Vera Sotnikova

  • Nikos Koundouros – Byron, i balada enos daimonismenou AKA Byron: Ballad for a Daemon (1992)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaGreeceNikos Koundouros

    January 1824. Lord Byron arrives in Messolonghi, a seemingly unimportant, filthy and surrounded by an unhealthy lagoon small town on the western coast of Greece, in order to be proclaimed “General of the Greeks” in their revolution against the mighty Ottoman Empire. Away from his homeland, life-weary and possessed by his daemons, the great romantic comes to this besieged, depressive and defended by semi-barbarians town for his last heroic stand.Read More »

  • Andrei Yermash – Konets vechnosti AKA The End of Eternity (1987)

    1971-1980Andrei YermashSci-FiUSSR

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    Based on a novel by Isaac Asimov, the film deals with the idea that some people could get immortality by means of controlling the time periods inside the special lab-city called “Vechnost”. They look like people but they are trained to work for Vechnost forever, as a part of its mechanism. They correct time holes, help people from other times to solve their problems by means of a special mind operating system. Everyone from Vechnost is immortal and they live in a very futuristic looking place in the center of time . As some periods of time get blocked from them, two engineers are sent to solve the problem but the operation starts to go wrong.Read More »

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