Released Date:
1996-11-13
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia, France
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (512 Reviews)
Director:
Nikita MikhalkovNikita Mikhalkov
Sergei Miroshnichenko
Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna such questions as "What do you love the most?", "What scares you the most?", "What do you want above anything" and "What do you hate the most?"
Released Date:
1995-04-21
Languages:
Russian, French
Countries:
Russia, France
Runtime:
135 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(10385 Reviews)
Director:
Nikita MikhalkovRustam Ibragimbekov (dialogue)
Rustam Ibragimbekov (screenplay)
Nikita Mikhalkov (screenplay)
Nikita Mikhalkov (story)
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
Released Date:
2010-04-22
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
181 min
IMDB Ratings:
4.1 (3215 Reviews)
Director:
Nikita MikhalkovNikita Mikhalkov
Vladimir Moiseenko
Aleksandr Novototskiy-Vlasov
Gleb Panfilov
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Burnt by the Sun (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in the front lines. His daughter, Nadia, who survived a rape attempt by Nazi soldiers, is now a nurse risking her own life to save others. In the war-torn nation even former enemies are fighting together to defend their land. People stand up united for the sake of victory. The deadly war comes at very high cost: the Nazis are killing people, burning villages, raping women, bombing churches, destroying bridges. Hoping to survive, Kotov and his daughter are having visions of each other, but their dreams fade amidst massive bombardment. Fire and smoke eclipses the sun. The land around becomes lifeless, defenseless and littered with the dead. Then the dead are covered by snow. Life is over. Only a butterfly is flying above the weapons and corpses, alluding to eternity.
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