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Stalker

  In a small, unnamed country there is an area called the Zone. It is apparently inhabited by aliens and contains the Room, where in it is believed wishes are Read More

Scarecrow

  A twelve year old girl, Lena, who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates.  She slowly reveals the Read More

Russian Ark

  On a winter’s day, a small party of men and women arrive by horse-drawn carriage to a minor, side entrance of the Winter Palace of the Hermitage in St. Read More

The Orphans

  A story about a group of Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the World War II.

Ivan the Terrible

  Ivan the Terrible is a two-part historical epic film about Ivan IV of Russia, written and directed by the filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. It was Eisenstein’s last film, commissioned by Read More

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

The Elementary School

  Set in post-war Czechoslovakia, the elementary school explores the lives of pre-adolescent boys in a series of fondly remembered vignettes. The Nazis have departed and the communists have not 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