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A group of students go hiking into the mountains of Siberia, close to the border with Mongolia. One day on a very difficult climb, the group leader Olle gets lost in a lethal landslide. His team presume he’s dead so they forge on to the nearest village for help. The locals mistrust them and they end up in jail, and then things go from bad to worse when Olle’s body mysteriously shows up. Has the local legend come true?
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Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time follows the story of Pechorin, a young man who is seemingly apathetic to the world around him. Through his interactions with other characters, Pechorin displays a range of contradictory personality traits, including arrogance, naïveté, and cynicism. His development over the course of the novel is complex and multi-layered, and his ultimate fate is left ambiguous.
3) Tesnota
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TESNOTA (CLOSENESS, 2017) is the incendiary debut feature from the young and brilliant Kantemir Balagov (Beanpole). 1998, Nalchik, the North Caucasus, Russia. 24-year-old Ilana works in her father’s garage to help him make ends meet. One evening, her extended family and friends gather to celebrate the engagement of her younger brother David. Later that night, the young couple is kidnapped, and a ransom demand delivered. In this close-knit Jewish...
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In December 1941, a German tank column is moving towards Moscow. During a mission to stop the enemy advance, Soviet pilot Nikolai Komlev's Il-2 is shot down in enemy territory. To survive, Komlev must face hunger, extreme cold, evading wild wolves, and avoiding Nazi soldiers. When he finally makes it back to safety, he faces the strongest challenge of them all.
6) Night watch
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Living among humans are those who possess various supernatural powers. They are divided into the forces of light and the forces of the dark. Centuries ago both sides signed a treaty to end a war. Now the battle is about to happen again.
7) The duelist
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Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society. But when Yakovlev meets the naive young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto...
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Montana wildfire fighter Rowan has a strict rule: never get romantically involved with anyone she works with. But the moment she meets new recruit Gull Curry that rule is severely tested. And when it becomes clear that someone blames Rowan for her jump partner's death, and is determined to get revenge, Rowan finds that she needs Gull's help and support more than ever.
9) The student
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As Venya is finally exempted by the school's devout principal, he grows confident that his strict and rigorous study of the Bible gives him the ability to manipulate all forms of authority. Challenged by a teacher who refuses to consent to his dogma, he sets out to eliminate her and subdue an entire community.
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Legend has it that any mirror may become a portal into the world of the dead. It is said the Queen of Spades gets her energy from reflective objects and anyone who sees her will go insane or die. When four teenagers summon the Queen as a joke, one of them dies suddenly and the group realizes they have conjured up an inexplicable and deadly evil.
12) 12
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Set in contemporary Moscow where 12 men must decide the fate of a young man accused of murdering his step-father. Consigned to a makeshift jury room, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.
13) Bezmolvnai͡a
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Ten years after the disappearance of his bride, Eva, Damian Werner is sure he will never see her again. But someone posted a picture of a girl very similar to Eva on an Internet portal for searchng for missing people. Is it only a cooincidence? But another picture appears almost instantly, this one a photo Damian himself took days before her disappearance. Who besides Damian is looking for Eva? He thought he knew Eva since they were kids, but what...
14) Angely i demony
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World renowned harvard symbologist Robert Langdon must uncover clues that point to the resurgance of an ancient secret society.
15) Break
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Five young adults, who want to celebrate New Year's Eve on top of a mountain, get stuck in a gondola lift. What started out as an adventurous party, soon becomes a fight for survival.
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"The journalist Dima, who is pretending to be the librarian Nadia Mitrofanova to hide her identity from her lover, entered a secret society. Nothing illegal: there they help ordinary people who are in trouble. But good deeds do not remain unpunished. Murder occurs, and Nadia is in mortal danger. The girl hurries for help to Dima. Together they decide to find and expose the villain, but do not suspect that now their honor and lives are at stake ......
18) 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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A mysterious eighteen-year-old and two meteorologists are visited by a seductive beauty and her rich husband. When two detectives are sent up to investigate their disappearance, the secrets of their past merge with those of the weather station and they get sucked into a vortex of mistrust, betrayal and murder.
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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.
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