Supported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys Read More »
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The Brothers Karamazov AKA Bratya Karamazovy (1969) Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyrev, Mikhail Ulyanov, Lionella Pyryeva
The 1968 film shows Fedor Karamazov as a stingy old man, who’s three sons are after his money. Read More »
Spring Parade (1940) Henry Koster, Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Mischa Auer
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman(Deanna Durbin) attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. Read More »
Farewell AKA Proshchanie (1983) Elem Klimov, Stefaniya Stanyuta, Lev Durov, Aleksey Petrenko
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. Read More »
Because You’re Mine (1952) Alexander Hall, Mario Lanza, Doretta Morrow, James Whitmore
An opera star who is drafted in the army thinks he has it made when he learns his sergeant is an opera buff Read More »
A Long Goodbye / Dolgie provody (1971) Kira Muratova, Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirsky, Tatyana Mychko
A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. Read More »
The Tie That Binds (1995) Wesley Strick, Daryl Hannah, Keith Carradine, Moira Kelly
John Netherwood and his wife Leann are fugitives who are both wanted for murder. They have a young daughter named Janie. Read More »
How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor AKA Skaz pro to, kak tsar Pyotr arapa zhenil (1976) Aleksandr Mitta, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Aleksey Petrenko, Ivan Ryzhov
Loosely based on Peter the Great’s Negro, Alexander Pushkin’s unfinished novel based on his own great-grandfather, a black African brought to Russia. Read More »
Outskirts AKA Okraina (1933) Boris Barnet, Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. Read More »
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches AKA Dvadtsatyy vek nachinaetsya (1986) Igor Maslennikov, Boris Klyuev, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Aleksandr Romantsov
The 20th century begins. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson left the house No. 221b on Baker Street. Read More »