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1) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 397
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Russian
Description
A twelve-year-old boy acts as a spy for the Russians during the Second World War to avenge his parents' deaths.
3) 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
[2013]
Language
Russian
Description
Produced by the Soviet Union, the film records the Red Army field units and the Red Banner Baltic Fleet units in their 1939-40 Winter War campaign against the White Finnish Guard. The film visually depicts the much vaunted Mannerheim Line in all its actual emplacements, as seen but two weeks after their capture, and as filmed by Red Army combat photographers onsite. Shows these fortifications in great detail, augmented by animated maps.
5) 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.
6) Tangerines
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Russian
Description
The story of awakening humanity in the midst of violence. Nominated for an Academy Award as well as a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film in 2015. An older Estonian man cares for two wounded soldiers from opposite sides of the 1990s-era war in Georgia.
7) 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.
8) 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.
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