Round 6: Tossup 16

In a film from this country, a boy is forced (-5[1])to watch as soldiers set fire to a barn with people inside. A room filled with (-5[1])sand dunes appears in a 1979 film from this country set in a mysterious “Zone.” A composer from this country scored a nationalist film that includes the Battle on the Ice. A (15[1])film (15[1])from (15[1])this country combines images (15[1])of a woman’s face with broken glasses, a baby (*) carriage, and rebellious soldiers marching down the Odessa Steps. The films Come and See and Stalker were created in this (10[1])country, whose montage-heavy films include Battleship Potemkin. For 10 points, name this home country of the directors Sergei Eisenstein and Andrei Tarkovsky. ■END■

ANSWER: Soviet Union [or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; accept USSR or CCCP; accept Russia or Belarus or Ukraine] (Battle on the Ice is from Alexander Nevsky and is by Prokofiev.)
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