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Tag Archives: russian
Versatile Lovers / Les belles au bois dormantes (1970) Pierre Chenal, Marisa Mell, Robert Hossein, Ettore Manni
Upperdog (2009) Sara Johnsen, Hermann Sabado, Agnieszka Grochowska, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen
As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. Read More »
Ice kiss / Iskyss (2008) Knut Erik Jensen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Regimantas Adomaitis, Per Egil Aske
This is a love story. A young Norwegian girl falls in love with a Russian POW during WWII. Read More »
There Will Be No Leave Today / Segodnya uvolneniya ne budet (1958) Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky, Oleg Borisov, Aleksey Alekseev, Pyotr Lyubeshkin
Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells Read More »
Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky, Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Read More »
Ballad of a Soldier / Ballada o soldate (1959) Grigoriy Chukhray, Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova
During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a medal as a reward Read More »
The Great Turning Point / Velikiy perelom (1945) Fridrikh Ermler, Mikhail Derzhavin, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Yuriy Tolubeev
World War II. German high command accumulates enormous forces for the assault. Read More »
Donbass (2018) Sergey Loznitsa, Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk
In eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda Read More »
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad / Sadko (1953) Aleksandr Ptushko, Sergey Stolyarov, Alla Larionova, Ninel Myshkova
An oddly Russian Sinbad seeks to bring happiness to his people Read More »