Yelena (Mariya Strelkova), a well-off would-be singer who can’t carry a tune Read More »
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Prague Nights (1969) Jirí Brdecka, Milos Makovec, Milena Dvorská, Milos Kopecký, Jirí Hrzán
Rumor has it that the house of Prague hide secret obtain the philosopher’s stone Read More »
Days of Eclipse (1988) Aleksandr Sokurov, Aleksei Ananishnov, Eskender Umarov, Irina Sokolova
Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. Read More »
Zoya (1944) Lev Arnshtam, Galina Vodyanitskaya, Yekaterina Skvortsova, Kseniya Tarasova
Zoya is the inspirational true story of one of Russia’s most beloved national heroines. Read More »
My Universities (1940) Mark Donskoy, Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin
The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy’s Maxim Gorky trilogy. Read More »
The Enchanted Desna (1964) Yuliya Solntseva, Boris Andreyev, Evgeniy Bondarenko, Vladimir Goncharov
During the Second World War a writer is crossing the Desna river together with Soviet soldiers. Read More »
The Steamroller and the Violin (1961) Andrei Tarkovsky, Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Marina Adzhubei
Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Read More »
Andrei Rublev (1966) Andrei Tarkovsky, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history Read More »
Blind Date (2007) Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Thijs Römer
A married couple has suffered a tragedy, and now the only way they can now relate to one another is by meeting as different characters through a series of personal ads. Read More »
Dark Is the Night (1945) Boris Barnet, Irina Radchenko, Boris Andreyev, Ivan Kuznetsov
A girl, working in a German commandant’s office, saves two wounded Russian pilots sacrificing her own life. Read More »
The Cranes Are Flying (1957) Mikhail Kalatozov, Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev
As the clouds of war spread over Russia during Germany’s surprise invasion in 1941, the fervent young lovers Read More »
Stay as You Are (1978) Alberto Lattuada, Marcello Mastroianni, Nastassja Kinski, Francisco Rabal
A May-December romance. Roué Giulio Marengo, a Roman landscape architect unhappy in his marriage, meets Francesca Read More »
Come and See (1985) Elem Klimov, Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius
The action takes place on the territory of Belarus in 1943. In the center of the story is a Belarusian boy, who witnesses the horrors of the Nazi punitive action Read More »
A Girl in Australia (1971) Luigi Zampa, Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone
Early 1970s. Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Read More »
The Red House (1947) Delmer Daves, Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson
Pete and Ellen have reared Meg as their own, ever since she was a baby and her parents took off. Read More »