Lavretsky returns to his estate after stay in Paris. Frustrated with life,in his wife’s unfair, he falls in love with Lisa. Read More »
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Voskreseniye AKA Resurrection (1960) Mikhail Shvejtser, Tamara Syomina, Evgeniy Matveev, Pavel Massalsky
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Read More »
Conspiracy of the Doomed (1950) Mikhail Kalatozov, Lyudmila Skopina, Pavel Kadochnikov, Vladimir Druzhnikov
During the late 1940s early 1950s when not many movies were shot in the country Read More »
Chasing Two Hares (1961) Viktor Ivanov, Oleg Borisov, Margarita Krinitsyna, Nikolay Yakovchenko
Madcap comedy set in early 20th century Kiev about a barber whose fondness for drink, gambling, and women lead to bankruptcy. Read More »
Contest (1964) Bulat Mansurov, Rovshan Aliyev, M. Annayev, Ilmurad Bekmiyev
About the legendary musical competition between the famous Turkmen dutar player Shukur Bakhshy Read More »
Autumn Tale (1998) Éric Rohmer, Marie Rivière, Béatrice Romand, Alain Libolt
Magali, 45, is a wine producer in the south of France. She’s a widow, and her best friend, Isabelle, decides to find her a new husband. Read More »
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov, Nikolay Nikiforovitch Siniaev, Gennady Soloviev
In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. Read More »
Well, Come On, Smile (1985) Leida Laius, Arvo Iho, Monika Järv, Hendrik Toompere Jr., Tauri Tallermaa
Teenage Mari is sent to an orphanage. It’s an awful and unfriendly place to be. Read More »
Man Follows the Sun (1962) Mikhail Kalik, Nika Krimnus, Tatyana Bestayeva, Nikolay Volkov
A story about a boy walking across the town following sun. Read More »
The Very Same Munchhausen (1979) Mark Zakharov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Inna Churikova, Elena Koreneva
A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. Read More »
There Were Seven Simeons (1989) Vladimir Eisner, Herz Frank
One family, one band. They seemed to be happy. A movie that investigates why these seemingly optimistic musicians Read More »
Die Nichten Der Frau Oberst (1980) Erwin C. Dietrich, Karine Gambier, Brigitte Lahaie, Pascale Vital
Frau Oberst has 2 young nieces who are very open with their sexuality. Read More »
Twelve Chairs (1971) Leonid Gayday, Archil Gomiashvili, Sergey Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. Read More »
Cosmonaut Polyakov (2007) Dana Ranga, Valeri Polyakov
An orphan child that dreams about the Cosmos, a doctor who donates blood for an experiment on interplanetary flights Read More »
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 »