Released Date:
1977-10-26
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Soviet Union
Runtime:
159 min
IMDB Ratings:
8.5 (4080 Reviews)
Director:
Eldar RyazanovEmil Braginskiy (play)
Emil Braginskiy (screenplay)
Eldar Ryazanov (play)
Eldar Ryazanov (screenplay)
Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director of the institution, wants to make Novoseltsev the head of the department but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other...
Released Date:
1980-04-17
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Soviet Union
Runtime:
163 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
8.2 (60019 Reviews)
Director:
Andrei TarkovskyArkadiy Strugatskiy (novel)
Boris Strugatskiy (novel)
Arkadiy Strugatskiy (screenplay)
Boris Strugatskiy (screenplay)
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Over his wife's objections, a man rises in the early morning and leaves her with their disabled daughter to meet two men. He's a Stalker, one of a handful who have the mental gifts (and who risk imprisonment) to lead people into the Zone to the Room, a place where one's secret hopes come true. His clients are a burned out popular writer, cynical, and questioning his talent; and a quiet scientist more concerned about his knapsack than the journey. In the deserted Zone, the approach to the Room must be indirect. As they draw near, the rules seem to change and the stalker faces a crisis.
Released Date:
1985-11-15
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Soviet Union
Runtime:
104 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (781 Reviews)
Director:
Elem KlimovSemyon Lungin
Ilya Nusinov
Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the indecisive Nicholas, and the religious Czarina worships the Siberian as God. He manipulates the Czar in his relations with the Duma and influences the choice of a new premier. Rasputin assaults a baroness; her husband is jailed for defending her, and she must offer sexual favors to Rasputin to save her husband. The Czar finally orders Rasputin from St. Petersburg, but somehow he enters the palace and, in a disheveled trance, convinces the Czar to make a disastrous change in war strategy. A cadre of nobles take matters into their own hands and arrange a last dinner party for the interloping monk.
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