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1) Faust
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Russian
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Based on Goethe’s classic about a man who sells his soul to the devil so he can make his wish come true.
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Based on a famous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN is one of director Aleksandr Ptushko’s most sublime creations: a ravishingly beautiful fantasy about love, magic, betrayal and abandoned family. Like his earlier masterpieces Sampo and Ilya Muromets (also released by Deaf Crocodile), TSAR SALTAN is filled with breathtaking imagery: carved wooden lions who shed tears; peasants in pagan ritual masks, dancing in the...
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"The Angel and the Author and Others" is a cycle of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome, an outstanding British writer and humourist (1859 — 1927). The collection consists of 19 essays, in which the author is more engaged by moral and ethic issues, the inner world of characters, behavior psychology. Here there is less sparkling humour, peculiar to the writer's early works.
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"Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)" is a short novel, which is one of the best works by a magnificent playwright and a classic of humorous prose Jerome Klapka Jerome. It is a story about a voyage up the Thames of three English gentlemen and a dog named Montmorency, who get into the most comic and curious situations on their way.
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"A Man of Habit" is a well-known essay by Jerome Klapka Jerome, an outstanding British writer and humourist (1859 — 1927). While going by boat from North America to England, the travellers share their stories about the power of habit — how a widower cannot fall asleep without his wife's snort, another man has lunch in the middle of the night, after a change of time zone, and so on.
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In a distant Montenegrin village, being a boy, Miki receives from his grandfather special secret knowledge and a notebook with prescriptions for treating many serious diseases including cancer. The grandfather revealed to his receiver a mystery, how to obtain supernatural abilities that only the chosen one has. When Miki grew up, many high-ranking individuals and criminal authorities became aware of this notebook and they wanted to use secret knowledge...
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When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final film, a phantasmagoric adaptation of the revered sci-fi novel by the Strugatsky brothers (authors of the source novel for Tarkovsky's Stalker). Hard to be a God began percolating in German's consciousness in themid-1960s, and would actively consume him for the last 15 years of his life. Hebrought the film close enough to completion for his wife and son...
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The #1 Bestseller!
From #1 Bestselling author Morgan Rice comes the debut of a dazzling new fantasy series. A QUEST OF HEROES (BOOK #1 IN THE SORCERER'S RING) revolves around the epic coming of age story of one special boy, a 14 year old from a small village on the outskirts of the Kingdom of the Ring. The youngest of four, the least favorite of his father, hated by his brothers, Thorgrin senses he is different from the others. He dreams of becoming...
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Collection of funny animal tales. There is not a single child in the whole world who would not like fairy tales! Especially folk tales transmitted from generation to generation. The wise Russian people composed many fairy tales: funny and sad, magical and everyday, long and short, fairy tales for the youngest children and older children.
Most of these tales collected in the audiobook, which stand in the hands. Give your children the opportunity to...
11) Censor
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Russian
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The gaming industry has reached its peak and made gameplay indistinguishable from reality. In response, the government creates "Department C" - a special unit of Censors to police the virtual world. When a top Censor becomes unable to distinguish games from reality his partner must hunt him down and terminate his authority by any means necessary.
12) I Am Dragon
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Princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on the remote island. Now the only things she has are a stone cage and a mysterious young man named Arman ... but who is he and what is he doing on that island?
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Russian
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Collection of funny animal tales. There is not a single child in the whole world who would not like fairy tales! Especially folk tales transmitted from generation to generation. The wise Russian people composed many fairy tales: funny and sad, magical and everyday, long and short, fairy tales for the youngest children and older children.
Most of these tales collected in the audiobook, which stand in the hands. Give your children the opportunity to...
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Russian
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A collection of funny tales in which magic is sure to be present!
There is not a single child in the whole world who would not like fairy tales! Especially folk tales transmitted from generation to generation. The wise Russian people composed many fairy tales: funny and sad, magical and everyday, long and short, fairy tales for the youngest children and older children.
Most of these tales collected in the audiobook, which stand in the hands. Give...
16) A March of Kings
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A MARCH OF KINGS is Book #2 in the Bestselling series THE SORCERER'S RING, following A QUEST OF HEROES (BOOK #1).
A MARCH OF KINGS takes us one step further on Thor's epic journey into manhood, as he begins to realize more about who he is, what his powers are, and as he embarks to become a warrior.
After he escapes from the dungeon, Thor is horrified to learn of another assassination attempt on King MacGil. When MacGil dies, the kingdom is set into...
17) Attraction 2
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Russian
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Two years after her alien encounter, Julia is developing superhuman powers that have now made her the target of both humans and extraterrestrials.
18) Attraction
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After a spaceship crash-lands in the center of Moscow, a young woman finds herself torn between loyalty to her seemingly normal life and the allure of a new state of being promised by one of the aliens.
20) Coma
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A young architect joins a rogue group of fighters in the dystopian world COMA, where together they must uncover the secret of their shared nightmare.
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