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In Mystery-Bouffe (1918), a religious mystery play which mocked religion, the poet described a struggle between two groups, the “Unclean” working class and the “Clean” upper class. The earth has been destroyed by a flood, the survivors seek refuge at the North Pole. The “Unclean” defeat the “Clean” and create a workers’ paradise on Earth, where people “will live in warmth / and light, having hade electricity / move in waves.”Read More »
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David Cherkasskiy – Misteriya-Buff AKA Mystery-Bouffe (1969)
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Eldar Ryazanov – Vokzal dlya dvoikh AKA Railway Station For Two (1983)
1981-1990DramaEldar RyazanovRomanceUSSRSummary:
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn’t even touch and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His passport is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera’s fiancé, and his money is stolen as he waits for the next train to Griboedov. Vera learns that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to prison in the Far East for a car accident he isn’t guilty for. During the few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other…
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Grigori Kozintsev & Iosif Shapiro – Korol Lir AKA King Lear (1971)
1961-1970ClassicsDramaGrigori KozintsevIosif ShapiroUSSRWilliam ShakespeareKing Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear’s loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.Read More »
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Richard Viktorov – Kometa AKA A Comet (1984)
1981-1990ComedyRichard ViktorovSci-FiUSSRIn a small coastal town,in the middle of the summer,the beaches are overcrowded,every piece of land occupied by tents and the cars of the tourists.A small group of filmmakers decide to shoot here a “masterpiece” by putting on a fake bank a ship.Suddenly,the crowd spreads the rumor that a comet will fall to the Earth very soon.At the last moment the most savvy vacationers decide to save themselves from a certain death by making some last minute unexpected changes in the script…Read More »
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Abram Room – Serebristaya pyl AKA Silver Dust (1953)
1951-1960Abram RoomDramaUSSRSummary:
Screen version of the play «Jackals» by A. Jackobson about an American scientist-inventor of a mighty weapon of mass destruction.Read More » -
Yuri Mamin & Arkadiy Tigay – Okno v Parizh aka Window to Paris (1993)
1991-2000AdventureArkadiy TigayComedyRussiaYuri MaminPlot
Nikolay (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Viktor Mikhalkov). The room’s previous inhabitant, an old woman, has died a year ago, and yet her cat is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That’s when the comedy begins – will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?Read More » -
Boris Barnet – Ledolom aka The Thaw (1931)
Drama1931-1940Boris BarnetSilentUSSR
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The son of a kulak has an affair with a poor girl and an eye within the village council so that his father’s interest could be preserved. But a man reveals how the kulak intend to impoverish more the peasants and workers and get freed from taxes.Read More » -
Kira Muratova – Peremena uchasti AKA Change of Fortune (1987)
1981-1990ArthouseDramaKira MuratovaUSSRQuote:
A lawyer is preparing to defend a rich, respected man’s wife, who killed a friend of the family who was attempting to sexually assault her. The scenario changes abruptly for all involved when the lawyer discovers a love letter from the woman to the murdered man.Read More » -
Vladimir Menshov – Moskva slezam ne verit AKA Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)
1971-1980DramaUSSRVladimir MenshovQuote:
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.Read More »







