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Andrey Zvyagintsev (*Leviathan*) proffers an ambitious exploration of the human condition in his second feature. Much like his critically acclaimed debut *The Return*, the film investigates bonds of family, this time tackling the relationship between a husband and wife. A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city. Eschewing easy answers and tackling a wide array of themes, THE BANISHMENT poetically...
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Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma. The town's corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, and his land.
4) The Return
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Winner of the Golden Lion at the **Venice International Film Festival**, THE RETURN is a mixture of psychological thriller and road movie, telling the story of two young brothers who must cope with the sudden and unexplained return of their father after a 12-year absence. The three embark on a road trip that becomes a background for self-discovery and the destruction of deeply rooted emotional investments. Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film...
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"Sluchayetsya v zhizni tak, chto v dom prikhodyat gore i bednost'. Dlya vzroslykh eto prichina pechalit'sya, mnogo rabotat', dumat' o vlozheniyakh i kreditakh... A dlya detey (osobenno, yesli v sem'ye ikh shestero) -- eto prekrasnyy povod zanyat'sya poiskom sokrovishch. O, stoit tol'ko khoroshen'ko podumat', i otyshchetsya tysyacha sposobov popolnit' semeynyy byudzhet! Mozhno perekopat' sad v poiskakh klada. Mozhno poluchit' gonorar za knigu stikhov...
6) The Mirror
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Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, imges of Tarkovsky's childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life--a child's wartime exile, a mother's experience with political terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home--all intermingled with slow-motion dream sequences and poetic chunks of stark newsreels.
7) Evil boy
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Several years after their son's disappearance, a grieving couple adopts a feral boy, who eerily begins to resemble their Vania more with each passing day. While the wife believes they have found their son, her husband is certain that Vania died. As strange accidents begin happening around the boy, the pair soon has cause to wonder whether they may have adopted something not entirely human.
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Matvey has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend's parents' apartment and kill her father Andrey with a hammer to restore her honor. But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey's attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don't quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable - not to mention ruthless - opponent than he anticipated, and Matvey, for his part, proves stubbornly unwilling to die.
12) Banishment
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The film investigates the bonds of family, this time tackling the relationship between a husband and wife. A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city. Eschewing easy answers and tackling a wide array of themes, it poetically renders the persistent human state of exile from our surroundings.
15) Vozvrashchenie
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Young brothers Andrei and Ivan have grown close in a household their father abandoned. But when they least expect it, the man the boys have never known returns. Eager and bewildered, Andrei and Ivan join this mysterious stranger for a week long fishing trip. As they travel deeper into the Russian wilderness, their journey devolves from vacation to boot camp, turning into a violent test of wills.
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Malenʹkiĭ krolik Dzhimmi idet na pli͡azh so svoeĭ semʹeĭ. Tam on uznaet o vazhnosti pomoshchi drugim. Kogda peschanyĭ zamok Dzhimmi razrushaetsi͡a volnoĭ, oni rabotai͡ut vmeste, chtoby postroitʹ eshche bolʹshiĭ i luchshiĭ zamok. Vse rabotaet luchshe, kogda my pomogaem drug drugu.
Jimmy the little bunny goes to the beach with his family. There he learns about the importance of helping others. When Jimmy's sandcastle is destroyed by the...
17) Glini͡anyĭ most
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The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father's disappearance. At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge--for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle. The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much...
18) Tolstovskiĭ dom
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"A novel about the lives of several families living in the famous Tolstoy apartment building in St. Petersburg. This book is about their lives, full of disappointments and success, the last few decades, and so on."--
19) Nemai͡a devochka
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An idyllic white, two-storey, beautiful house in Sweden. Inside, a family has been brutally murdered - mother, father and two young children all shot in broad daylight. And the killer has got away. Sebastian Bergman has been brought in to solve the crime, but with no credible suspects, he is at a dead end. Until he discovers that there was a witness to the crime. A young girl who saw it all happen, and she has disappeared. Bergman has to track the...
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"Burnt by the Sun 2: a Russian drama film directed by and starring Nikita Mikhalkov. It is the sequel to Mikhalkov's 1994 film Burnt by the Sun. In the end of the previous movie, Burnt by the Sun, the main protagonist general Kotov was executed by NKVD. But, according to the new movie, he was sent to a labor camp instead. As Nazi Germany invades Soviet Union, Kotov, along with his few surviving camp-fellows, is drafted to a penal military unit, to...
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