The Mongolian shepherd Gombo lives in a yurt in Inner Mongolia with his wife, three children, and mother. Read More »
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Cold Summer of 1953 (1988) Aleksandr Proshkin, Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. Read More »
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985) Aleksey German, Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin’s Great Purge. Read More »
Reeseville (2003) Christian Otjen, Majandra Delfino, Brad Hunt, Angela Featherstone
Reeseville is a character driven murder mystery, set in the rural midwest. Read More »
Jolly Fellows (1934) Grigori Aleksandrov, Leonid Utyosov, Lyubov Orlova, Mariya Strelkova
Yelena (Mariya Strelkova), a well-off would-be singer who can’t carry a tune Read More »
Days of Eclipse (1988) Aleksandr Sokurov, Aleksei Ananishnov, Eskender Umarov, Irina Sokolova
Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. Read More »
The Enchanted Desna (1964) Yuliya Solntseva, Boris Andreyev, Evgeniy Bondarenko, Vladimir Goncharov
During the Second World War a writer is crossing the Desna river together with Soviet soldiers. Read More »
The Steamroller and the Violin (1961) Andrei Tarkovsky, Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Marina Adzhubei
Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Read More »
The Cranes Are Flying (1957) Mikhail Kalatozov, Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev
As the clouds of war spread over Russia during Germany’s surprise invasion in 1941, the fervent young lovers Read More »
Stay as You Are (1978) Alberto Lattuada, Marcello Mastroianni, Nastassja Kinski, Francisco Rabal
A May-December romance. Roué Giulio Marengo, a Roman landscape architect unhappy in his marriage, meets Francesca Read More »