81.	View Larger Image	Bizet - Carmen Suite / Plisetskaya, Fadeyechev, Radchenko, Bolshoi Ballet Actors: Nicolai Fadeyechev, Sergei Radchenko, Maria Plisetskaya
		From Description VAI DVD 4294 Maria Plisetskaya, Nikolai Fadeyechev, Sergei Radchenko, Bolshoi Ballet. Choregraphy by Alberto Alonso. Music by Rodion Schedrin. Bonuses of Plisetskaya in performance – "Dying Swan", "Raymonda Variations", Bach Prelude". Approx. 70 min. Color. 1970’s film ... more Buy from Amazon

82.	View Larger Image	Passions Director: Kira Muratova
		From Description Blonde Lilia and brunette Violetta are fascinated by horse racing, and the young racers are more than a little attracted to them, too. However, the worlds of sporting and romance don't always coexist peacefully as the two girls learn the hard way through a series of touching, surreal, and sometimes heartbreaking encounters. One of the most beautifully photographed Russian films in ... more Buy from Amazon

83.	View Larger Image	Little Vera Actors: Natalya Negoda, Andrei Sokolov Director: Vasili Pichul
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84.	View Larger Image	Captivating Star of Happiness Actor: Vladimir Motyl
		From Description On December 14, 1825, the military units of the Russian army were ordered to swear their allegiance to new czar Nicholas I. However, the young officers abhorred this idea and raised their regiments to bring democracy to the country. However, this heroic feat was crushed; many instigators were executed, with others sent to hard labor in Siberia. This remarkable film chronicles ... more Buy from Amazon

85.	View Larger Image	Ruslan and Ludmila (Not Opera) Director: Aleksandr Ptushko
		From Description Based on a poem by the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, this beautiful fairy tale is the masterpiece of acclaimed fantasist Alexander Ptushko (Viy). In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, the bride is kidnapped by evil sorcerer Chernomor. All the mighty warriors and heroes in the land are summoned, but only Ruslan stands a chance ... more Buy from Amazon

86.	View Larger Image	Earth Actors: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
		From Amazon.com Some Soviet films from the 1920s occasionally feel like work, but not this one. By general consensus, Earth is among the most exalted of all silent films. Alexander Dovzhenko drew upon memories of his rural Ukrainian childhood for this lyrical ode to peasants (in true Soviet fashion, they are radicalized by the arrival of a new tractor). What is so remarkable ... more Buy from Amazon

87.	View Larger Image	Oblomov Actors: Oleg Tabakov, Yuri Bogatyryov, Yelena Solovey Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
		From Amazon.com Writer-director Nikita Mikhalkov (Burnt by the Sun) combines some accomplished and evocative visuals with a tongue-in-cheek morality play about the price of personal freedom in this 1979 adaptation of the 19th-century Russian novel by Goncharov. Oleg Tabakov plays the title character, an amiable and enigmatic man who, after years of anonymous toiling as a landowner, begins to live his life in ... more Buy from Amazon

88.	View Larger Image	Nest of the Gentry
		From Description After a long trip traveling through 1840s Europe, nobleman Lavretsky returns home to a familiar estate dear to his heart. While visiting his neighbors he meets the enchanting Lisa, spurring him to forget his wife and his past in Paris. Adapted from a novel by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, this romantic tale of passion is a visually sumptuous classic. ... more Buy from Amazon

89.	View Larger Image	Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Russian Songs of the War Years Actors: Constantine Orbelian, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Dmitri Hvorostovsky
		From Description VAI DVD 4318. Moscow Chamber Orch/Orbelian. 2003 concert, Color, Stereo, 59 min. ... more Buy from Amazon

90.	View Larger Image	Barbara The Fair With The Silken Hair Director: Aleksandr Rou
		From Description Once upon a time there lived a Tsar named Yeremey who went on a year-long journey to take inventory of all he owned. One day he is kidnapped by the underwater Tsar Chudo-Yudo. When a ransom is demanded, the Tsar's family is faced with all kinds of intrigue and treachery. Full of remarkable adventures, magical changes and other fun, "Barbara the ... more Buy from Amazon