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Tag Archives: russian
Sonny Boy (2011) Maria Peters, Ricky Koole, Sergio Hasselbaink, Angelo Arnhem
Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. Read More »
Hail Caesar (1994) Anthony Michael Hall, Bobbie Phillips, Leslie Danon
Caesar is a would-be rock star. But for now, he works at a pencil eraser factory. Read More »
War and Peace AKA Voyna i mir (1965) Sergey Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Eight-hour epic based on the book of the same name by Lev Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. Read More »
The Shoe AKA Kurpe (1998) Laila Pakalnina, Ivars Brakovskis, Igors Buraks, Viktors Cestnovs
The Shoe is set in a seaside Latvian town in the 1950s and deals with absurd laws of life in a border state. Read More »
Hoffmaniada (2018) Stanislav Sokolov, Anna Artamonova, Natalya Fisson, Vladimir Koshevoy
Based around three of Hoffmann’s tales; Klein Zaches, The Golden Pot and The Sandman Read More »
Shopping (1994) Paul W.S. Anderson, Sadie Frost, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee
Lone group of teens, led by recently released joyrider and his disenchanted Belfast girlfriend Read More »
The Wrestler and the Clown AKA Borets i kloun (1957) Boris Barnet, Konstantin Yudin, Stanislav Chekan, Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Yuriy Medvedev
It’s a story about two of the most famous russian personages. Read More »
Men of Novgorod AKA Novgorodtsy (1943) Boris Barnet, Evgeniy Grigorev, Olga Yakunina, Ekaterina Sipavina
The story of a French pilot, shot down by the Nazis and falling into a partisan detachment in the Novgorod region. Read More »
Goodbye, Boys AKA Do svidaniya, malchiki! (1966) Mikhail Kalik, Natalya Bogunova, Evgeniy Steblov, Anna Rodionova
Goodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. Read More »
Somebody to Love (1994) Alexandre Rockwell, Rosie Perez, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Quinn
Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She’s involved with the married Harry Read More »
Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano AKA Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino (1977) Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Elena Solovey, Evgeniya Glushenko
Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general’s widow, Anna Petrovna. Read More »
The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom AKA Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma (1924) Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Anna Dmokhovskaya
As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married Read More »
A Fish in the Bathtub (1998) Joan Micklin Silver, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Mark Ruffalo
Sam (Jerry Stiller) and Molly (Anne Meara) are a classic bickering old couple Read More »
The Overcoat AKA Shinel (1959) Aleksey Batalov, Rolan Bykov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Aleksandra Yozhkina
The story centers on the life and death of Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Read More »