Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses Read More »
Tag Archives: Russia
Russian Lolita / Russkaya Lolita (2007) Armen Oganezov, Valerja Nemchenko, Vladimir Sorokin, Marina Zasimova
The action of a controversial novel ”Lolita”, of the famous Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, reset to present day Russia. Read More »
Triple agent (2004) Eric Rohmer, Katerina Didaskalou, Serge Renko, Cyrielle Clair
France, 1936-37. The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. Read More »
The Outskirts (1998) Pyotr Lutsik, Yuriy Dubrovin, Nikolay Olyalin, Aleksei Pushkin
The hero is an ordinary farmer, Philip Safronov, whose peaceful life is aggressively interrupted Read More »
A Belated Premiere (2004) Victor Botcharov, Jennifer Gaspar, Christopher Hamilton, Ivan Krasko
A prominent Russian ballet dancer and teacher Alexander Shiryaev had another talent hidden for almost a century. Read More »
Honey Baby (2004) Mika Kaurismäki, Henry Thomas, Irina Björklund, Helmut Berger
An American, with a past as a successful musician, makes a living by playing at weddings and the likes in Germany. Read More »
The Sun / Solntse (2005) Aleksandr Sokurov, Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi
As Japan nears defeat at the end of World War II, Emperor Hirohito starts his day in a bunker Read More »
Brother 2 / Brat 2 (2000) Aleksey Balabanov, Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergey Makovetskiy
Arriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death Read More »
Playing the Victim (2006) Kirill Serebrennikov, Yuriy Chursin, Vitaliy Khaev, Marat Basharov
A young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He’s done nothing wrong he just wants a job. Read More »
The Star (2002) Nikolay Lebedev
During World War II the Red Army sends a special unit named “Zvezda” (“The Star”) on a mission Read More »