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1) Russian ark
Language
Russian
Description
A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.
2) Stalingrad
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
An epic look at the battle that turned the tide of World War II. A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there. The scale of the battle contrasts dramatically with the human drama of the Russian soldiers, the few remaining civilians and their invaders into Stalingrad.
3) Beanpole
Language
Russian
Description
1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
4) The horde
Language
Russian
Description
In the 14th century, half of Eurasia is occupied by the Golden Horde. Europe waits in trepidation for its attack, anticipating the death of the Christian civilization. When the Great Khan is killed by his brother, Janibeg, their mother, Taidula, must pass judgment-persecute the conspirator or bless his reign.
5) Come and see
Series
Language
Russian
Description
As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty, rendered with feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov₂s subjective camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, is...
6) Paradise
Series
Language
Russian
Description
Not recommended for ages under 17 without parental permission.
Paradise tells the compelling story of three individuals, Olga, Jules and Helmut, whose paths cross amidst the devastation of war. Olga, a Russian aristocratic immigrant and member of the French Resistance, is arrested by Nazi police for hiding Jewish children during a surprise raid. As her punishment, she is sent to jail where she meets Jules, a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned...
Language
Russian
Description
Set in the Ukraine of the 16th century, a powerful Cossack chieftain is determined to regain his land from treacherous Polish invaders. Despite bitter dissension in the ranks, he is soon leading his soldiers into savage warfare. But further conflict erupts when his headstrong son, Andrei, falls deeply in love with a Polish girl. Spectacular battle scenes highlight the nonstop action, arriving at a shattering climax in which father and son must ultimately...
9) Two women
Language
Russian
Description
The beautiful Natalya is married to Arkadi, a rich but older landowner. Bored with her life, she catches the eye of the handsome Mikhail. Might this flirtation develop into something more? Not once the young, attractive Aleksei arrives as tutor to Natalya's son. Natalya falls for Aleksei, but so does her teenage step-daughter Vera. Suddenly Natalia's seemingly idyllic life has turned into a complex web of unrequited love, guilt, lust and jealousy....
Series
Language
Russian
Description
Alexander Nevsky: Biographical story of Prince Alexander Nevsky and his successful resistance against an attempt by the Teutonic Knights to invade Russia in 1242.
Ivan the Terrible: Biographical story of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia. Part I starts with the coronation of Ivan the Terrible and concludes with his return to power after the death of his wife. Part II covers the attempt to assassinate him in 1564. The third part of the saga was never made due...
11) War and peace
Series
Criterion collection volume 983
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
A titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic tome in which the fates of three souls: the blundering, good-hearted Pierre; the heroically tragic Prince Andrei; and the radiant, tempestuous Natasha, collide amid the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars. Employing a cast of thousands and an array of innovative camera techniques, the director conjures a sweeping vision of grand balls that glitter with rococo beauty and breathtaking battles that...
13) My perestroika
Language
Russian
Description
Follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times, from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. Together, these childhood classmates paint a complex picture of the dreams and disillusionments of those raised behind the Iron Curtain.
Language
Russian
Description
WWI 1942: Rzhev, USSR. After one of the many brutal battles between the Red Army and the Nazis near the village of Ovsyannikovo, only half of the Red Army₂s company survives. Freezing cold, with little to no reinforcements, the company receives the impossible order from Soviet headquarters to keep the village at all costs. While pinned in this crucial strategical position, the members of the company cope with their fear while also finding the strength...
16) Sunstroke
Language
Russian
Description
In 1920, during the final days of Imperial Russia, the Communist revolution is underway. The last soldiers loyal to the Tsar are held in a prison camp awaiting Moscow's decision regarding their fate. The Lieutenant recalls his encounter, years before, with a beautiful and enigmatic woman. During the course of a steamboat journey, their paths crossed briefly. The Woman was married, and the Lieutenant engaged, but despite every obstacle, the attraction...
17) Chernobyl 1986
Language
Russian
Description
After the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the USSR and all of Europe is faced with an even greater threat a steam explosion that would eject radioactive material over the entire continent. Firefighter Alexey volunteers for what seems like a suicide mission: manually drain the plant's reservoir before the melting reactor collapses. With time running out, this team of ordinary citizens turned heroes must use all their strength and bravery...
18) Andreĭ Rublev
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Language
Russian
Description
Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, Andrei Tarkovsky's second feature conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. The film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes, gradually emerging as a man struggling to preserve his creative and religious integrity.
Language
Russian
Description
Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands. A military surgeon, General Yuri Georgievich Klensky, finds himself a target of the 'Doctors' Plot', the anti-Semitic conspiracy accusing Jewish doctors in Moscow of planning to assassinate the Soviet elite. Pursued, abused, and marked for the gulags, Yuri is chased and dragged through a Stalinist Soviet nightmare.
20) 1612
Language
Russian
Description
Tsar Boris Godunov and his family are brutally slaughtered. Russia decends into a country of chaos. Andrey is the only witness to the massacre. Guided by faith and mysticism he transforms himself from a servant to a cavalier and sets off on a quest to save Princess Ksenia, who is the missing daughter of Godunov. Andrey joins forces with the people's army leader, Prince Pozharski, and faces down the Polish army in an explosive battle for Moscow.