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1) The Mirror
Language
Russian
Description
Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, imges of Tarkovsky's childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life--a child's wartime exile, a mother's experience with political terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home--all intermingled with slow-motion dream sequences and poetic chunks of stark newsreels.
2) Evil boy
Language
Russian
Description
Several years after their son's disappearance, a grieving couple adopts a feral boy, who eerily begins to resemble their Vania more with each passing day. While the wife believes they have found their son, her husband is certain that Vania died. As strange accidents begin happening around the boy, the pair soon has cause to wonder whether they may have adopted something not entirely human.
3) Banishment
Language
Russian
Description
The film investigates the bonds of family, this time tackling the relationship between a husband and wife. A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city. Eschewing easy answers and tackling a wide array of themes, it poetically renders the persistent human state of exile from our surroundings.
Language
Russian
Description
Matvey has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend's parents' apartment and kill her father Andrey with a hammer to restore her honor. But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey's attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don't quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable - not to mention ruthless - opponent than he anticipated, and Matvey, for his part, proves stubbornly unwilling to die.
Language
Russian
Description
Young brothers Andrei and Ivan have grown close in a household their father abandoned. But when they least expect it, the man the boys have never known returns. Eager and bewildered, Andrei and Ivan join this mysterious stranger for a week long fishing trip. As they travel deeper into the Russian wilderness, their journey devolves from vacation to boot camp, turning into a violent test of wills.
Series
Criterion collection volume 397
Language
Russian
Description
An evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boy's war-torn youth, moving back and forth between the traumatic realities of World War II and serene moments of family life before the conflict began.
Language
Russian
Description
"Burnt by the Sun 2: a Russian drama film directed by and starring Nikita Mikhalkov. It is the sequel to Mikhalkov's 1994 film Burnt by the Sun. In the end of the previous movie, Burnt by the Sun, the main protagonist general Kotov was executed by NKVD. But, according to the new movie, he was sent to a labor camp instead. As Nazi Germany invades Soviet Union, Kotov, along with his few surviving camp-fellows, is drafted to a penal military unit, to...