Tag Archives: russian

Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible.

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.

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

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This visually stunning Kazakh movie tells a tragic tale of absent and misplaced compassion.

Far behind the lines Vahe receives the news of his father’s death. Small boy neither could accept it nor reconcile himself with the new family of his mother who married to another man.

Clifford Groves, toy manufacturer, is in full charge at the factory but feels left out and taken for granted by his wife and children at home.

This acclaimed, multiple-award-winning film centers around a group of young people who meet in a rock pub in Budapest in the summer of 1989 during Hungary’s fleeting celebration of Communism’s fall.

An orphan child that dreams about the Cosmos, a doctor who donates blood for an experiment on interplanetary flights

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’.

An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions.