Soviet melodrama based on a story by Alexander Pushkin.
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Vladimir is a young officer who settles in a small town. He falls for Maria, the pretty daughter of a widow from whom he rents a room. Neither are able to commit to each other until he is called away for active duty during the cold winter.Read More »
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A company of French bourgeois travel through the territories occupied by Germans in a stagecoach accompanied by a woman of the oldest profession.Read More »
In this dark, slow-paced and enigmatic film, the title Schastlivye Dni (Happy Days) is definitely a bit on the ironic side. The story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.Read More »
The events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftists Chilean government of Salvador Allende are chronicled in this Soviet docudrama. Nochi Nad Chili doesn’t go deeply into the names or motives of the hidden forces which might have sponsored the coup (the CIA and IT&T had been named as perpetrators). Instead, this film confines its efforts to the main events themselves and is based on interviews with eyewitnesses, including many who resisted the takeover.Read More »
Ivan Vladimirovich Dykhovichny (Russian: Иван Владимирович Дыховичный, 16 October 1947 – 27 September 2009)[1][2] was a Russian film director and screenwriter.
He directed ten films between 1984 and 2009. His film Muzyka dlya dekabrya was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.
His father Vladimir Abramovich Dykhovichny (1911–1963) was a well-known Soviet song writer, mother Alexandra Iosifovna Sinani was a ballerina. Dykhovichny was a close friend of Vladimir Vysotsky who dedicated a long poem to himRead More »
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Farukh, (17) wants to go away. He takes a train with his little brother Azamat (7) to visit their father. Farukh intends to leave Azamat at his father’s before leaving. This is the story of their journey.Read More »
An exploration of the lives of 107 mothers in the Odesa prison in Ukraine, where mothers are allowed to serve their sentences with their children until their third birthday.
10 wins, 17 nominations.Read More »
This is a true story of a woman as old as a century. Every day for 17 years, at the same time, at the same station, an elderly lady with a hump and a cart boards the same train. She leaves the train at a far away station and starts her journey through the woods. Something unusually mysterious is depicted in her image. As we follow this old woman through the icy streets, her story and that of Russia’s unfolds. Striking archival materials from 20th century Russia are accompanied by simple, yet lyrical images of contemporary Russia and our heroine as she goes about her day. And as her poignant routine is revealed, a hundred years of Russian history unfolds through her personal retelling.Read More »
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An insurance agent who moonlights as a carthief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood.Read More »