Tag Archives: russian

The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin’s private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator’s death. Read More »

Peter the Great, on becoming czar of Russia, using his knowledge of shipbuilding gained in a foreign country Read More »

An abolitionist John Wickliff Shawnessy drifts away from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither Read More »

During World War II, a squad of Soviet POWs steals a tank from Nazi test site and rushes into a desperate shoot over Germany. Read More »

Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses Read More »

The action of a controversial novel ”Lolita”, of the famous Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, reset to present day Russia. Read More »

The film adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s biography of 1925 is the first Ukrainian biopic. Read More »

Toronto, 2001. Three women in spiritual crisis. In secret from her dismissive husband, Olivia draws what she sees in dreams. Read More »

In this road comedy from France, the goal is a convent where a woman at death’s door and the travelers Read More »

Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor Read More »