A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin Read More »
Tag Archives: Aleksey Petrenko
Twenty Days Without War AKA Dvadtsat dney bez voyny (1977) Aleksey German, Yuriy Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Aleksey Petrenko
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. Read More »
Farewell AKA Proshchanie (1983) Elem Klimov, Stefaniya Stanyuta, Lev Durov, Aleksey Petrenko
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. Read More »
How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor AKA Skaz pro to, kak tsar Pyotr arapa zhenil (1976) Aleksandr Mitta, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Aleksey Petrenko, Ivan Ryzhov
Loosely based on Peter the Great’s Negro, Alexander Pushkin’s unfinished novel based on his own great-grandfather, a black African brought to Russia. Read More »
Rasputin AKA Agoniya (1981) Elem Klimov, Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line
Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the indecisive Nicholas Read More »