The 1968 film shows Fedor Karamazov as a stingy old man, who’s three sons are after his money. Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Sour Grape AKA Hndzan (1974) Bagrat Oganesyan, A. Isahakyan, Sos Sargsyan, H. Azizyan
Far behind the lines Vahe receives the news of his father’s death. Read More »
Farewell AKA Proshchanie (1983) Elem Klimov, Stefaniya Stanyuta, Lev Durov, Aleksey Petrenko
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. Read More »
A Long Goodbye AKA Dolgie provody (1971) Kira Muratova, Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirsky, Tatyana Mychko
A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. Read More »
How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor AKA Skaz pro to, kak tsar Pyotr arapa zhenil (1976) Aleksandr Mitta, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Aleksey Petrenko, Ivan Ryzhov
Loosely based on Peter the Great’s Negro, Alexander Pushkin’s unfinished novel based on his own great-grandfather, a black African brought to Russia. Read More »
A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines AKA Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov (1987) Alla Surikova, Andrey Mironov, Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Mikhail Boyarskiy
Mr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph. Read More »
Walking the Streets of Moscow AKA Ya shagayu po Moskve (1964) Georgiy Daneliya, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei Loktev, Galina Polskikh
Young Siberian writer Volodya meets Kolya in the Moscow metro in his visit to a famous author. Read More »
Voyage of the Young Composer AKA Akhalgazrda kompozitoris mogzauroba (1985) Giorgi Shengelaia, Gia Peradze, Levan Abashidze, Zura Kipshidze
In 1905, young composer Nikusha, travels to the villages of a post-revolutionary Georgia to collect folk songs. Read More »
The Stone Cross AKA Kaminnyy khrest (1968) Leonid Osyka, Boryslav Brondukov, Daniil Ilchenko, Yekaterina Mateyk
The Stone Cross (Kaminnyy khrest, 1968), based on two short stories (“The Stone Cross” and “The Thief,” both published in 1900) by Galician novelist Vasyl’ Stefanyk. Read More »
Outskirts AKA Okraina (1933) Boris Barnet, Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. Read More »
The Youth of Maxim AKA Yunost Maksima (1935) Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it… “an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism Read More »
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches AKA Dvadtsatyy vek nachinaetsya (1986) Igor Maslennikov, Boris Klyuev, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Aleksandr Romantsov
The 20th century begins. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson left the house No. 221b on Baker Street. Read More »
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra AKA Sokrovishcha Agry (1983) Igor Maslennikov, Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
Holmes and Dr. Watson help a young lady who is receiving anonymous letters 10 years after her father passed away under shady circumstances. Read More »
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles AKA Sobaka Baskerviley (1981) Igor Maslennikov, Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in his country house, Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for help Read More »
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: Hunting a Tiger AKA Okhota na tigra (1980) Igor Maslennikov, Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
Dr. Watson reads the dying message of Mr. Holmes, in which he disposes of his property Read More »