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Yekaterina Artemovna (Natalia Negoda), forty-five, has a hard life. She lives in a small mining town where she works as a librarian and, like her only friend and colleague, rents a little room in a project. She has difficulties making ends meet on her meagre salary, which is often paid late, and sells off some of the library’s books illegally in a nearby station. One day, a man with a strong sense of civic duty, wearing a naval uniform, returns one of these books to the library, apparently without recognising it was Yekaterina who had actually sold him the book. She falls in love with this newcomer and, when he moves in with her, the monotony of her daily life seems over. When her father hands on an apartment to her, it seems the fates are smiling at her, and a permanent smile now seems to hover on her lips. But this happiness is suddenly brought to an end when her lover discovers her illicit trade in books and leaves her for her friend. Yekaterina can bear it no longer and decides to take vengeance… In late 1990s Russia, suffering from the difficult transition from planned to market economy, each individual struggles as best he can to improve his own life. Yekaterina’s father, although seriously ill, continues to work at the mine until it kills him; the police yield to corruption, and Yekaterina’s lover proves to be less wholesome than he appears. Through his protagonist’s fate, director Alexei Mizgirev gives a remarkable depiction of the limits of human endurance in the face of despair. The settings of Buben.Baraban underscore this emotional and material distress in which the film’s characters seem locked: winter is harsh, the landscape is grey, and life is, literally, bloody. Buben. Baraban is a dramatic portrayal of a Russia in search of a more clement future. — Locarno Film Festival

1.56GB | 1h 33m | 720×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F963584FADCF96C/Aleksei_Mizgiryov_-_(2009)_Tambourine,_Drum.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/F988078A63C8770/Aleksei_Mizgiryov_-_(2009)_Tambourine,_Drum.vs2.srt

Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English

The post Aleksey Mizgiryov – Buben, baraban AKA Tambourine, Drum (2009) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In 1988 the first Soviet erotic film appeared as a symbol of perestroika. The scenes rather moderate for the genre were shocking for the domestic audiences. On the day of premiere the crowd around Moscow Film House was held back by the police.

The film enjoyed international commercial success. Natalia Negoda toured half of the world with the film, she co-starred the Oscar Awards ceremony, and was the first Russian actress to appear in Playboy. The slogan “From Russia with love” became known ever since.

Vera lives in a seaside town. Being kind and sensitive, down-to-earth and passionate, she can’t find her way, she doesn’t know what to do with her freedom, her youth and her beauty. She no more understands her drinking father and her mother who is just tired of life. The aimless being is suffocating for her; she needs love and happiness, which, East or West, not everyone can get…

Little.Vera.1988.REPACK.DVDRip.DD5.1.x264-BmP.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 8 min
Size: 	2.73 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	712x454 ~> 756x454
Aspect ratio:  	5:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 599 kb/s
BPP: 	0.322
Audio
#1:  	Russian 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/612B9E8652536D1/Little.Vera.1988.REPACK.DVDRip.DD5.1.x264-BmP.mkv

Language:Russian, French
Subtitles:English, Russian

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