Introduction: cinepaternity: the psyche and its heritage
Thaw, stagnation, Perestroika. The myth of the "great family" in Marlen Khutsiev's Lenin's guard and Mark Osep'ian's Three days of Viktor Chernyshev / Alexander Prokhorov
Mending the rupture: the war trope and the return of the imperial father in 1970s cinema / Elena Prokhorova
Models of male kinship in Perestroika cinema / Seth Graham
War in the post-Soviet dialogue with paternity. The fathers' war through the sons' lens / Tatiana Smorodinskaya
War as the family value: failing fathers and monstrous sons in My stepbrother Frankenstein / Mark Lipovetsky
A surplus of surrogates: Mashkov's Fathers / Helena Goscilo
Reconceiving filial bonds. Resurrected fathers and resuscitated sons: homosocial fantasies in The return and Koktebel / Yana Hashamova
The forces of kinship: Timur Bekmambetov's Night watch cinematic trilogy / Vlad Strukov
Fathers, sons, and brothers: redeeming patriarchal authority in The brigade / Brian James Baer
Auteurs and the psychological/philosophical. Fraught filiation: Andrei Tarkovsky's Transformations of personal trauma / Helena Goscilo
Vision and blindness in Sokurov's Father and son / José Alaniz.