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21) 1945
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Russian
Description
On a summer day in 1945, an Orthodox man and his grown son return to a village in Hungary while the villagers prepare for the wedding of the town clerk's son. The townspeople – suspicious, remorseful, fearful, and cunning – expect the worst and behave accordingly. The town clerk fears the men may be heirs of the village's deported Jews and expects them to demand their illegally acquired property back. Nominated for Best Fiction Film at the **Berlin...
22) Beanpole
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
Description
In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha (astonishing newcomers Viktoria Miroshnichenko and Vasilisa Perelygina), intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjust to a haunted world. As the film begins, Iya, long and slender and towering over everyone—hence the film’s title—works as a nurse in a shell-shocked hospital, presiding over traumatized soldiers. A shocking accident brings them closer...
23) Golden Voices
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
Description
Raya and Victor built a shared career as the Soviet Union’s most beloved film dubbers. As the USSR collapses, the couple must immigrate to Israel and start anew by putting their vocal talents to unexpected use in the underground economy. A charming comedy about disrupting old dynamics, starting anew, and rediscovering yourself in the most unexpected places. GOLDEN VOICES is also a stirring tribute to the redemptive power of cinema.
24) Liompa
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
Description
LIOMPA, based on the 1928 short story by Russian Soviet novelist Yuri Olesha, explores the relationship between an individual and the things that he owns or desires to own throughout his life. The film looks at this relationship from the perspective of three people at different stages: a dying man, a teenage boy and a four-year-old. The gorgeously crafted short film, a crowd favorite at the Toronto International Film Festival, was directed, and adapted...
25) Arsenal
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1929.
Language
Russian
Description
In 1918, demobilized soldier Timosh returns to Kiev during a celebration of Ukrainian freedom. He soon challenges the authorities by urging the workers of the Arsenal to fight for the Revolution.
26) T-34
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers, led by young lieutenant Ivushkin, manage to escape from German captivity in a half destroyed legendary T-34 tank.
27) Dear Comrades!
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
Description
When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the **Venice Film Festival**.
28) Silent Souls
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Russian
Description
One of the most acclaimed films of 2011, SILENT SOULS is a breathtakingly beautiful road-movie masterpiece. After the sudden death of his wife, tough guy Miron asks taciturn writer Aist to accompany him on a long journey to dispose of her remains according to the rituals of the Merya people—an ancient tribe from picturesque West-Central Russia. As the two friends traverse the evocatively bleak landscape with her body and a pair of caged birds, Miron...
29) Paradise
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Russian
Description
Olga is a beautiful Russian countess and member of the French Resistance; Jules is a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned to investigate her case; and Helmut is a handsome, high-ranking, yet naïve German SS officer who once fell madly in love with Olga and meets her again when she is shipped to a concentration camp. While they recount their stories, PARADISE drifts between the bloody end of World War II and the gilded, halcyon days when their...
30) Faust
Publisher
Leisure Time Features
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Russian
Description
Based on Goethe’s classic about a man who sells his soul to the devil so he can make his wish come true.
31) Zerograd
Publisher
Deaf Crocodile Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Russian
Description
Part Kafka, part Agatha Christie and part Monty Python, director Karen Shakhnazarov’s surreal 1988 satire of Communism follows an Everyman engineer named Varakin (Leonid Filatov) who arrives in a remote city where nothing quite makes sense, but everyone acts as if it does. The more complex and absurdist the mystery becomes, the more poignant and plaintive Varakin’s predicament – “I have to get back to Moscow,” he pleads to no avail. Along...
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Russian
Description
The year is 1989. In an era of Palestinian demands for independence, the State of Israel sends young soldiers to oversee the Arab population in the Occupied Territories. After one of them is killed, the common fate of four young soldiers and one Palestinian family is sealed. The film describes the extraordinary journey of a young soldier trying to find his place in the chaos surrounding him. Winner of the C.I.C.A.E. Award at the Berlin International...
33) Sobibor
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Russian
Description
A war drama based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII and focuses on Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW in SOBIBOR, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Many of the escapees were later caught and died - the rest led by Pechersky managed to join the partisans. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
34) Polina
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
Rigorously trained from an early age by a perfectionist instructor, Polina is a promising classical ballet dancer. She is just about to join the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet when she discovers contemporary dance, a revelation that throws everything into question on a profound level.
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Russian
Description
From Production I.G, the studio behind Ghost in the Shell and Miss Hokusai, and director Mizuho Nishikubo comes the award-winning historical drama, GIOVANNI'S ISLAND.Junpei and Kanta live in Shikotan, a rural fishing village that has been isolated from turmoil during World War II. The brothers are named after Giovanni and Campanella from their father’s favorite book, Night on the Galactic Railroad, which becomes a source of solace in the aftermath...
Publisher
Deaf Crocodile Films
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
Russian
Description
Based on a famous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN is one of director Aleksandr Ptushko’s most sublime creations: a ravishingly beautiful fantasy about love, magic, betrayal and abandoned family. Like his earlier masterpieces Sampo and Ilya Muromets (also released by Deaf Crocodile), TSAR SALTAN is filled with breathtaking imagery: carved wooden lions who shed tears; peasants in pagan ritual masks, dancing in the...
37) Sputnik
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
Description
Russia, 1983 - Cold War tensions at their peak. A terrifying scene is discovered at the landing site of spacecraft Orbit-4. The commander is dead, the flight engineer in coma. The third crew member, Valery Basov, has survived, but he has lost his memory. In a secluded government facility, psychologist Tatiana Klimova must cure the astronaut's amnesia and unravel the mystery. In the process, she learns that Orbit-4 may have carried back an alien parasite...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
A haunting, powerful film about the absurdity and evil of war. Set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, The Red and The White details the murderous entanglements between Russia's Red soldiers and the counter-revolutionary Whites in the hills along the Volga. The epic conflict moves with skillful speed from a deserted monastery to a riverbank hospital to a final, unforgettable hillside massacre. THE RED AND THE WHITE is a moving visual feast...
39) A slave of love
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Russian
Description
Hailed by the New York Times as "An unexpected masterpiece," A slave of love is a witty and haunting film about moviemaking from the acclaimed Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov (Burnt by the sun). Within the sun-drenched beauty of the Crimean summer, a Russian movie crew grapples with film shortages, Tsarist secret police scrutiny, and their own dysfunctional dynamic to churn out one more silent melodrama before the revolution in Moscow consumes the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Russian
Description
Dahab: atlas of dive sites explores the most interesting sites of Dahab (Egypt) and its environment. A special emphasis is made on the underwater world of the Red Sea. A full underwater guide to Dahab, descriptions and dive schemes for all the most interesting sites of Dahab are explored in detail. In additon to Dahab and the underwater world of the Red Sea, we take a trip to the Bedouins in the desert and to St. Catherine's Monastery.
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