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The 3 Rooms of Melancholia / Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004) Pirjo Honkasalo, Pirkko Saisio
A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict Read More »
Playing the Victim (2006) Kirill Serebrennikov, Yuriy Chursin, Vitaliy Khaev, Marat Basharov
A young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He’s done nothing wrong he just wants a job. Read More »
The Star (2002) Nikolay Lebedev
During World War II the Red Army sends a special unit named “Zvezda” (“The Star”) on a mission Read More »
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989) Kira Muratova
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Read More »
Tears Were Falling (1983) Georgiy Daneliya
One evening after a hard day at the office, Pavel Ivanovich Vasin starts to behave quite strangely to family and friends. Read More »
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965) Aleksandr Gintsburg
A talented inventor who created the machine of unprecedented destructive power is obsessed with world domination. Read More »
Sonny Boy (2011) Maria Peters, Ricky Koole
Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. Read More »
The Salamander (1981) Peter Zinner, Franco Nero
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Read More »
Lyana (1955) Boris Barnet, Kyunna Ignatova
Young musicians live and perform in a Moldovan collective. The state awards to 3 boys are secretly Read More »