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After her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena moves from Crimea to Grozny, not yet aware of the changes that lie ahead. When war breaks out in Chechnya, it deeply affects her city and family. Years later, filmmaker Sandu reflects on her childhood in this poetic, autobiographical hybrid film, exploring how cycles of violence shape children—and how healing and change are possible.Read More »
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Ruslyk, the president’s personal film director, tries to save the world while battling mental illness. During his one-day odyssey through the city of Minsk he encounters doctors, politicians, propagandists, artists, drunks and low…Read More »
When a Red Army detachment captures Sultan Mazar, the brains behind the Bazmachi contingent, a decision is made to escort urgently the prisoner to the Bukhara province. The difficult mission is entrusted to a grizzled mountain trapper and conscientious revolutionary called Mirzo. His expertise is essential to traverse the precarious paths and steep mountain ridges along the way, impossible terrain for the inexperienced. Read More »
Don Quixote (Russian: Дон Кихот, translit. Don Kikhot) is a 1957 Soviet drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev. It is based on Evgeny Shvartz’s stage adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’s classic novel of the same name. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. It opened in the United States in 1961, beginning its U.S. run on January 20.
The film was exhibited in the mid-1960s by Australian University film clubs receiving the productions of Sovexportfilm. It was the first film version of Don Quixote to be filmed in both widescreen and color.Read More »
The game’s story village, which is in secret documents was listed as Degelen № 27. Speech on the Semipalatinsk test site, more precisely, about the people who live near the test site. But they have no idea what kind of tests are conducted on this test site.
The action takes place in the early 60’s. Residents of the remote, God-forgotten village know nothing about nuclear explosions, neither of radiation. That is why children love watching the beautiful large mushrooms that grow from the ground and rush to the heavens. They do not understand why people are dying so fast in the village, why die by their parents and relatives.Read More »
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, upon the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexander Kornev. Kornev does his utmost to meet the prisoner, a victim of corrupt agents of the secret police, the NKVD. A dedicated Bolshevik of integrity, the young prosecutor suspects foul play. His quest for justice will take him all the way to the office of the Attorney General in Moscow. In the age of the great Stalinist purges, this is the plunge of a man into the corridors of a totalitarian regime that does not bear said name.Read More »
1948. Nina Levitskaya, a former opera singer and mother of four children, knows nothing about the fate of her husband, who disappeared from sight almost a year ago. According to rumors, the father of the family, a responsible employee, Aleskandr should be somewhere in Moscow. Clouds are gathering around the family, and in order to avoid a possible arrest, Nina urgently sells all her property, collects her children and leaves Sverdlovsk for the capital.Read More »
Once upon a time there was the tree – very tall, proud and strong. It was doing neither good nor harm. This tree was kept aloof from everyone and everything. Once the tree encounters the cat. His presence changes everything.Read More »
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There was an entire sub-genre of melancholic nocturnal dramas made mostly by Toei and Nikkatsu from mid 60s through early 70s. These films typically followed hustlers, hostesses, hookers and other young people chasing their dreams in the neon lit night of vice, with story premises often taken from popular songs. Here is a superior late entry into the loosely defined genre: a stylish Tokyo red light district drama set to singer Kan Mikami’s rock ballads. Newcomer Emiko Yamauchi shines as an impulsive youth lost in the city of opportunities and seduction. She dumps her boyfriend and becomes a bar hostess after being tricked by sleazy/handsome photographer Ichiro Araki.Read More »