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1) Russian ark
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Russian
Description
Having a fatherless childhood, young brothers Andrei and Ivan have grown closer than most siblings. But when they least expect it, the father the boys have never known returns. Under the cool midnight sun of a coastal Russian summer, the boys eagerly hop into a car for a fishing trip with a complete stranger they absolutely need to believe is their father. As they travel deep into the wilderness, their journey devolves from vacation to boot camp to...
3) Dersu Uzala
Language
Russian
Description
Tells of the friendship between Vladimir Arsenyev, a well-known Soviet explorer, and his guide, Dersu Uzala. It is the story of a man's unity with nature and of the struggle for survival in the wilderness.
4) Leviathan
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Russian
Description
Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma. The town's corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, and his land.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Russian
Description
Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma. The town's corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, and his land.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Russian
Description
Nikita Mikhalkov directs and stars as Colonel S. Kotov, a hero of the Revolution, who is spending the summer in the country with his young daughter (Mikhalkov's real-life daughter), his wife and her eccentric family. But when his wife's childhood love suddenly appears, the idyllic summer day takes a surprising turn. A lyrical film filled with beauty and warmth, it is also an indelible account of a man dedicated to family and fatherland, cruelly destroyed...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Russian
Description
A Russian army patrol is ambushed by Caucasian rebels and two survivors are taken prisoner, by a local patriarch who is hoping to barter them for the release of his captured son. A bond of understanding develops between the soldiers and their captors, but it is broken when plans for their release go awry and a chain of violence and retaliation is precipitated.
8) Solaris
Series
Criterion collection volume 164
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Russian
Description
Psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to the space station Solaris to investigate strange transmissions and the mysterious death of a crew member.
9) Loveless
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Russian
Description
A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
10) Ostrov =: Island
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
Russian
Description
"Somewhere in Northern Russia, in a small Russian Orthodox monastery, lives a very unusual man. His fellow monks are confused by his bizarre conduct. Those who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future. However, he considers himself unworthy because of a sin he committed in his youth. A parable about faith and salvation, The Island combines the realities of everyday Russian life with monastic...
11) The fool
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Russian
Description
One man fights against a corrupt political system.
12) The fool
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Russian
Description
While inspecting a leak at a derelict housing community, a plumber decides to enter politics in order to help save the lives of the residents.
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Russian
Description
Dramatization of actual events in Czarist Russia (1905). Shows the fierce mutiny aboard the battleship "Prince Potemkin" and the bloody aftermath in Odessa, where the Czar's troops ruthlessly massacred hundreds of innocent civilians who had sympathized with the mutineers. The film is notable for its use of non-actors in roles.
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