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Princess Anastasia has been missing ever since Rasputin started the Russian Revolution. Now she's living on the streets, and Vladimir is trying to convince her to claim a reward.
When Price Ivan is kidnapped, it is up to Bartok to discover the real hero inside himself and rescue the young Romanoff even if it means confronting the evil witch Baba Yaga.
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Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.
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The film was Fridrikh Ermler's last silent feature and last of four productively contentious collaborations with the method actor Fiodor Nikitin. To prepare for his part as Filimonov, a soldier suffering from total amnesia due to shell shock from the Great War, Nikitin apparently disguised himself as a doctor's assistant in the Forel Psychiatric Clinic to study actual amnesia patients. Meanwhile, Ermler creates a profoundly realistic and moving portrait...
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Hungarian
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This film about the absurdity and arbitrariness of war is set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918. It details the battles between the Red soldiers of Russia, aided by Hungarian Communists, and the counter-revolutionary Whites in the hills along the Volga River.
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Silent film detailing the events leading up to the Russian Revolution. The filem was commissioned to Sergei Eisenstein to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Eisenstein chose to capture the spirit of the era by focusing on one place at one point in time: Petrograd between February and October 1917, and using a political perspective. The original version was heavily censored by Stalin, but in 1967 a full restoration was made,...
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Czarist Russia, 1897 - war and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But, both Yury and Lara are haunted - he by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, the powerful man who means to have her any way he can.
9) Summer storm
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In a Russian village just before the revolution, the sultry wife of a local bureaucrat incites jealousy and murder when she flirts with members of the ruling class.
10) Doctor Zhivago
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One of the world's most famous love stories and half a century of Russian history come to life in this adaptation of Pasternak's masterpiece. War and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But both are hunted, Yury by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, the powerful man who means to have her any way he can.
12) Doctor Zhivago
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A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
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Russian royal Paul (Ronald Colman) has run off to France to escape political turmoil in his native country after World War I. There, he decides to collect money from his fellow expatriates and try his luck at a Monte Carlo casino, hoping to win big in order to benefit his fellow Russians. Surprisingly, Paul does just that; in fact, he's so successful that the casino's proprietors hire the lovely Helen (Joan Bennett) to lure the prince back into the...
15) Sunstroke
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Russian
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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) Anastasia
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Princess Anastasia has been missing ever since the start of the Russian revolution. When the revolution destroys most of her family, young Anastasia escapes, only to find that she must battle the evil Rasputin to one day reclaim her heritage. Living on the streets, Vladimir tries to convince her to claim a reward and see her grandmother.
19) The last command
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An exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra lands a role playing a version of his former czarist self, bringing about his emotional downfall.
20) Propaganda
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This program focuses on dictators and spin doctors who shaped the perceptions of the masses in 20th century Europe. Archival news film and footage and historical photos spotlight the propaganda of the Russian Revolution, Nazi propaganda in World War II, the Gulf War, as well as the PR blitzes of Britain's political scene. Clips from propaganda classics Battleship Potemkin, The Triumph of the Will, and the Eternal Jew are also included--Container.