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1) Aelita
Language
Russian
Description
The largest-scale and biggest-budget production of the 1920s. Exhausted by the post-revolutionary life, engineer Los builds a spaceship to travel to Mars. A tragic accident forces him to urgently make use of his invention. On Mars he falls in love with Queen Aelita, while the Red Army man who came with him raises a proletarian uprising. The revolution destroys the Martian civilization.
Language
Russian
Description
A father and son live together in a rooftop apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world. Sometimes they seem like brothers, at other times they appear to be like lovers. Following in his father's footsteps, the son, Alexei attends military school. He likes sports and has problems with his girlfriend. She is jealous of Alexei's relationship with his father. Alexei's father knows he should maybe accept a better job in another...
Series
Criterion collection volume 164
Language
Russian
Description
Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
Language
Russian
Description
The author of this unique art project, Nikita Mikhalkov, presents to the viewers the works of his favorite 19th-century painters. Discover a panorama of artistic trends and tastes of the period, learn about amazing life stories of the painters and their subjects, the K-12 of creation of the masterpieces of Russian painting, and get a broad picture of Russian culture, particularly the culture of painting. Thanks to a deeply personal, involved presentation...
Language
Russian
Description
A spectacular, breathtaking, high-tech musical production based on the masterpiece by Leo Tolstoy. The dramatic and tumultuous love story between the married ANNA KARENINA and a dashing military officer, Alexey Vronsky, takes place amidst the glitter and luxury of the Russian nobility in the second half of the 19th century. The musical’s characters struggle with overwhelming of love and betrayal, passion and duty, hope and desperation. Although...
8) Ward no. 6
Language
Russian
Description
A bold contemporary adaptation of Anton Chekhov's legendary short story, Ward no. 6 chronicles one man's descent into madness. Updating the 1892 tale to the present day, the film is shot in a real mental institution on the outskirts of Moscow, and features interviews with actual patients.
9) Son of Sofia
Language
Russian
Description
11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn’t know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha is violently catapulted into the adult world, transforming difficult situations into dark fairy tales. Winner of the Best International Narrative Feature Award at the **Tribeca Film Festival.**
Language
Russian
Description
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. The postman's beloved woman escapes the village life and moves to the city. The postman makes a decision to leave for the city too but returns before long with no certain reason. The script is based on real characters' stories. People from the village play their...
Language
Russian
Description
A young teacher fleeing an unfounded criminal charge goes on the run with an orphaned girl who is searching for her long-lost grandmother. Winner of the Nora Ephron Prize at the **Tribeca Film Festival.** Winner of the Film and Literature Award at the **Film by the Sea International Film Festival.**
13) Illusions
Language
Russian
Description
Nikolai Gostiukhin’s reimagining of Ivan Vyrypaev’s ILLUSIONS is presented as a teleplay, with Vyrypaev’s series of separate monologues transformed into a couples therapy session, allowing the protagonists to talk about the anxieties and worries they have accumulated during their marriage through the metaphorical account of the lives of two elderly married couples. This conceit adds a new dimension to Vyrypaev's masterful text, with the viewer...
Language
Russian
Description
Ingredients: 1 Jew, 12 Germans, 50 ml Culture of Remembrance, 30 ml stereotypes, 2 teaspoons of patriotism, 1 teaspoon of Israel, 1 falafel, 5 Stumbling Stones, a dash of antisemitism Directions: Put all ingredients into a film, bring to boil and shake vigorously. Then garnish with Klezmer music. Consumption: Light before serving. Enjoy at the cinema. 100% kosher.
15) Sunstroke
Language
Russian
Description
Academy Award® winner Nikita Mikhalkov delivers an epic saga, a magnificent love story and portrait of Russia recalled during the glory days before its fall.
16) The Banishment
Language
Russian
Description
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...
17) Lorik
Language
Russian
Description
A lonely self-absorbed and egocentric theatre actor inhabits a world populated by his past characters. Unexpectedly he finds himself plunged into the realities of people afflicted by social injustice. After experiencing himself as a critically-ill girl, he attempts to find the money for her treatment. But yet this proves not to be enough, and he must take the final, desperate step.
18) 1945
Language
Russian
Description
On a summer day in 1945, an Orthodox man and his grown son return to a village in Hungary while the villagers prepare for the wedding of the town clerk's son. The townspeople – suspicious, remorseful, fearful, and cunning – expect the worst and behave accordingly. The town clerk fears the men may be heirs of the village's deported Jews and expects them to demand their illegally acquired property back. Nominated for Best Fiction Film at the **Berlin...
20) Beanpole
Language
Russian
Description
In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha (astonishing newcomers Viktoria Miroshnichenko and Vasilisa Perelygina), intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjust to a haunted world. As the film begins, Iya, long and slender and towering over everyone—hence the film’s title—works as a nurse in a shell-shocked hospital, presiding over traumatized soldiers. A shocking accident brings them closer...
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