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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.
2) Absurdistan
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Russian
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Welcome to Absurdistan, a small village in the high desert mountains, just on the outskirts of reality, where magical visions and bizarre events fuse together. The village is facing a water shortage, but the men are too lazy to fix a rickety pipeline and the women are getting fed up with their good-for-nothing husbands. Led by young Aya, the women make a simple vow: “No water, no sex.” The men's only hope is Temelko, whose long-promised wedding...
3) Robo
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Russian
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Mitya is an imaginative twelve-year-old boy, who loves to draw comics of superheroes and dreams of becoming an artist. His parents have built and programmed a Universal Rescue Robot, aka ROBO, to rescue people from dangerous situations. Due to ROBO's alleged malfunction, the director of the research facility deems the fled robot as a menace to society. In his search for a family, ROBO meets Mitya, and the two form a true friendship while on the run....
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Russian
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No meteorites hit Earth, no terrorists put the world in danger, no atomic war was started, but something went wrong. Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from the Space. There are dead corpses everywhere: in stores, in cars, on roads, in hospitals and railway stations. Who or what is destroying all life on Earth? How long will the...
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A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
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Russian
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A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
7) Sputnik
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Russian
Description
A doctor whose controversial practice has threatened her license is recruited by the military to treat a cosmonaut. Returning from space after a mysterious accident, the man has brought with him a nocturnal passenger which thrives on destruction; Tatyana wants to stop it from killing while the military wants to keep it as a secret weapon.
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Russian
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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...
12) Stalingrad
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Russian
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An epic look at the battle that turned the tide of World War II. A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there. The scale of the battle contrasts dramatically with the human drama of the Russian soldiers, the few remaining civilians and their invaders into Stalingrad.
13) Khovanshchina
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Russian
Description
An epic of immense power and humanity, set at the time when Peter the Great became czar of Russia. Political intrigue, religious persecution, and the tragedy of a nation form the backdrop against which intense personal dramas are played out.
14) Cosmoball
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Russian
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Life on earth is desolate after a brutal intergalactic war, brightened only by the dangerous, high-flying sport Cosmoball, but no one knows that at each match, four gifted humans are fighting furiously to ensure the survival of humankind.
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.
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Russian
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This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity, and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.
Series
Criterion collection volume 878
Language
Russian
Description
Law of the border: Set along the Turkish-Syrian frontier, this film is a terse, elemental tale of smugglers contending with a changing social landscape. One of them is a quiet man who finds himself fighting for his young son's life as he becomes pitted against his fellow outlaws.
Taipei story: A washed-up baseball player and his property girlfriend struggle with their relationship as they work towards marriage and emigration.
18) Tesnota
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Russian
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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...
19) War and peace
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Russian
Description
Follows the aristocratic Bolkonsky and Rostov families as Napoleon's armies sweep through Europe, culminating in the 1812 French invasion of Russia.
20) Beanpole
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Russian
Description
1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
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