The Soviet Union ran the largest state film industry that has ever existed, and it was never a single thing: Mosfilm in Moscow, Dovzhenko in Kyiv, Armenfilm in Yerevan and a dozen more, funded centrally and censored centrally. Once Stalin died and the Thaw let a camera move again, it became possible for a director to be handed enormous resources for a film that would then be locked in a vault for years. Andrei Rublev sat there for five, The Colour of Pomegranates was taken away from Paradjanov and re-cut, and Come and See waited eight years for permission to be made at all.