1782. A Japanese ship named Shinsho-maru is blown off course and severely battered during a wild storm Read More »
Tag Archives: Russia
Eastern Drift (2010) Sharunas Bartas, Klavdiya Korshunova, Erwan Ribard
When drug smuggler Genia is betrayed by his partner, he has no choice but to get help from a Russian mobster. 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 »
Garpastum (2005) Aleksey German Jr., Evgeniy Pronin, Danila Kozlovsky, Dmitriy Vladimirov
Garpastum is a Latin word meaning ball game. Set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the brothers Andrey and Nikolai are passionate Read More »
The Dry Valley (2011) Aleksandra Strelyanaya, Yana Esipovich, Oleg Garkusha, Elena Kalinina
This story unites the destinies of the landowners and their servants Read More »
East – West (1999) Régis Wargnier, Oleg Menshikov, Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Deneuve
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. Read More »
Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998) Aleksey German, Yuriy Tsurilo, Nina Ruslanova, Mikhail Dementyev
Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin’s Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign 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 »
Tsar / Tzar (2009) Pavel Lungin, Pyotr Mamonov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Ramilya Iskander, Drama, History
In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Read More »
Telets / Taurus (2001) Aleksandr Sokurov, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mariya Kuznetsova, Sergey Razhuk, Drama
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’. Read More »