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You I Love

Rated: 0 | 168 Views Released Year: 2004

Genre: Russia
About: For Timofei, a successful advertising executive living in Moscow, life has gotten pretty ho-hum. That's why he's pleasantly surprised to find chemistry with Vera, a television news anchorwoman who works in his building. But just as their relationship begins moving to the next level, Timofei's collision with Uloomji, a young day worker at the local zoo, sets his love life spinning in a whole new direction. How will Vera deal with the competition?
URL: You I Love

I Worked for Stalin

Rated: 0 | 146 Views Released Year: 1990

Genre: Russia
About: Gain an inside look into the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin's reign of terror through eyewitness testimonies, archival photographs and rare film footage, which reveal the real-life backstabbing and power plays among Stalin's inner circle. This documentary follows the stories of such high-ranking officials as Andrei Zhdanov, Nikita Khrushchev and Georgy Malenkov as they battled to secure their place in history by becoming Stalin's successor.
URL: I Worked for Stalin

Come and See

Rated: 0 | 148 Views Released Year: 1985

Genre: Russia
About: When Florya joins a group of Partisans fighting the Nazis in Byelorussia, USSR, he doesn't suspect that he is plunging through the looking glass. Separated from his comrades during a paratroop attack and struck deaf by artillery, Florya wanders a battle-scorched Russian purgatory of forests and man-made slaughter.
URL: Come and See

Steamroller and the Violin

Rated: 0 | 143 Views Released Year: 1960

Genre: Russia
About: Opposites can sometimes attract. In fact, that's the premise of this unique rumination by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky about the improbable friendship between Sasha, a sensitive young boy who plays the violin, and Sergei, the macho driver of a steamroller. Shying away from sentiment, the film provides a warm, ironic look at two individuals who bridge differences in generations to form a powerful, lasting bond.
URL: Steamroller and the Violin

Father and Son

Rated: 0 | 143 Views Released Year: 2003

Genre: Russia
About: A father and a son are inextricably linked after living together for years. But when the son enrolls in military school and meets a young woman with whom he begins to spend lots of time, he finds himself torn between his entrenched routines with his dad and his burgeoning new life with his love. Who will wrest control of the son? Does blood truly run thicker than water? Aleksei Nejmyshev, Andrei Shchetinin and Aleksandr Razbash star.
URL: Father and Son

Of Freaks and Men

Rated: 0 | 145 Views Released Year: 1998

Genre: Russia
About: This deliciously subversive, beautifully photographed film by award-winning Russian director Alexei Balabanov explores the hidden passions and sadomasochistic urges underlying the charm and propriety of Victorian society. The sinister Johann and his assistant, who photograph the floggings of bare-bottomed women, maneuver their way into two wealthy families, involving them in their pornographic schemes. Darkly humorous and startlingly original.
URL: Of Freaks and Men

I Was Stalin's Bodyguard

Rated: 0 | 127 Views Released Year: 1989

Genre: Russia
About: Created shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this startling documentary features the last living bodyguard for dictator Joseph Stalin. Filmmaker Semyon Aranovich combines the man's personal recollections, ranging from the chilling to the bizarre, with rare footage, including Stalin's home movies. The result is a unique portrait of the dictator, the oppression of the Soviet state and the Cold War from an insider's point of view.
URL: I Was Stalin's Bodyguard

Mother & Son

Rated: 0 | 165 Views Released Year: 2000

Genre: Russia
About: A deep, spiritual love develops between a dying woman (Gudrun Geyer) and the son (Aleksei Ananishnov) who's caring for her in this gem of a film from Russian director Alexander Sokurov. When the two share the same dream one evening, the son carries his mother outside to ease her pain and experience nature. Sokurov shoots through mirrors and panes of hand-painted glass to suggest the heightened, dreamlike reality experienced by mother and son.
URL: Mother & Son

Oblomov

Rated: 0 | 160 Views Released Year: 1979

Genre: Russia
About: In this film based on 19th century novelist Ivan Goncharov's tragicomedy, Oblomov (Oleg Tabakov) is a gentle, dignified aristocrat who would rather doze than compete in the modern world. A man definitely out of time, Oblomov does make room for a brief fling with a bewitching country girl named Olga (Elena Solovei). Oblomov is a nostalgic throwback to a Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution made such funny and winning iconoclasts obsolete.
URL: Oblomov

Through Fire, Water and ... Brass Pipes

Rated: 0 | 147 Views Released Year: 1968

Genre: Russia
About: One day, Vasya (Aleksei Katyshev) journeys into the forest to meet his beloved Alyonushka (Natalya Sedykh), only to have her forcibly whisked away by the wretched Kashchej (Georgi Millyar). To save her, Vasya must face a number of fabulous, archetypal tests. Aleksandr Rou directs this whimsical fairy-tale film based on the old Russian proverb that to pass through fire, water and brass pipes is to become a stronger and wiser person.
URL: Through Fire, Water and ... Brass Pipes

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