Russian Cinema - Page 8

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Three Soviet Classics (Earth / The End of St. Petersburg / Chess Fever)
Directors: Mikhail Doller, Vsevolod Pudovkin
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Tchaikovsky
Director: Igor Talankin
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Vassilisa the Beautiful
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There once lived a father who had three sons; the two eldest, Anton and Agafon, had chosen themselves regular brides, but the youngest, Ivanushka, brought home a frog from the marshes! However, the frog was actually the beautiful Vassilisa, over whom Gorynych the Serpent had cast a magical spell when she refused to marry him. Filled with spectacular monsters (including a ... more

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Confession
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
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A unique documentary that chronicles the lives of a soul-searching ship’s captain and his young sailors as they sail the Arctic region in a Russian naval ship. Narrated mostly by the captain, the film focuses on the daily duties associated with a ship based in the Arctic, but it is also a study in human solitude and the effects of isolation. ... more

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Slave of Love
Actor: Nikita Mikhalkov
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In a small Crimean town, a motion picture cameraman illegally films resistance activity and tries to awaken the political consciousness of a glamorous movie star. ... more

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Short Cinema Journal 1:3 - Authority
Actors: Short, Jane Campion
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Short 3: Authority, the Warner Bros.-revised reissue of PolyGram's digital magazine, is a tenuously linked but rich collection of classic and contemporary short films. Apart from Performance McKean, a slight little piece with Michael McKean doing a subdued Denis Leary-esque riff, nothing really anchors the theme of "authority," but Alain Resnais's powerful and moving 1955 documentary Night and Fog gives the ... more

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Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker / Vassiliev, Maximova, Bolshoi Ballet
Director: Igor Talankin
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Brigands - Chapter VII
Director: Otar Iosseliani
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"A must-see!" - CHICAGO READER ** GRAND JURY PRIZE, VENICE FILM FESTIVAL ** "Four stars!" - CHICAGO TRIBUNE - The NEW YORK TIMES called it "wise, sad, chilling and funny" and the CHICAGO READER said BRIGANDS, CHAPTER VII is "a witty, despairing art movie." Vano, the main character, is the king of a country so beautiful and so rich that all ... more

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The Donkey's Hide
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Based on the classic Charles Perrault fairy tale, this delight for the whole family follows Therese, daughter of the widowed King Gaston IX, whose christening brings a wicked fairy who prophesies hard trials in the girl's future. When she falls in love years later with a poor prince, she must disguise herself in a donkey's hide to avoid recognition from the ... more

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Hunting Drama
Actor: Emil Lotyanu
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In this riveting drama based on a story by legendary Russian novelist Anton Chekhov, successful investigator Sergei Kamyshev meets beautiful, young Olenka while visiting a friend in the country. The neighborhood men are obsessed with her beauty and displeased that she is engaged to marry an old estate manager. However, her wedding day confession that she actually loves Kamyshev triggers a ... more

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