Released Date:
1969-01-10
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Soviet Union
Runtime:
232 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (400 Reviews)
Genres:
DramaFyodor Dostoevsky (novel)
Ivan Pyryev
The 1968 film shows Fedor Karamazov as a stingy old man, who's three sons are after his money. The Karamazov brothers, Dmitri, a gambler, Ivan, a thinker, and Aleksei, a monk, are living through their different problems. Ivan is trying to save the world by making a story of "The Great Inquisitor". Dmitri, who lost money in gambling, is begging his father to help him. But the father gives a lot of money to his mistress Grushenka.
Released Date:
1971-01-14
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Soviet Union
Runtime:
196 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (583 Reviews)
Aleksandr Alov
Mikhail A. Bulgakov (books)
Vladimir Naumov
The defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called "White Russians". Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and Paris. The Russian Civil War and emigration is shown through the eyes of the defeated Tsarist Generals - Vrangel, Khludov, Charnota, as well as intellectuals and aristocracy. Amidst the chaos of emigration rough generals Khludov and Charnota become involved in the unfolding love story of professor Golubkov and Serafima. While General Khludov is having hallucinations about the Civil War, General Charnota is more tough and practical. He goes to Paris to frame a wealthy Russian tycoon Korzukhin to support his former wife Serafima and other suffering Russian emigrants.
Released Date:
1999-04-19
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (1449 Reviews)
Director:
Stanislav GovorukhinAleksandr Borodyanskiy
Yuri Polyakov
Stanislav Govorukhin
Viktor Pronin (novel)
A very typical post-Soviet era storyline. Three young men lured an innocent teenage girl to their apartment, offered her a drink, intimidated then gang raped her. Local cops are incapable to undertake an adequate action against the scoundrels - prevented by the superior chief of the local police (militia) which is the dad of one the scumbags. The case is closed. The girl's grand-dad tired of endless circumlocution decides to take revenge of his own.
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