USSR

Artavazd Peleshian wrote:
“It was during my work on the film We that I became convinced that my interests were elsewhere, that the very essence and main thrust of montage for me was found less in assembling scenes and more in the possibility of disjoining them, not in their juxtaposition but their separation. It became clear that what interested me above all wasn’t joining two elements of the montage, but rather separating them by inserting a third, fifth, even tenth element between them.Read More »

A Soviet allegory made during the somewhat more permissive atmosphere under Gorbachev, of the sometimes puzzling relationship between a master and a slave.Read More »

Autotranslated from Russian:
On the formation of the character of a young man, a participant in the struggle for bread in the virgin lands.

Color film. A group of Komsomol members founded the May-Balyk state farm on the virgin lands of Kazakhstan. Among the young men and women, future grain growers, the frivolous, dashing guy Zhenya Omega stands out. In the very first days of his stay on the virgin lands, Zhenya accomplished a number of “feats”: he exchanged rubber boots for a guitar, tried to evade work, and left the tractor driver courses. The management of the state farm and comrades understand that Omega cannot be entrusted with a tractor, and despite the boy’s indignation, he is appointed a water carrier.Read More »

wikipedia wrote:
The Second World War. The crew of an American aircraft falls into the German camp. Three members of the crew decide to sacrifice their lives to let the other prisoners to escape. The film’s protagonist – the fourth member of the crew (He) – wants to join them, but the commander and fellow soldiers denied him, as for the implementation of planned to only three, and four people suspected Nazi cause and make an escape plan unfeasible. Saying goodbye to departing for the death of friends, the protagonist says:Read More »

Man who talks with a ghost called Black Monk is forced to see a doctor. After the treatment, he loses his ability to communicate with the ghost, becoming angry, violent and utterly unhappy.Read More »

During the time of the Russian Revolution, this southern Russian actor has grown fascinated with the idea of a “people’s theater,” and with art which mirrors the principles of the Revolution. He even calls himself “Iskremas,” which means “revolutionary art to the masses.” As he and his small group tour in their area, they are constantly in danger from the White counterrevolutionary forces but show great courage and determination. allmovieRead More »

The story unfolding during one day, tells about meanness and eternally difficult female share – The action takes place against the background of the first hits of the young group “Nautilus Pompilios”.

The first professional work of the director Alexey Balabanov.
Course work, he shot during his studies at the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors.Read More »

U menya net druga is one of the Aleksey Balabanov’s student films. It’s about a couple of girlfriends, still in highschool, one of whom plays all modern and adventurous, and the other one cannot move on to the sexual part of relationship with her boyfriend. One day the boyfriend, as a means of producing an impression on her, takes her to an underground rock concert, where the famous Belkin band is supposed to play, but it so happens that she leaves not with the boyfriend, but with the band.Read More »

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-da galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.Read More »