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1) Stalker
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Russian
Description
At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill man's greatest desires. Only the Stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers tests the limits of their endurance. At the end they must...
2) 9th company
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Russian
Description
Based on a true story of the 9th company during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s. Young Soviet Army recruits are sent from boot camp directly into the war in Afghanistan. Real war is not like boot camp at all. This inexperienced company is sent to defend a difficult position, a task which may be beyond their capabilities.
3) 12
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Russian
Description
Set in contemporary Moscow where 12 men must decide the fate of a young man accused of murdering his step-father. Consigned to a makeshift jury room, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Russian
Description
After discovering his mother is still alive, a six-year-old Russian boy runs away from his orphanage and sets out on a perilous journey to find her. Pursued by orphanage staff and the police, Vanya Solntsev must now face the most difficult challenges of his young life in this story inspired by true events.
Series
Film Movement volume year 8, film 10
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Russian
Description
On a desolate island in the Arctic Circle, two men work at a small meteorological station, taking readings from their radioactive surroundings. One day while Sergei is out, inexperienced Pavel receives terrible news for Sergei from HQ. Intimidated, Pavel can't bring himself to disclose the information. When the truth is finally revealed, the consequences explode against a chilling backdrop of thick fog, sharp rocks, and the merciless Arctic Sea.
7) Come and see
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Russian
Description
An innocent young farm lad goes off to join the partisans fighting the Nazis and comes to experience, if not understand, the horrors of war.
8) Solaris
Series
Criterion collection volume 164
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Russian
Description
Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
9) I am dragon
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Russian
Description
Princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on a remote island. Now the only things she has are a stone cage and a mysterious young man named Arman; but who is he and what is he doing on the island?
10) Strike
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Russian
Description
Mark the most outstanding cinematic debuts in the history of film. Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner, and Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most harrowing and powerful sequences, the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation....
11) Stalingrad
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Russian
Description
An epic look at the battle that turned the tide of World War II. A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there. The scale of the battle contrasts dramatically with the human drama of the Russian soldiers, the few remaining civilians and their invaders into Stalingrad.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Russian
Description
"What will happen if an ordinary person from the people becomes president? A new, honest, principled and, most importantly, a smart person. It was these thoughts that once prompted the people to elect a simple history teacher Vasily Goloborodko as president"--Sentrumbookstore.com.
13) Aleksandra
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Russian
Description
In a desolate, sun-sorched corner of the world, an elderly woman has come to see her beloved grandson. He is a young officer stationed at a remote military outpost. With the enemy just beyond the compound, she wanders the barracks, observing the routines of military life, before making a sudden trip into the outlying countryside.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Russian
Description
A Russian army patrol is ambushed by Caucasian rebels and two survivors are taken prisoner, by a local patriarch who is hoping to barter them for the release of his captured son. A bond of understanding develops between the soldiers and their captors, but it is broken when plans for their release go awry and a chain of violence and retaliation is precipitated.
15) 1612
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Russian
Description
After Tsar Boris Godunov and his family are brutally slaughtered, Russia decends into a country of chaos. Guided by faith and mysticism, Andrey, the only witness to the massacre, transforms himself from a servant to a cavalier and sets off on a quest to save Princess Ksenia, who is the missing daughter of Godunov. Andrey joins forces with the people's army leader, Prince Pozharski, and faces down the Polish army in an explosive battle for Moscow.
16) Sputnik
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Russian
Description
A doctor whose controversial practice has threatened her license is recruited by the military to treat a cosmonaut. Returning from space after a mysterious accident, the man has brought with him a nocturnal passenger which thrives on destruction; Tatyana wants to stop it from killing while the military wants to keep it as a secret weapon.
17) Leviathan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Russian
Description
Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma. The town's corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, and his land.
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