Russian Films
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Below are the Russian movies in our DVD library which also contains Czech, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Albanian, Polish, Tajik, Kyrgyz, Hungarian and Armenian movies. A full list of films in the library is available here.
Russian Films
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7 фильмов из 7 стран. Гендерный монтаж.
(7 Films in 7 Countries: Gender Montage)
OSI's Women's Program, the Institute for Social and Gender Policy, the International Gender Policy Network, and OSI partners from 11 countries launched a series of documentary films exploring the lives and struggles of women in post-Soviet countries. The documentaries comprise the 2006 collection “Gender Montage: Films from Post-Soviet Space,” which aims to capture the immense challenges facing women in the former Soviet Union by focusing on a particular country and a single theme—from polygamy to labor migration, to domestic violence and paternity leave.
Gender Montage paired professional film makers with women’s human rights advocates, who provided guidance and expertise. The project also relied on its international advisors, including leading representatives from the Sundance Documentary Fund, Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, Women Make Movies, Internews-Russia, Swirl Productions, and TV Channel Culture (Russia), who provided support to each national film team and selected the films to be included in the collection.
9 Рота
(Ninth Company)
Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody war in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians.
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12 cтульев Захарова
(12 Chairs)
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds. More
1814
Detective story set up in the time and place of young Pushkin, at Tsarskosel'sky Liceum. More
72 метра
(72 Meters)
Every second is precious for a Russian submarine crew, as they are stranded 72 meters below the ocean's surface. More
1612 хроники смутного времени
(1612 Chronicle of the Time of Troubles)
The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles." There are many impostors who claim to the right to rule, but there's only one heir, the Czarina Kseniya Godunova. She has married a Polish military leader who wants to claim the Russian throne in her name so he can rule all of Russia. As the Poles move in on Moscow in an attempt to install the czarina on the throne, Andrei, a serf with a life-long infatuation of the czarina attempts to save her from her brutal Polish husband. A complicated story wrapped around mysticism and legend climaxes in a bloody battle between the Poles and the Russians for control of the empire.
- Written by Mark Pontoni More
Агония
(Agony)
Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination. More
Азазель
(Azazel)
…А зори здесь тихие
(Dawns Here are Quiet)
Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far from the front-line there is an anti-aircraft artillery point, where corporal Vaskov is stationed with a group of many young women in training. One of the women while sneaking from camp to visit her young son sees two German paratroopers. Vaskov takes five of the women to stop the two paratroopers, but finds sixteen paratroopers instead, leaving the small group of patriots to engage the enemy in an unequal fight.
- Written by Steve Shelokhonov More
Александра
(Aleksandra)
An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya. More
Алиса в стране чудес
(Alice in Wonderland)
The wizards behind The Odyssey (1997) and Merlin (1998) combine Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" into a two-hour special that just gets curiouser and curiouser. More
Андрей Рублев
(Andrei Rublev)
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer. More
Анна Каренина
(Anna Karenina)
Anna Karenina is a young wife of an older husband. She has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. By following her desires Anna complicates her life. More
Анна на шее
(Anna on the Neck)
Anna, a compulsive flirt, and Petra, a drunk, aren't getting a lot of work done. When their boss puts his 21-year-old punk rock daughter in charge, in walks trouble with a capital 'T'! More
[Анти] Киллер
([Anti] Killer)
Former criminal investigator, Major Korenev, nicknamed Fox is released from prison. He has been detained there as a result of planted incriminating evidence of unlawful investigation techniques. Setting accounts with Shaman - a big criminal boss, who ordered the evidence planted and also with his former colleagues was not a part of Korenev's agenda. As he returns to Moscow he finds a new world ruled by underworld bosses, criminal clans fighting each other and utter chaos on the desperately keeping appearances streets of Russian capital. Facing death of his friends, Major Korenev decides to re-install law and order using some unorthodox methods that are only relevant in 21st century Russia. More
Асса
(Assa)
ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
- Written by Andrew Obin More
Ашик-Кериб
(Ashik-Kerib / The Minstrel Kerib)
Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights - but not before he's got the daughter to promise not to marry till his return. It's told in typical Paradjanov style overlaid with Armenian folksongs.
- Written by Michael Brooke More
Аэропорт (4 DVDs)
(Airport)
A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved. More
Без вины виноватые
(Without Guilt)
Белорусский вокзал
(Belorussian Station)
Белый бим Черное ухо
(White Beem Black Ear)
Берегись автомобиля
(Watch Out for Cars)
The story of a Soviet "Robin Hood", who works as an insurance agent. Due to access to financial data, he can recognize some of his customers as the corrupt or fraudsters. Working 9-to-5 as an insurance agent, at night he becomes a car thief. He hijacks the cars of "bad guys" anonymously committing all money to charity. But the situation becomes complicated: his best friend is a cop who is trying to catch the serial car thief.
- Written by Hleb Rubanau More
Бой с тенью
(Shadow Boxing)
Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he expected...
- Written by Mark Gubarenko More
Большая Прогулка
(The Great Outing)
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops - and the consequences of their own blunders.
- Written by vlady@worldnet.att.netMore
Борис Годунов
(Boris Godunov)
The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early 17th century. The recording was actually made two years before the filming with the participation of the Washington Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich) and several opera stars (the part of Marina is sung by Galina Vishnevskaya). Zulawski made the film just as we would be watching the theatrical performance. Then we are going through the sets and, finally, we notice the film crew. The director deliberately filled the picture with a plenty of anachronisms making the implications on the Soviet history and the other dictatorships of the 20th century.
- Written by Yuri German More
Брат
(Brother)
An ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia. More
Брат 2
(Brother 2)
Here goes "kirdyk" to America, as it was promised in first part. More
Братья Карамазовы
(The Brothers Karamazov)
Three brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastary, one a gambler, and one an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia. More
Бременские музыканты
(The Bremen Town Musicians)
A loosely based story on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Town Musicians of Bremen about a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster and their master Troubadour. More
Бригада
(Brigade)
Brigada is a group of four friends, who grew up together and formed a most powerful gang in Moscow. Initially they made business together, but an unplanned murder transformed them into a gang. Now their lives are at risk and there is no way back.
- Written by Steve Shelokhonov More
Бриллиантовая рука
(Diamond Arm)
Semyon Gorbunkov, a friendly and naïve husband and a father of two goes on a world cruise. Visiting different countries and cities, him and his new friend Gennady, whom he met on the ship, have fun seeing the world. Arriving in Istanbul, Gorbunkov takes a stroll and accidentally slips and breaks his arm. Uttering a blasphemous phrase (which turns out to be a secret code intended for Gennady, a contrabandist), he is taken to a nearby "clinic", where an arm cast, being a decoy for jewellery and diamonds inside is put on his arm. Back in the USSR, Gorbunkov informs the police about his mishap...
- Written by Eli P. More
Бубен, барабан
(…)
Бумажный солдат
(Paper Soldier)
In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts. More
Бумер
(Beemer)
Corrupted cops, street gangs, "bratki" on "bummers" and "merins", angry truck drivers, beautiful women and death are what four friends on a black bummer who set up on mission from one region of Russia to another are about to face. Don't forget that the main four characters are far from angels themselves...
- Written by Pavel P. More
Бумер, фильм второй
(Beemer 2)
Василиса Прекрасная
(Vasilisa the Beautiful)
Ваши пальцы пахнут ладаном!
(Your Fingers Smell of Incense!)
Вертикаль
(Vertical)
A group of adventurers make a perilous journey up a mountain. More
Веселые ребята
(Merry Guys)
A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a TV special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other. More
Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки
(Evening in the villlage near Dikanka)
Вий
(Viy)
An 18th century English cartographer, Jonathan Green, sets out on a journey to map the uncharted lands of Transylvania, only to discover the dark secrets and dangerous creatures hidden in a cursed, fantastical Ukrainian forest. More