4 Movies Starring Artur Smolyaninov

9th Company

9th Company

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-09-29

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Finland, Russia, Ukraine

Runtime:

139 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (15584 Reviews)

Fullplot:

The film is based on a true story of the 9th company during the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan in the 1980's. Young Soviet Army recruits are sent from a boot camp into the middle of the war in Afghanistan. The action is not like a boot camp at all. It is very bloody and dirty. The 9th company is defending the hill 3234. They are hopelessly calling for help.

Zhara

Zhara

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-12-28

Languages:

Russian, English, Azerbaijani

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

4.8 (910 Reviews)

Fullplot:

1612: Khroniki smutnogo vremeni

1612: Khroniki smutnogo vremeni

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-11-01

Languages:

Russian, Polish, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

144 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (1665 Reviews)

Fullplot:

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.

Nirvana

Nirvana

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-07-03

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Russia

Runtime:

93 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (277 Reviews)

Director:

Igor Voloshin

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Young Alisa is fed up with her life in Moscow, and moves to St. Petersburg. Her roommates in the collective flat are two junkies, Vel and her boyfriend Valera the Dead Man. First they fight, but soon the two women form a friendship. Together they even go after the Petersburg underworld when Dead Man is abducted because he can't pay his debts.

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