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Юрий Арабов. Механика судьбы
1

Юрий Арабов. Механика судьбы

Oct 05, 2007

Юрий Арабов. Механика судьбы
2007 39 min 1 vues
"The fate of a person can not only be explained, but also predicted, using the same laws according to which a screenplay is built," says Yuri Arabov, a well–known Russian screenwriter, winner of the Cannes Film Festival. One day, an inexplicable, at first glance, event occurred in the fate of Arabov himself. He received a call from a man who claimed that he was his father, who had left him with his mother 40 years ago, and whom Arabov himself had long considered dead…
Documentary
Гирокастра
1

Гирокастра

Dec 05, 2024

Гирокастра
2024 144 min 1 vues
Albania in the 1960s, the city of Gjirokastra. Katya, a graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University, marries an Albanian, a young historian whom she met in Moscow. Soon after Katya enters into a dialogue with the dictator Enver Hoxha at an art exhibition, her husband is arrested on trumped-up charges.
Drama
Гирокастра
1

Гирокастра

Dec 05, 2024

Гирокастра
2024 144 min 1 vues
Albania in the 1960s, the city of Gjirokastra. Katya, a graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University, marries an Albanian, a young historian whom she met in Moscow. Soon after Katya enters into a dialogue with the dictator Enver Hoxha at an art exhibition, her husband is arrested on trumped-up charges.
Drama
Le Jour de l'éclipse
5.87

Le Jour de l'éclipse

Dec 01, 1988

Le Jour de l'éclipse
1988 139 min 27 vues
Albania in the 1960s, the city of Gjirokastra. Katya, a graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University, marries an Albanian, a young historian whom she met in Moscow. Soon after Katya enters into a dialogue with the dictator Enver Hoxha at an art exhibition, her husband is arrested on trumped-up charges.
Drama
Taurus
5.8

Taurus

Feb 24, 2001

Taurus
2001 104 min 25 vues
Albania in the 1960s, the city of Gjirokastra. Katya, a graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University, marries an Albanian, a young historian whom she met in Moscow. Soon after Katya enters into a dialogue with the dictator Enver Hoxha at an art exhibition, her husband is arrested on trumped-up charges.
Drama
Moloch
6.3

Moloch

Feb 01, 1999

Moloch
1999 108 min 56 vues
A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
Drama
Le Soleil
6.7

Le Soleil

Feb 17, 2005

Le Soleil
2005 111 min 61 vues
A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
Drama
Орда
6

Орда

Jan 13, 2012

Орда
2012 129 min 29 vues
It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price of the one-man mission as he is departing to this world to accomplish a feat. The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani-Beg's mother, from blindness, in 1357.
History
La Pierre
5.4

La Pierre

Sep 13, 1992

La Pierre
1992 83 min 19 vues
It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price of the one-man mission as he is departing to this world to accomplish a feat. The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani-Beg's mother, from blindness, in 1357.
Drama
Зеркала
5.3

Зеркала

Apr 24, 2014

Зеркала
2014 130 min 7 vues
The film is based on the life of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of the most tragic and greatest poets of the 20th century. The authors follow her in Russia, then in immigration in Prague and Paris, and then her return to Russia where she committed a suicide a few month after her arrival.
Drama
Николай Вавилов
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Николай Вавилов

Jan 07, 1991

Николай Вавилов
1991 463 min 1 vues
Biopic devoted to the history of the life of Soviet biologist, academician Nikolai Vavilov. His scientific and personal confrontation with Trofim Lysenko, the subsequent arrest and death of the scientist in prison.
Drama
Сфинкс
3

Сфинкс

Nov 01, 1990

Сфинкс
1990 86 min 2 vues
Having learned that the empty monastery is facing a thorough reconstruction, the architect decides to capture it alone and prepare design documentation for the restoration of this monument of history and culture. But the monastery turns out to be far from empty. Besides him, a strange old woman also lives in the house.
Drama
Орлеан
5.028

Орлеан

Sep 17, 2015

Орлеан
2015 106 min 18 vues
Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday type: Lida the hairdresser has indiscriminate affairs, followed by numerous abortions; Rudik the doctor enjoys an endless supply of women, thanks to his position, neglecting his paralyzed father who lives with him and hoping the old man will die soon; the local officer of the law has no qualms about committing murder; a magician from the local circus might actually be sawing women in half on stage... One day, a mysterious man appears in this quiet backwater town. He goes by the title of the Executor: at least that's what it says on his business card...
Drama
Mister Designer
5.9

Mister Designer

Dec 01, 1988

Mister Designer
1988 103 min 21 vues
Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday type: Lida the hairdresser has indiscriminate affairs, followed by numerous abortions; Rudik the doctor enjoys an endless supply of women, thanks to his position, neglecting his paralyzed father who lives with him and hoping the old man will die soon; the local officer of the law has no qualms about committing murder; a magician from the local circus might actually be sawing women in half on stage... One day, a mysterious man appears in this quiet backwater town. He goes by the title of the Executor: at least that's what it says on his business card...
Drama
Une indifférence douloureuse
4.6

Une indifférence douloureuse

Feb 01, 1987

Une indifférence douloureuse
1987 110 min 12 vues
Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday type: Lida the hairdresser has indiscriminate affairs, followed by numerous abortions; Rudik the doctor enjoys an endless supply of women, thanks to his position, neglecting his paralyzed father who lives with him and hoping the old man will die soon; the local officer of the law has no qualms about committing murder; a magician from the local circus might actually be sawing women in half on stage... One day, a mysterious man appears in this quiet backwater town. He goes by the title of the Executor: at least that's what it says on his business card...
Drama
Sauve et protège
5

Sauve et protège

Sep 05, 1990

Sauve et protège
1990 168 min 16 vues
Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday type: Lida the hairdresser has indiscriminate affairs, followed by numerous abortions; Rudik the doctor enjoys an endless supply of women, thanks to his position, neglecting his paralyzed father who lives with him and hoping the old man will die soon; the local officer of the law has no qualms about committing murder; a magician from the local circus might actually be sawing women in half on stage... One day, a mysterious man appears in this quiet backwater town. He goes by the title of the Executor: at least that's what it says on his business card...
Drama
Клетка
3

Клетка

Sep 17, 2015

Клетка
2015 100 min 1 vues
They don't really know each other. She lives in penury. He holds a pawnshop. Poverty makes her marry him, despite she doesn't love him and even despises. After the marriage takes place, the family war begins. Based on a novel 'A Gentle Creature' by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Drama
Чудо
5.2

Чудо

Oct 09, 2009

Чудо
2009 110 min 8 vues
The film is based on real events that took place in Samara in 1956 and known as the "Standing Zoe." During the holiday girl, without waiting her betrothed, removes the icon from the wall and Nicholas begins to dance with her, but suddenly freezes in place. This state continues for many months. Residents of the provincial town are frightened by this extraordinary event, which is cluttered with rumors and speculation. To try to understand the situation, there goes metropolitan newspaper journalist ...
Drama
Монах и бес
6.75

Монах и бес

Sep 08, 2016

Монах и бес
2016 115 min 40 vues
Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.
Mystery
Юрьев День
6.3

Юрьев День

Aug 12, 2008

Юрьев День
2008 134 min 24 vues
Before leaving Russia and moving to Western Europe, famous opera singer Lyuba travels to her hometown to say goodbye and show her teenage son around. But Andrey, Lyuba’s son, disappears and she must stay in the place she hates the most to search for him. A piercing exploration of identity and transformation, against the backdrop of a Russian hinterland, surrounded by Orthodox churches and snow.
Mystery
Faust
6.6

Faust

Sep 08, 2011

Faust
2011 140 min 198 vues
Before leaving Russia and moving to Western Europe, famous opera singer Lyuba travels to her hometown to say goodbye and show her teenage son around. But Andrey, Lyuba’s son, disappears and she must stay in the place she hates the most to search for him. A piercing exploration of identity and transformation, against the backdrop of a Russian hinterland, surrounded by Orthodox churches and snow.
Fantasy
Охрана
1

Охрана

Mar 31, 2016

Охрана
2016 116 min 1 vues
A story of a young girl Claudia who works as a security guard on a slowly dying metal plant.
Drama
Посвящённый
3

Посвящённый

Feb 17, 1990

Посвящённый
1990 120 min 3 vues
Volodya, who lives with his mother in the apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, gets a pre-revolutionary book on magic rituals of Africa. Reading it, Vladimir realizes that he became an owner the supernatural gift – he can kill people by his own will.
Mystery
Мысленный волк
5.2

Мысленный волк

Oct 24, 2019

Мысленный волк
2019 70 min 6 vues
The film is a parable about fear; it is a story about the attitudes of a mother and daughter deprived of love, who temporarily find mutual understanding, rallied by fear before the story invented by the mother about a cannibalistic wolf. On a philosophical level it is a reflection on the lost purity of thoughts, which is the main condition for the harmony of human life, and yet another illustration of the proverb: “The sleep of reason produces monsters”
Drama
La Voix solitaire de l'homme
5.7

La Voix solitaire de l'homme

Sep 05, 1987

La Voix solitaire de l'homme
1987 87 min 23 vues
The film is a parable about fear; it is a story about the attitudes of a mother and daughter deprived of love, who temporarily find mutual understanding, rallied by fear before the story invented by the mother about a cannibalistic wolf. On a philosophical level it is a reflection on the lost purity of thoughts, which is the main condition for the harmony of human life, and yet another illustration of the proverb: “The sleep of reason produces monsters”
Drama
Апокриф: Музыка для Петра и Павла
1

Апокриф: Музыка для Петра и Павла

Jun 06, 2004

Апокриф: Музыка для Петра и Павла
2004 140 min 1 vues
The film is dedicated to the little-known period of life of the great Russian composer P.I. Tchaikovsky. He appears before us not as a canonical gray-haired genius, recognized and crowned with world fame, but as a young, insecure man who comes to visit his sister for several summer days. Relatives and friends, “little people”, give the great artist love, care and spiritual support, helping him to find himself, to overcome “torture by the sounding world”. For them, as well as for the authors of the film, Tchaikovsky is an angel thrown to the ground, reminiscent of the ultimate mission of man ...
History
Нос, или Заговор «не таких»
7.1

Нос, или Заговор «не таких»

Mar 11, 2021

Нос, или Заговор «не таких»
2021 89 min 9 vues
The film is dedicated to the little-known period of life of the great Russian composer P.I. Tchaikovsky. He appears before us not as a canonical gray-haired genius, recognized and crowned with world fame, but as a young, insecure man who comes to visit his sister for several summer days. Relatives and friends, “little people”, give the great artist love, care and spiritual support, helping him to find himself, to overcome “torture by the sounding world”. For them, as well as for the authors of the film, Tchaikovsky is an angel thrown to the ground, reminiscent of the ultimate mission of man ...
Animation
Mère et Fils
6.7

Mère et Fils

Feb 20, 1997

Mère et Fils
1997 73 min 79 vues
The film is dedicated to the little-known period of life of the great Russian composer P.I. Tchaikovsky. He appears before us not as a canonical gray-haired genius, recognized and crowned with world fame, but as a young, insecure man who comes to visit his sister for several summer days. Relatives and friends, “little people”, give the great artist love, care and spiritual support, helping him to find himself, to overcome “torture by the sounding world”. For them, as well as for the authors of the film, Tchaikovsky is an angel thrown to the ground, reminiscent of the ultimate mission of man ...
Drama
Присутствие
1

Присутствие

Jun 10, 1993

Присутствие
1993 98 min 1 vues
A 1993 Russian language drama film directed by Andrei Dobrovolsky, starring Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandra Butorina and Aleksandr Adabashyan. The film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 1994.
Drama
Школа злословия
1

Школа злословия

Oct 23, 2005

Школа злословия
2005 min 1 vues
A young official named Schiller goes to the city of N. conduct an investigation. An ordinary, at first glance, case turns out to be a serious test for the investigator. From the first minutes of the young man's appearance in the city, mysterious incidents begin to haunt him.
Drama
Школа злословия
10

Школа злословия

Aug 17, 2007

Школа злословия
2007 min 1 vues
The author of The Kolyma Stories and many other works spent 17 years in the terrible GULAG camps on Kolyma. The term that Varlam Tikhonovich received in 1929 was for distributing Lenin's letter to the congress, in which he criticized Stalin. Nowadays, this letter is called the "testament of Lenin"…
Drama