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Dead Man's Bluff
A Molotov cocktail of gruesome carnage, eccentric characters, and
off-beat humor, Dead Man's Bluff casts a bracingly cynical eye on recent
Eastern European history. |
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Stalker
One of Andrei Tarkovsky’s (Solaris, The Sacrifice) most acclaimed films, Stalker is an unforgettable film experience that evokes the spiritual lucidity of Carl Dreyer and the unbridled imagination of Phillip K. Dick. Since its release in 1979, Stalker has inspired filmmakers as diverse as David Lynch and Steven Spielberg and ensnared audiences in a labyrinth of striking imagery revealing the familiar in the strange, the poetic in the disturbing and the mythic in the mordant.
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Siberiade
An epic chronicling six decades of 20th century Russia through the experiences of three generations in a Siberian hamlet. |
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Harvest Time
Winner of a Golden Plaque award at the Chicago International Film Festival "for its complex and poetic evocation of an ambiguous period in Soviet history," Marina Razbezhkina's debut film Harvest Time is a beautiful portrait of a woman living in a small Russian village after World War II. "HARVEST TIME depicts rural Russia as both brutal and astonishingly beautiful." - Telluride Film Festival Catalogue |
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Commissar
At last on DVD - Aleksandr Askoldov's Commissar assumes its overdue place as a milestone of character-driven, visually poetic world cinema. |
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Battleship Potemkin
For eight decades, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece has remained the most influential silent film of all time. Yet each successive generation has seen BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN subjected to censorship and recutting, its unforgettable power diluted in unauthorized public domain editions from dubious sources. Until now. |
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Ashik Kerib (remastered)
From Sergei Paradjanov, one of the most acclaimed and experimental directors of the Soviet cinema, comes Ashik Kerib, a 19th century romantic tale evocatively brought to life. |
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Poisoned by Polonium
The Litvinenko File exposes the truth behind a crime that shocked the world and provoked a war of words between Russia and England that continues to this day. |
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The Vanished Empire
Emotionally acute, grittily realistic, and surprisingly lyrical, THE VANISHED EMPIRE is a "wise, elegiac film" (The New York Times) that depicts a teenage boy's stumbling journey into adulthood from the streets of early 70's Soviet Moscow, to a lost city in the timeless Uzbekistan desert, to a post-communist Russian future that seemed impossible during the height of the cold war. |
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Battleship Potemkin (Blu-ray)
All new restoration - Sergei Eisenstein's BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN with the original Meisel Orchestral Score. |
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Oblomov
Based upon the classic novel by Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov follows the travails of I. I. Oblomov, a good-natured and indolent elite landowner with the mind of a reasonable man and the ambition of a giant slug. |
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Five Evenings
During a brief visit to late 50’s Moscow, Alexander Volodin rings the bell at a
threshold he hasn’t crossed since before the war. Wistful nostalgia collides with kitchen-sink reality when the dawning love Alexander left behind 17 years before, answers
the door. Reunited, the couple struggles to rekindle a still gestating romance with
neither the mature bond of trust nor the blind hope of youth to guide them. |
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Without Witness
While watching TV at home alone, a woman receives a visit from her now remarried ex-husband. But as banalities about old friends, old times, and their absent teenage son give way to increasingly confrontational verbal barbs, the threadbare camouflage of hospitality and cheap nostalgia masking the couple's raw wounds and harsh agendas is ripped away. |
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A Slave of Love
While awaiting the arrival of her
missing co-star husband on the set of a Russian film, silent film diva Olga becomes enmeshed in a romance with handsome young cameraman Pototsky. But what begins as a casual dalliance becomes an awakening as Olga’s lover reveals his true allegiance. |
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The Second Circle
Returning to the marriage of minimalism and sense of deep bereavement he is known for, Sokurov presents an unforgettable drama of filial regret. As a son grapples with his father's threadbare last rites, the mundane details of loss are elevated to a level of poetic dignity -- in a manner that has reminded many of Tarkovsky at his most profound. |
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Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
From Elem Klimov (COME AND SEE), comes the story of Grigory Rasputin, the wandering Siberian monk whose messianic influence upon Russia's monarch led its people, like lambs to the slaughter, blind and headlong into World War I and revolution. |
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The Rider Named Death
Steely, elegant Georges (Andrei Panin) leads a DIY underground death squad carrying out fanatical attacks on Russia's fragile Czarist regime. Visit product page to see trailer! |
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Brother
Set in contemporary St. Petersburg, Alexei Balabanov's Brother is an American-style gangster flick mixed with pointed social consciousness. As Daniiella, the principal young contract killer, Sergei Bodrov Jr. gives a star-making performance. |
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Come And See
A crowning achievement of the 1980�s Soviet Cinema revived in 2001 to great acclaim. COME AND SEE is perhaps the ultimate WWII film. With haunting imagery, this stark testimonial to the madness of grief of war recounts the nightmarish journeys of an adolescent boy during the Nazi occupation of Byelorussia. |
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Man With A Movie Camera
This dawn-to-dusk view of the Soviet Union offers a montage of urban Russian life, showing the people of the city at work and at play Considered one of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era. USSR. 1929. 68min. B&W. |
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The Mirror
Nostalgic visions of the director's childhood combine with stunning slow motion dream sequences and stark WWII newsreels to form a complex, poetic, and personal view of his own life and hardships. |
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Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
A wonderful and insightful romantic comedy, MOSCOW DOES NOT BELIEVE IN TEARS is a charming story of three country girls who move to the city in search of happiness. |
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Oblomov
Based upon the classic novel by Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov follows the travails of I. I. Oblomov, a good-natured and indolent elite landowner with the mind of a reasonable man and the ambition of a giant slug. Masterfully directed, the picture won the Best Foreign Film award from the National Board of Review. Digitally Remastered. |
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Que Viva Mexico!
Eisenstein's epic celebration of Mexico's history and people was never completed due to financial problems. Fifty years after its initial production, this great work was faithfully assembled by the master director's editor, 80-year old Grigory Alexandrov. Digitally remastered edition. |
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Tchaikovsky
Unlike the Hollywood biographies of the great composer's life, director Igor Talankin avoids the sentimentality and cliché creating a distinctive clarity and freshness of perspective. Emphasis is placed upon two of Tchaikovsky's important relationships and their impact upon his professional and emotional life. See and hear Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Eugin Onigin and more. |
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The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD is the timeless story of an aristocratic
Russian family torn apart by buried secrets and changing times. Stars Alan Bates and
Charlotte Rampling.
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The Return
In this hauntingly beautiful drama two brothers lives are forever changed when the father who abandoned them suddenly reappears. |
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Moloch
In an ominous fortress perched high above the clouds, everything seems in order for a reposing 24 hour retreat. It is the spring of 1942 and Eva Braun is the only voice that dares to contradict the Fuhrer. |
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