This film aims the poetic portray an abandoned town, called Pyramiden, surrounded by eternal ice Read More »
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The Corsican File AKA L’enquête corse (2004) Alain Berbérian, Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Caterina Murino
Jack Palmer is a Paris-based detective with a huge ego. Ange Leoni is a rebel native of Corsica Read More »
Mother AKA Mat (1990) Gleb Panfilov, Inna Churikova, Viktor Rakov, Liubomiras Laucevicius
Based on Maxim Gorky’s novel about a woman torn between her loyalties to husband and son in the years of the Revolution. Read More »
Prostitute AKA Prostitutka (1927) Oleg Frelikh, Olga Bonus, Mark Donskoy, L. Krasina
“Prostitutka” (1927) is a Bolshevist silent rarity, unusual because of its subject matter Read More »
Hush! AKA Tishe! (2003) Viktor Kosakovskiy
The director films the street where he lives in St. Petersburg, for a whole year Read More »
Aelita (1924) Yakov Protazanov, Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli
A mysterious radio message is beamed around the world, and among the engineers Read More »
A Night in September AKA Noch v sentyabre (1939) Boris Barnet, Emanuel Apkhaidze, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Daniil Sagal
The enemies are again trying to prevent the Stakhanovists from working in a new way. Read More »
Hostile Waters (1997) David Drury, Rutger Hauer, Martin Sheen, Max von Sydow
The True story of how an antiquated Soviet Project 667a “Yankee” Class Submarine Read More »
Other People’s Letters AKA Chuzhie pisma (1976) Ilya Averbakh, Irina Kupchenko, Svetlana Smirnova, Sergei Kovalenkov
Zina is sixteen. She is a manipulative schoolgirl living in a small Russian town among sincere and simple people. Read More »
Flame (1975) Richard Loncraine, Don Powell, Jim Lea, Noddy Holder
Light the Rock n’ Roll spark with a Flame in the guise of Dave, Noddy, Jim and Don Read More »
Twenty Days Without War AKA Dvadtsat dney bez voyny (1977) Aleksey German, Yuriy Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Aleksey Petrenko
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. Read More »
Whistle Stop AKA Polustanok (1963) Boris Barnet, Vasiliy Merkurev, Yekaterina Mazurova, Nadezhda Rumyantseva
An academician spends his vacation not at a resort, but in a remote village. Read More »
Ryaba, My Chicken AKA Kurochka Ryaba (1994) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Inna Churikova, Viktor Mikhaylov, Aleksandr Surin
Kurochka Ryaba is a sarcastic sour comedy sequel to Konchalovsky’s own 1966 movie ‘The Story of Asya Klyachina Read More »
The Thief AKA Vor (1997) Pavel Chukhray, Vladimir Mashkov, Yekaterina Rednikova, Mikhail Filipchuk
A woman meets a man who isn’t the right man for her – but she hasn’t realised it yet… Read More »
One chance out of a thousand AKA Odin shans iz tysyachi (1969) Leon Kocharyan, Bagrat Oganesyan, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Arkadiy Sviderskiy, Aleksandr Fadeyev
In 1942, a detachment of scouts led by Captain Migunko is thrown into the Crimea occupied by the Germans. Read More »