Movies

Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart.

This film was Sokurov's first feature at Lenfilm, roughly based on a short story by the contemporary Soviet writer Grigory Baklanov about the...

Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom...

A new father could not be more happy about the birth of his first son...until he learns that the baby is not biologically his. In spite of...

Closely based on Franz Kafka's book "Das Schloß", the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a village to do a job...

Based around the testimonies of four German women, this documentary details the abuse women suffered during after WWII at the hands of the Soviet...

The script is based on Borges's story "The Gospel according to St. Mark".

This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs...

Documentary about Arseniy Tarkovsky, poet and father of Andrei Tarkovsky.

The end of the XVIII century. The reign of Catherine II. In the deep Russian provinces, among the vast steppes of the Ural escaped convict Yemelyan...

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".

When a charming crook sold fake archaeological treasures to a naive foreigner, he did not know what he was doing: an overseas guest turned out to be...

A performance by the Alexandrinsky Theatre based on the eponymous play by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. The production is based on the stage version by...

The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick...

The events of the film take place in a resort area South of the seaside city, beautiful and alien. The heroine of the film - girls orphanage for...

Representatives of the Russian nobility gathered at the dacha. A young nobleman Vlas, in love with the mistress of the estate, a simpering poetess, a...

An experimental drama about a boy and his illness, a wife looking for a site for her husband’s construction company and a beautiful girl who...

The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it...

"Poetic documentary about the prominent Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky (1907/1989), father of director Andrei Tarkovsky. Arseny Tarkovsky translated...