Posted on October 25, 2018
Farewell chronicles a 90-year old man’s emigration to Israel from his Soviet Bessarabian town. The film visualizes a particular moment in Soviet and immediate post-Soviet history when Jews are Read More
Posted on October 23, 2018
This film traces the turbulent life of one of the greatest writers of the 19th century, Leo Tolstoy. We follow his life from childhood through his stormy marriage and Read More
Posted on October 23, 2018
Combing through the eyewitness testimony of men who “ran” the Soviet state during Stalin’s reign of terror, Semyon Aranovich charts their diabolical power games with often astonishing revelations about Read More
Posted on August 15, 2018
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style is a 1967 Soviet comedy film with a humorous plot revolving around bride kidnapping, an old tradition that used to exist in certain regions of the Read More
Posted on August 15, 2018
After feasting on her grandmother’s jam with her cat, a young Russian girl named Olya finds herself able to step through a mirror. Doing so, she enters into the Read More
Posted on August 15, 2018
Strange Russian fairy tale dealing with a boy and a girl who go through the strangest situations to be with one another. The boy is transformed by a Mushroom Read More
Posted on August 15, 2018
A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting party. His Read More
Posted on August 15, 2018
Kuzmich and Semyonov feel bored at the 13th cordon until the season of “checks” and “inspections” begins. The first inspectors are from the Ministry of Forestry, followed by two Read More
Posted on August 15, 2018
One night, a patrol rushes into the chambers of the Russian prince Pavel, son of the Empress Catherine. The Empress has died, and Pavel is to be anointed the Read More
Posted on August 15, 2018
Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin’s favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two Read More
