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The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and
Ayka
Disappeared
Felix Herngren 114 min Sergei Dvortsevoy 100 min
After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds A poor woman without a job struggles to raise her child.
himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday,
he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected
12 jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the
charged with murdering his stepfather. Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving
Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK
A dying CIA agent trying to reconnect with his estranged During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a
daughter is offered an experimental drug that could save medal as a reward for a heroic act at the front...
his life in exchange for one last assignment.
See Mowgli now! Mowgli will inspire young, artistic and A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister
musically minded audiences everywhere with it's original reality for a family from the city.
score, fantastic animal costumes, and lively ballet...and
The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny
army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights. and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a
police massacre.
A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A In order to make good with his former employers, a
young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to
in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces. search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine
People living in a seaside town are frightened by reports An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the
about an unknown creature in the ocean. Nobody knows family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
what it is, but it's really the son of Doctor Salvator. The
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Here goes "kirdyk" to America, as it was promised in first
Russian iconographer. part.
Two Soviet partisans depart their starving band on a In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his
short march to a nearby farm to get supplies. The position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.
Germans have reached the farm first...
School teacher is cheating on his wife and lies about it. Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is
spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young...
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Carlos is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, but he's During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and
also a murderer in the shadows. He feels no remorse, no Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some
guilt, until Nina appears in his life and love awakens. Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles
A disgraced member of the military police investigates a The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to
series of nasty child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends
Union. with a seasoned local hunter.
The shepherd Gombo lives with his wife, three children Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise. In Istanbul, he
and grandmother in a tent on the Mongolian steppe... slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is...
Former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai live as exiles Dima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly
in a remote Siberian village. After the general Soviet decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in
gulag amnesty of 1953 8 pardoned common criminals order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old
One of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century, June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to
Sergei Parajanov's "Color of the Pomegranate,"... the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from
France arrives in Odessa...
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion
Army and experiences the horrors of World War II. threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance,
she must hatch a desperate plan ...
Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was
bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and...
II shortly thereafter.
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the A father and his son live together in a roof-top
Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own
One night he learns that his twin daughters may be private world, full of memories and daily rites.
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged During World War II, Georgy Makharashvili, an old
Italian tells his story of love to a Russian... peasant wine-grower, leaves his Georgian village and
goes off to the front lines to find his son...
The world after the nuclear apocalypse. Pale light lits the A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange
scenery of total destruction. The surviving... for one night with a beautiful young woman.
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A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces
Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends
border stronghold for nine days. as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
GAGARIN: FIRST IN SPACE, is a feature film featuring Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time
amazing SFX, that celebrates the bravery and machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment
achievements of Yuri Gagarin... complex manager...
A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a During World War II, 12-year old Ivan works as a spy on
criminal nicknamed "Docent" who stole the priceless... the eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German
lines unnoticed to collect information...
The Geographer Drank His Globe Away Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Aleksandr Veledinskiy 120 min Kenneth Branagh 105 min
The ordinary troubles of the ordinary teacher in the Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a
ordinary class during the ordinary midlife crisis. Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist
attack.
Hamlet Jauja
Grigori Kozintsev 140 min Lisandro Alonso 109 min
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an
father murdered by Claudius, Hamlet's uncle. Claudius unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the
usurps the throne of Denmark, and marries Hamlet's confines of civilization.
A group of scientists are sent to the planet Arkanar to Story of a Tajik cart driver.
help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase
of its own history, to find the right path to progress.
Henry is resurrected from death with no memory, and he Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's
must save his wife from a telekinetic warlord with a plan Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign
to bio-engineer soldiers. accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors'
The movie describes real events that took place in 1983, In this comic but dated story, nerdy Shurik travels to the
when seven young Georgians, all from intellectual elite Caucasus in search of native legends and folklore...
families, attempted to flee the Soviet Union by hijacking
A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Two men besiege a lunch bar looking for a third man
Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel... they must kill.
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Kin-dza-dza! Mimino
Georgiy Daneliya 135 min Georgiy Daneliya 95 min
Kin-Dza-Dza is something like an "advanced cyberpunk Pilot Mimino works at small local airlines in Georgia,
film". It's a lot about people and social structures... flying helicopters between small villages. He dreams of
piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His
daughters, giving great importance to their protestations childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and
of love for him... things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian
A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who
receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a was a slave before going on to conquer half the world
sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out including Russia in 1206.
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to
Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love,
commitment to a life devoid of material things. disillusions...
In a Russian coastal town, Nikolai is forced to fight the A slow and poignant story of love and patience told via a
corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be dying mother nursed by her devoted son. The...
demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the
Injured on the job Vasily Kuzyakin gets a ticket to the While preparing for their wedding, Shang and Mulan are
resort. There he meets femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, suddenly sent off on a secret mission. Mushu starts to
and once under the charm, moves to live with her. meddle, and a surprise attack by Mongolians doesn't
A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, A couple going through a divorce must team up to find
living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter
before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very arguments.
Retired Soviet Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, who saved the The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by
world from WW3, talks about his life as retiree and guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through...
shares his opinions on the Cold War with actor Kevin
At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent,
a femme-fatal type who happens to be dating his friend middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older
and soon-to-be brother-in-law. servant...
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Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast Know what this is about?
is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor Be the first one to add a plot.
infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind
An old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes Arriving home to find his native land under the yoke of
a huge catch, the biggest of his life. corrupt merchants, an adventurer named Sadko sets sail
in search of a mythical bird of happiness.
The movie consists of 3 short movies, each about Shurik After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate
- a nerdy student.. 1. "Naparnik" ("Partner")... father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her.
Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and
Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society
just that... cut off from spirituality.
Otello is a husband, who kills his young wife out of The series, based on a popular novel of the same name,
jealousy. depicts the exploits of a Russian spy Isaev, working
undercover as Standartenfuhrer Stierlitz...
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka,
The only way to reach the mainland is to... the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls
her...
A six-hour long epic (original director's cut) about the life In a magical faraway land, in a picturesque little village
of Don Cossacs in a village in southern Russia between nestled among green meadows and rolling hills...
1912 and 1922. The leading character Grigori Melekhov
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' The story about a very small god-forgotten village in
defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a... Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning
of the century till early 80s...
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village
new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old
know only through a single photograph - resurfaces. grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his Present days. A man and his companion go on a journey
scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through to cremate the dead body of the former beloved wife, on
the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters a riverbank in the area where they spent their
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Know what this is about? A self-pitying but popular playwright drives to Vladimir to
Be the first one to add a plot. relax with a doting female student and another writer...
The life of entire statistical bureau becomes crazy when A woman meets a man who isn't the right man for her -
an ordinary worker - a shy male - falls in love with a but she hasn't realised it yet...
boss - a strict female.
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant A Russian Prince experiences battle against Napoleon
planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to and a troubled relationship with his father and wife...
go insane.
A band of Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an
building in their devastated city against a ruthless ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher...
German army, and in the process become deeply
A guide leads two men through an area known as the A white dog called Bim is looking for its owner. It
Zone to find a room that grants wishes. encounters all kinds of people and situations.
Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes This film is about psychology of people, about lonesome
convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic
begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults dreams...
A take on the life of the the poet, Rudaki. A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on
Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in
an alternate timeline where they never existed.
An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her Know what this is about?
husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia Be the first one to add a plot.
during WWII.
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