he has published the quarterly magazine KINO German Film and International Reports since 1979. The two have also collaborated on four documentaries: Made In Germany (1985); Sundance (1986); Klimov (1988); and Parajanov (1994). In addition to contributions to several film lexicons, anthologies and essay collections, his selected publications include Z Is For Zagreb (1972); Beyond The Image (1977); O Is For Oberhausen (1979); The Bulgarian Cinema (1986); Goran Paskaljevic: The Human Tragicomedy (1996); and KINO Macedonian Film (1997).

Born 26 November 1933 in Peoria, Illinois, Holloway received his B.A. in Philosophy and M.A. in Religious Philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago. He completed his Ph.D. studies at the University of Hamburg in Germany with a dissertation on the Religious Dimension In The Cinema, with particular reference to the films of Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman and Robert Bresson. He co-founded the Chicago Center for Film Study and the Cleveland Cinematheque, and was honored with a Rockefeller Fellowship 1969-70.