Poushkin's and Pouschin's friendship began when they were students in the Tsarskoye Selo Lycee, whose alumni during the era of Alexander I and Nicholas I included government officials, royalists, rebels, romanticists, "Decembrists,"and poets. After the Decembrist revolt of 1825, Pouschin was exiled...
Filmed in Bangkok, Rites of Passage (Part 1) documents the story of Maya (Mohammad) Jafer, a 42-year old Indo-Muslim transsexual female, who underwent gender reassignment surgery in early 2011. This film follows her through the moments leading towards and during her surgery, capturing her in times...
About the hero of Socialist Labor, winner of the USSR State Prize, member of the Central Committee of the CPSU, combine harvester of the Lenin's Path collective farm The Peschanokopsky district of the Rostov region by N.V.Pereverzeva.
When the turmoil of contemporary Russia was settling in the 90th and everyone's existence was starting to resemble some kind of normality, we were wondering what life was like for the generations of Russians who grew up in the midst of oppression,... suffering through wars and revolutions and who...
An extraordinary foray into the many worlds of a renowned artist, opera and theatre director, activist, and professor. Art and Life: Finding the Thread offers a unique perspective on the human experience. Shot over the course of six years, Marina Goldovskaya's inquisitive lens moves effortlessly...
The Russian Story profiles Anatoly Rybakov, a best-selling Russian novelist. His personal life follows Russia in the XXth century, a country destroyed in Stalinist purges and in the battlefields of World War II.
Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new generation of camerawomen's visions.
Yelena Obraztsova is one of the brightest stars of international opera. She performed, and continues to perform on world stages in the star-studded shows of Herbert von Karajan and Franco Zeffirelli. In this film the great singer is captured during one of her rare visits to her apartment in Moscow...
Over twenty years, the Russian documentary filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya interviewed pioneers of American documentaries, such as Richard Leacock, Robert and Anne Drew, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker, Jonas Mekas, among others. In long conversations, they discuss the elaboration of titles that are...
The film is a personal journey that began in the Shaking world of Moscow during the uprising against Yeltsin and continued in Los Angeles during and after the devastating earthquake of 1994.
Depicting the collision between past, present, and future in contemporary Russia, the film showcases the filmmaker's understanding, or perhaps her emotions, about Russia's convoluted history.
The characters in this film all lived in the same building: the Knights' House, at 35 Arbat Street in Moscow. Built at the beginning of the century for a few privileged families, this sumptuous residence will become after the revolution a collective apartment building. Like millions of Russians,...
A descendant of the princes of the Meshchersky family, Evgeny, who moved from Ukraine to Russia in 1997 with his wife and three children, is trying to restore the ancestral estate in Alabino near Moscow.
Sequel to The Shattered Mirror, this film relates the human story behind the October 1993 armed confrontation in Moscow, when the future of the Russian nation and democracy hung in the balance. Rather than chronicle political events, Goldovskaya uses her personal style of filmmaking to take the...
The film is about Prince Meshchersky, a descendant of a famous Russian princely family, the sole heir to an estate in the village of Alabino near Moscow, which was razed to the ground in the 40s and turned into rubble for road construction. Of the former beauties of the once magnificent palace,...
