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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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"V teatre kukol zhila malen'kaya myshka po imeni Businka. Ona s udovol'stviyem smotrela vse spektakli i znala vsekh kukol po imenam. Businka mechtala stat' nastoyashchey artistkoy! Myshka predstavlyala sebya v zolotom sverkayushchem plat'ye, krasnykh tufel'kakh i s koronoy na golove. I odnazhdy ona uslyshala, chto na glavnuyu rol' srochno nuzhna artistka?"--provided by publisher's website for title.
In the puppet theater there lived a little mouse...
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When Fox chases Mouse into the library, Mouse offers Fox a book so that he will get new ideas -- like wanting to eat chickens instead of mice. But when the chicken-eating, fox-hunting farmer walks into the library, Fox and Chicken think fast and come up with a surprising solution that just might save them both.
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One freight train driver helped two dying military personnel using completely unofficial technology. If he'd known the consequences... He would have done the exact same thing anyway.
While reading this edgy sci-fi novel about family values, you keep getting the feeling that he's not at all what he pretends to be. Well, you don't.
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“The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov is a timeless classic that continues to captivate audiences from around the world. An iconic play set in pre-revolutionary Russia, it tells the story of a family struggling with the impending loss of their beloved home and orchard. It is a bittersweet tale of love, loss, and longing, full of humor and poignancy. The play is often read as a dramatization of the decline of the aristocracy and other socio-economic...
14) Lake Front
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During the Civil War, against the combined forces of the Whites and the interventionists advancing from Murmansk, Onego and Ladoga lakes were fought by people who were often even without uniforms and sailed on old steamships that were hastily converted to military vessels. This book tells of the heroic daily routine of the conscious defenders of the revolution, of their exploits at the front, of the cherished attitude towards the Motherland and freedom....
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The book presents an unusual perception of the world to the reader, collected in amusing scenarios and images, through which the rich life and spiritual experience of the author are, manifested. The presence of a spiritual, invisible world in a person's life, in every deed, state and thought, are very delicately, shown. The book is, permeated with a great love for people and their destinies, so even the most tragic episode in the narrative becomes...
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Joseph Stalin, December 18, 1878 - March 5, 1953, was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until he died in 1953. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1953. Despite initially governing the Soviet Union as part of collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become the country's...
18) Faust
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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.
20) Fathers and Sons
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"Fathers and Sons" is not only a portrait of individual characters but also a reflection of the broader societal changes taking place in 19th-century Russia. Turgenev's narrative captures the tension between traditional aristocratic values and the rise of revolutionary ideas that would shape the course of Russian history. He offers a poignant critique of both generations, showcasing their strengths, weaknesses, and their struggle to adapt to the shifting...
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