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Great Citizen AKA Velikiy grazhdanin (1938) Fridrikh Ermler, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ivan Bersenev, Oleg Zhakov
In the guise of a character named Chakov, Ermler reconstructs in his epic the achievement Read More »
The Very Same Munchhausen AKA Tot samyy Myunkhgauzen (1979) Mark Zakharov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Inna Churikova, Elena Koreneva
A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. Read More »
The Story of the Voyages AKA Skazka stranstviy (1983) Aleksandr Mitta, Andrey Mironov, Tatyana Aksyuta, Lev Durov
In a medieval fantasy kingdom, two orphans, May and his sister Martha, live in poverty. Read More »
Wild Field AKA Dikoe pole (2008) Mikheil Kalatozishvili, Oleg Dolin, Roman Madyanov, Yuriy Stepanov
A young doctor relocates to a remote region of central Asia, thinking his fiancee soon will join him … Read More »
Winter’s Tale AKA Conte d’hiver (1992) Éric Rohmer, Charlotte Véry, Frédéric van den Driessche, Michel Voletti
Felicie and Charles have a serious if whirlwind holiday romance. Read More »
Valley of Flowers (2006) Pan Nalin, Milind Soman, Mylène Jampanoï, Naseeruddin Shah
Along the highest mountain passes of the Himalayas, tough, intrepid Jalan (Milind Soman) Read More »
Those Who Return Shall Love to the End AKA Kto vernyotsa, dolyubit (1968) Leonid Osyka, Yelena Dimitriu, Yuriy Dubrovin, Liliya Gurova
Boris Godounov (1989) Andrzej Zulawski, Ruggero Raimondi, Kenneth Riegel, Pavel Slabý
The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding Read More »
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed AKA Il faut tuer Birgitt Haas (1981) Laurent Heynemann, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Lisa Kreuzer
“Hangar” is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. Read More »
Gentlemen of Fortune AKA Dzhentlmeny udachi (1971) Aleksandr Seryy, Evgeniy Leonov, Georgiy Vitsin, Saveliy Kramarov
It so happens that peaceful kindergarten teacher is incredibly similar Read More »
New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur’s Court AKA Novye priklyucheniya yanki pri dvore korolya Artura (1989) Viktor Gres, Sergey Koltakov, Albert Filozov, Elena Finogeeva
The plane of the American pilot has got lost in time. Read More »
A Fish in the Bathtub (1998) Joan Micklin Silver, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Mark Ruffalo
Sam (Jerry Stiller) and Molly (Anne Meara) are a classic bickering old couple Read More »
Stars of Eger AKA Egri csillagok (1968) Zoltán Várkonyi, Imre Sinkovits, György Bárdy, István Kovács
Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, several European countries Read More »
Red Meadows AKA Krasnye polyany (1966) Emil Loteanu, Victor Sotchi-Voinicescu, Viktor Chutak, Grigore Grigoriu
To save their flocks from the heat and the sun, the shepherds of a Soviet cooperative Read More »