France, 1936-37. The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. Read More »
Tag Archives: Russia
Whispering Pages (1994) Aleksandr Sokurov, Aleksandr Cherednik, Sergey Barkovskiy, Elizaveta Koroleva
The existential protagonist is a hungry, homeless, socially isolated, and socially alienated young man living on the streets of an anonymous Russian big city in the 19th Century. Read More »
House Of Fools (2002) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Yuliya Vysotskaya, Sultan Islamov, Bryan Adams, Drama, Music, Romance, War
A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. Read More »
Tsar / Tzar (2009) Pavel Lungin, Pyotr Mamonov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Ramilya Iskander, Drama, History
TSAR, French poster art, Pyotr Mamonov as Ivan the Terrible, 2009. ph: Alexandra Morozova/©Rezo
In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Read More »
Telets / Taurus (2001) Aleksandr Sokurov, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mariya Kuznetsova, Sergey Razhuk, Drama
The second in Alexander Sokurov’s teratology of films concerning twentieth century dictators, Taurus is a poetic and partially factual film of the last days of Russian revolutionary, Vladimir Ulyanov ‘Lenin’. Read More »
Molokh / Moloch (1999) Aleksandr Sokurov, Elena Rufanova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Irina Sokolova, Drama
In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone, when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics. Read More »
Molchi, grust… molchi / Be Silent, Sorrow, Be Silent (1918) Pyotr Chardynin, Konstantin Khokhlov, Vera Kholodnaya, Drama
Pola performs in a circus double act of music and clowning with her husband Lorio. Read More »
Mirazhi / The Mirages (1916) Pyotr Chardynin, Arsenii Bibikov, Tamara Gedevanova, Andrej Gromov, Short, Drama
Marianna advertises for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Read More »
Deti Veka / Children Of The Age (1915) Yevgeni Bauer, Arsenii Bibikov, V. Glinskaya, Ivan Gorskij, Drama
The picture tells the story of Maria (Vera Kholodnaya), a devoted wife of a bank employee. Read More »
Obce cialo / Foreign Body (2014) Krzysztof Zanussi, Riccardo Leonelli, Agnieszka Grochowska, Agata Buzek, Drama, Romance
Angelo and Kasia met in Italy in the Focolare Movement where their love and faith in God brought them together. Their relationship’s in broken by the girl’s return to Poland and her decision on entering the convent. Angelo arrives in Warsaw in order to persuade Kasia to change her mind. He takes up a job in an international corporation while waiting for her decision…
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