Russian Cinema - Page 7

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Eisenstein - The Sound Years (Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 & 2, Alexander Nevsky) - Criterion Collection
Actor: Sergei Eisenstein
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A biography of the first czar of Russia was the final movie project of the great Sergei Eisenstein's life. It would be his undoing, as Stalin was not pleased with part II of this epic. But Ivan the Terrible, Part I still stands as a magnificent, rich, and strange achievement. This is a "composed" film to make Hitchcock look slapdash; every ... more

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Peculiarities of the National Fishing
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
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The Russian male's two greatest loves, fishing and vodka, get tested to the breaking point in this rollicking comedy about best friends whose vacation goes hilarious awry. General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova lose their way on a fishing trip and wind up in Finland, where they decide to have a good time anyway but end up leaving their vodka ... more

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The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Director: Mark Donskoy
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The memoirs of the great Russian writer Maxim Gorky come to pungent life in part 1 of a prewar Soviet trilogy (it was followed by My Apprenticeship and My Universities). Director Mark Donskoy creates the endless hardships of Gorky's adolescence in small, precise scenes, orienting us in the 19th-century "lower depths" of czarist Russia. Refreshingly, the movie has no "great literature" ... more

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Kino-Eye/ Three Songs Of Lenin
Director: Dziga Vertov
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Dziga Vertov, whose renegade approach to cinema is best remembered in the legendary "Man With the Movie Camera" and his series of Kino-Pravda newsreels, demonstrates his mastery of montage in this 1924 feature previously unseen in the United States. "Kino-Eye" (1924, 74 min.) is a fascinating film, not just for its aesthetic beauty and political significance, but for honestly documenting a ... more

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Man with a Movie Camera
Director: Dziga Vertov
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Moloch
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
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In an ominous fortress perched high above the clouds, everything seems in order for a reposing 24 hours. It is the spring of 1942 and Eva Braun (Elena Rufanova) is the only voice that dares to contradict the Fuhrer. She gets caught up in the complexities of a man incapable of human intimacy, making her as volcanic as her beloved Hitler. ... more

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Agony:Life and Death of Rasputin
Actor: Aleksei Petrenko
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The Ballad of Bering Strait
Director: Nina Gilden Seavey
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The Ballad of Bering Strait is a sharp and sensitive documentary about the emotionally perilous journey of several classically trained Moscow musicians who dream of breaking into Nashville's seemingly impenetrable country scene. Superb in technique and soulful in performance, these gifted veterans of Russia's famously rigorous musical training comprise Bering Strait, a hard-charging, rootsy band with solid bluegrass credentials and country-pop ... more

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The Golden Horns
Director: Aleksandr Rou
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In this adaptation of popular Russian fairy tales, witchy Baba Yaga kidnaps two little girls and turns them into beautiful does. Unwilling to resign to her loss, their mother sets out on a quest in which she finds many helpful volunteers: the Sun, the Moon, the Wind and the Deer with the Golden Horns. Filled with magical characters, miraculous transformations and ... more

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Treasure Island
Director: Yevgeni Fridman
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Jim, a dashing young man who dreams of thrilling adventures, comes across an old sea chart. It shows to way to a treasure hidden by the legendary pirate Captain Flint. The loot is buried on an island lost in the ocean. Jim and his friends venture on a dangerous seabound journey, but it turns out they are traveling on the same ... more

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