Kievs IN films ?

[dee]

I caught the end of an undistinquished film called '' Under a Tuscan Sun ''
where a Polish character uses a Kiev 4 - seemingly without focusing !

Has anyone glimpsed an ex-USSR camera in a film ?

[rxmd]

Well the most prominent example would probably be Krysztof Kieślowski's "Camera Buff" ("Amator (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078763/)") of 1979, which very prominently features Soviet cameras, such as the grand scene where he turns his Krasnogorsk-3 movie camera on himself in the end. ;)

[mhv]

I love Amator!

Even though knowing the K-3 is not synched for sound somehow ruins the final scene.

[dee]

I confess that I have not seen Amator .

[chambrenoire]

Saw Milk (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013753/) yesterday (which landed an Oscar for Sean Penn I think), I believe he uses a Kiev (or maybe a Contax)

http://www.ohlalamag.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/29/seanpennmilk29182.jpg

[chambrenoire]

Sorry, it was a Nikon RF.
http://i41.tinypic.com/kf01ec.jpg

http://i42.tinypic.com/mim6id.jpg

[TVphotog]

My wife watches some of the mystery movies on the Hallmark channel here in the US. In one of the movies, the main character uses a Zorki 3. It might be a leica, but there is no name on it so it is hard to tell. In my mind, it is and always will be a Zorki 3. I know that this thread is about Kievs, but that is the only FSU sighting I have had.

[Kino Glaz]

The submarine movie "K-19" featured a FED-1 or Zorki-1. Appears in the scene where the submarine surfaces in an arctic glacier. A crew man shoots the other crew playing football on ice with FED or Zorki camera.

[dee]

Thanks everyone - I should have extended it to Zorki/Feds in films

[Spider67]

In "Indigenes" aka "Days of Glory" a french movie about French Colonial troops in WWII a reporter uses a Zorki C (or 2C) as a stand in for a Leica.