This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
I Am Cuba AKA Soy Cuba (1964) Mikhail Kalatozov, Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo
This study of Cuba–partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko–captures the island just before Read More »
Among Grey Stones AKA Sredi serykh kamney (1983) Kira Muratova, Igor Sharapov, Oksana Shlapak, Stanislav Govorukhin
This film is based on a short story of Vladimir Korolenko, Russian (born in Ukrainia) writer. Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The Stone Cross AKA Kaminnyy khrest (1968) Leonid Osyka, Boryslav Brondukov, Daniil Ilchenko, Yekaterina Mateyk
The Stone Cross (Kaminnyy khrest, 1968), based on two short stories (“The Stone Cross” and “The Thief,” both published in 1900) by Galician novelist Vasyl’ Stefanyk. 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 »