Tag Archives: russian

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 »

Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she’ll use Millie, an aging French star. Read More »

Following the break-up of his marriage after revealing his homosexuality Read More »

Montmartre, 1896: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Read More »

The hero is an ordinary farmer, Philip Safronov, whose peaceful life is aggressively interrupted Read More »

A newspaper sends a young reporter into the Russian countryside to make a nice, sensationalist yarn out of some strange stories going around. Read More »

During the siege of Charleston of 1864, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley becomes the first submersible to sink an enemy warship in wartime. Read More »