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The Idiot part 3

  Part 6 Natasya Filippovna wants to arrange a marriage between Myshkin and Aglaya in spite of their own feelings for the prince. Part 7 The prince is upset because Read More

The Idiot part 2

  Part 4 Rogozhin jealous of his beloved and Prince Myshkin. He plans to kill him. Part 5 The son of Pavlishchev, who had left the entirety of his estate Read More

Prisoner of the Mountains

  On patrol in the Caucasus mountains, Russian soldiers Vanya (Sergei Bodrov Jr.) and Sacha (Oleg Menshikov) become the prisoners of a Chechen village. Tribal leader Abdul-Murat (Jemal Sikharulidze) is Read More

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

  Living together in a workers’ dorm, Katerina (Vera Alentova) and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman (Juri Wassiliev) forces himself on Read More

Luna Papa

  In a small village not far from Samarkand, seventeen-year-old Mamlakat dreams of becoming an actress. One moonlit night, she is seduced by a mysterious stranger who claims to be Read More

Autumn Marathon

  Andrei Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin’s main problem is that he’s a kind Read More

The Idiot part 1

  Part 1 Prince Myshkin returns from Switzerland to Russia and enters the house of Elanchins. There he first sees the portrait of Nastasya Filippovna, whose beauty makes an indelible Read More

Onegin

  In 1820s St. Petersburg, Russia, the cynical nobleman Onegin (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself the new owner of a country estate following the death of his uncle. Deciding to abandon Read More

Lolita

  In early adolescence, Humbert fell hopelessly and tragically in love with a girl his own age, and, as he grew into adulthood, he never lost his obsession with “nymphets,” Read More

Hipsters

  Set in mid-1950s Moscow, the film depicts the Soviet stilyagi subculture, along with their struggle for self-expression within the prevailing reality of the Soviet repression.  While the Cold War Read More