In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers.
Day of the Full Moon, a series of vignettes from Russia past and present, summons the spirit of Ophuls’ La Ronde, Altman’s Nashville and Short Cuts, and the time-shifting strategies of Resnais (Mon Oncle d’Amérique) to tell provocative, connected stories illustrating the waltz of years and...
Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushkin. Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the Terrible had died. At first, things...
The ancient northern monastery has a guide Tatyana. Two former classmates seek her favors: medical student Ivan and young businessman Yves (that is, also Ivan). As a result of a fall from a balloon, the girl is in a coma. Only Ivan Voronov can deduce from this state if he is near. He decides to...
Young Nastya brings home a tutor. But her mother is not happy with her daughter’s desire to study. A suspicious woman sees a hidden motive in the relationship between the girl and the teacher: Nastya was raised without a father and has now fallen in love with her mother’s peer: an educated,...
The film is based on the story of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A sad story about how the demagogue and idler Foma Opiskin lived in the house of Colonel Rostanev, took possession of the souls and minds of educated, intelligent people.
In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a fake Saint Nick because the little boy is blessed with the ability to locate gold. A kindly, wise philosopher-type by the name of Orlando joins Marta in her...
One day, Valera wanted to do a good deed, to save the endangered animals. But what should we do if the one we want to help is five times bigger than you and ideally you would hold in your stomach?
In one of the quiet cozy alleys of old Moscow lives a talented puppet master. He has a faithful friend Christopher, a son Kuzya and a lot of dolls. Unexpectedly, a sweet and gentle girl, Viktosha, appears in the house, whom both father and son, and even the dolls, have fallen in love with.
In an ordinary industrial Soviet town, notable only for presence of a radio-telescope, people start behaving strangely, in a robotic manner, while assuming geometry-inspired aliases and organizing into a new hierarchy. The phenomenon spreads via a device of alien origin, called “the mediator”,...
Young Katya Batistova works as a sailor at a rescue station. Here she meets the 26-year-old philosopher from Moscow Evgeniy, who is relaxing in the House of Creativity with his grandmother, a former famous actress.
Sofya Petrovna, a typist from a publishing house in Leningrad, has her only son repressed. In her publishing house, managers and ordinary employees were repressed. And Sofya Petrovna begins walking around the offices, trying to explain that a mistake has occurred.
Aleksandra Yanovskaya works in "Hamilton Reed" company in New-York, but one day finds herself in whirl of activity, including games of Russian and American intelligence agencies, chases and spying around the project of hydrogen engine.
