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Andrei Rublev

  Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and Read More

Close to Eden

  The shepherd Gombo lives with his wife, three children and grandmother in a tent on the Mongolian steppe. They are pleased with their rustic conditions and theirs is a Read More

Crime and Punishment

  Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police Read More

Creation of Adam

  On the same day, Andrei’s wife Nina asks for a divorce, his colleague Natasha tells him she’s attracted to him, he’s assigned a new project under the direction of Read More

Freedom Is Paradise

  Following the death of his mother and the disappearance of his father, Sasha (Volodya Koryzev), a feisty Russian teen, is sent to live in a government-funded children’s home with Read More

Arsenal

  Set in the bleak aftermath and devastation of the World War I, a recently demobilized soldier, Timosh, returns to his hometown Kiev, after having survived a train wreck. His Read More

Aelita: Queen of Mars

  A mysterious radio message is beamed around the world, and among the engineers who receive it are Los, the hero, and his colleague Spiridonov. Los is an individualist dreamer. Read More

A Forgotten Tune for the Flute

  The film tells the story of a former musician who must make a hard choice between freedom with his mistress and a comfortable life with his wife. Previously, he Read More

Come and See

  Come and See is a 1985 Soviet anti-war film directed by Elem Klimov and starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova.  The film’s plot focuses on the Nazi German occupation Read More

Burnt by the Sun

  Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his village with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things Read More