Russian Cinema - Page 13

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The Stars' Caravan
Director: Arto Halonen
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Aladdin's Magic Lamp
Director: Boris Rytsarev
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A made-in-Russia film version of the colorful Oriental fairy tale. The beautiful daughter of a Sultan, Boudour lives in Bagdad. Anyone who dares to look at her is executed. But the willful and capricious princess commands Aladdin to look at her. The moment the young man does so, he falls in love with her. And the magic lamp with the omnipotent ... more

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123. Nautilus
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Director: Aleksandr Ptushko
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This beloved fairy tale chronicles the adventures of the brave Tsarevich Guidon, the thirty three knights led by Chernomor, the beautiful and bewitched Tsarevna Swan, and Tsar Saltan, who seeks to repair his destroyed family life. Based on a poem by the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. ... more

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Spiritual Voices
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
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In 1994, Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their experiences. Though Russia had pulled out of its war with Afghanistan in 1989, a shadowy enemy still dogs the Russian troops along the border. While unnamed tribal forces occasionally engage the troops in skirmishes, Sokurov’s haunting documentary actually chronicles the down time ... more

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126. Assassin of the Star
Actor: Malcom Mcdowell
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The Scam
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Successful businessman and former physicist Andrei Davydov plots an unprecedented scam aimed at causing the downfall of the world's financial markets. However, love interferes with his careful operation. ... more

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Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography
Director: Oleg Kovalov
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The great Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein, whose Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky, and Ivan the Terrible stand as masterpieces of world cinema, is the subject of this eccentric and puzzling production. Though based on memoirs Eisenstein wrote before his death in 1948, most of this film is barely a documentary at all, but rather a composite of images, many of which are ... more

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Solaris
Actors: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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The Russian answer to 2001, and very nearly as memorable a movie. The legendary Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky made this extremely deliberate science-fiction epic, an adaptation of a novel by Stanislaw Lem. The story follows a cosmonaut (Donatas Banionis) on an eerie trip to a planet where haunting memories can take physical form. Its bare outline makes it sound like a ... more

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Mimino
Actor: Edmond Keosayan
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In this outrageous cult comedy, Valiko Mizandari – nicknamed "Mimino" (the falcon) – services small villages in the mountains of Georgia with his helicopter. The pilot is loved by everyone and dreams of piloting a large international airlines aircraft, so he leaves for Moscow, only to find his dream more complicated than he could have imagined. Filled with charming local color, ... more

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