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.
Released Date:
2007-09-20
Languages:
Russian, Chechen
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
159 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (10790 Reviews)
Director:
Nikita MikhalkovNikita Mikhalkov
Aleksandr Novototskiy-Vlasov
Vladimir Moiseenko
A loose remake of 12 Angry Men (1957), set in a Russian school. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather who took the teenager to live with him in Moscow during the Chechen War in which teenager lost his parents. The jurors: a racist taxi-driver, a suspicious doctor, a vacillating TV producer, a Holocaust survivor, a flamboyant musician, a cemetery manager, and others represent the fragmented society of modern day Russia. A stray bird (a touch of New Age cinema) is flying above the jurors' heads, alluding to tolerance.
Released Date:
2009-01-01
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.3 (4087 Reviews)
Director:
Fedor BondarchukEduard Volodarskiy
Marina Dyachenko
Sergey Dyachenko
Arkadiy Strugatskiy (original book)
Boris Strugatskiy (original book)
On the threshold of 22nd century, furrowing the space, protagonist from the Free Search Group makes emergency landing on an unknown planet where he must stay. People who are living on this planet have remained at the stone level of the 20th century, with its social problems, miserable ecology and shaky world...
Released Date:
2007-10-04
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (197 Reviews)
Director:
Pavel ChukhrayGenres:
ComedyPavel Chukhray
Nikolai Gogol (novel)
Released Date:
2009-05-07
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia, Sweden
Runtime:
107 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (740 Reviews)
Director:
Anders BankeHing-Ka Chan (screenplay)
Sam Klebanov (screenplay)
Aleksandr Lungin (screenplay)
Tin-Shing Yip (screenplay)
A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police incompetence is soon the lead story in every news bulletin. Public confidence in law and order now suffers irreparable harm. The head of the Moscow force welcomes a public search-and-destroy operation against these thugs, the brainchild of Katya, his PR director. She proposes that the capture of this dangerous gang be transformed into a live TV show of a kind never seen before. At this point she cannot know that the gang leader's life-and-death struggle with the police is destined to lead to a media duel. Besieged in a huge apartment block, the crooks hold hostage a father and his son and daughter. A massive special forces rescue operation is mounted but fails miserably. Undaunted by this setback, Katya and her team of specialists manipulate the footage to create the illusion of victory. Incensed by this version of events broadcast on TV, gang leader Herman strikes back. Using the boy's computer he uploads to the Internet his own footage of this debacle and starts broadcasting from the apartment via a web camera. The first shots have now been fired in an information war, whose survivors and victors have yet to emerge.
Released Date:
2009-04-23
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.1 (1889 Reviews)
Director:
Fedor BondarchukMarina Dyachenko (screenplay)
Sergey Dyachenko (screenplay)
Arkadiy Strugatskiy (original book "Obitaemyy ostrov")
Boris Strugatskiy (original book "Obitaemyy ostrov")
Eduard Volodarskiy (screenplay)
Maxim Kammerer fights for his love and freedom. He leads a rebel movement challenging the five greedy rulers. One of the rulers, Strannik, knows how dangerous Maxim can be. He makes up his mind to stop the young man at any cost. The last close fight will decide everything.
Released Date:
2010-09-23
Languages:
Russian, German
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
124 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (2187 Reviews)
Director:
Aleksey UchitelAleksandr Gonorovskiy (story)
Aleksandr Gonorovskiy
The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.
Released Date:
2011-11-03
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
127 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (695 Reviews)
Director:
Oleg PogodinGenres:
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