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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1979) - DVD Region 1
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Synopsis (From Amazon) : This is the tale of three Russian women who are very close friends and the paths they took in life. It spans over 20 years.
The story could happen in almost any large city in the world, but it is an added touch that it takes place in Moscow during the Communist rule.
One gets an interesting insight into life there at that time.
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Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998) - DVD Region 1
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Language: Russian (Subtitles: English, Russian)
Synopsis (From Amazon): The Russian male's two greatest loves, fishing and vodka, get tested to the breaking point in this rollicking comedy about best friends
whose vacation goes hilarious awry. General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova lose their way on a fishing trip and wind up in
Finland, where they decide to have a good time anyway but end up leaving their vodka and fishing equipment behind. Naturally, something drastic
must be done to prevent certain disaster
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House of Fools (2002) - DVD Region 1
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Synopsis (From Amazon): It takes place during the Russian-Chechen war, but House of Fools has the aura of the 1960s about it, specifically the anti-war picture of the King of Hearts variety. Set in a mental hospital near the front lines, the movie poses the age-old question: what happens when the inmates take over the asylum? The doctors have fled from the fighting, so the patients create their own society. Julia Vysotsky, a livewire actress, plays the central role, a blissfully unbalanced woman convinced she is the girlfriend of the singer Bryan Adams (and, game for the challenge, Adams plays himself, endlessly crooning his hit "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman"). Director Andrei Konchalovsky (Runaway Train) finds suspense here, and also absurdity, but it's hard to see what the film adds to the roster of "war is hell" movies. The conflict in Chechnya deserves attention, but Konchalovsky overstates his case.
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Solaris - Criterion Collection (1972) - DVD Region 1
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Synopsis (From Amazon): The Russian answer to 2001, and very nearly as memorable a movie. The legendary Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky made this extremely deliberate science-fiction epic, an adaptation of a novel by Stanislaw Lem. The story follows a cosmonaut (Donatas Banionis) on an eerie trip to a planet where haunting memories can take physical form. Its bare outline makes it sound like a routine space-flight picture, an elongated Twilight Zone episode; but the further into its mysteries we travel, the less familiar anything seems. Even though Tarkovsky's meanings and methods are sometimes mystifying, Solaris has a way of crawling inside your head, especially given the slow pace and general lack of forward momentum. By the time the final images cross the screen, Tarkovsky has gone way beyond SF conventions into a moving, unsettling vision of memory and home. Well worthy of cult status, Solaris is both challenging art-house fare and a whacked-out head trip.
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War and Peace (1956) - DVD Region 1
Review : A nice, but short (compared to the book), adaptation of Tolsty's epic. Great cast.
Language: English.
Synopsis : A simple adaptation of possibly the greatest book ever written. Not overly faithful to the book, but a good film all the same.
I guess the book is just too large to adapt to a movie-length film.
This movie takes place during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812.
(This is the English version. You can find Russian versions by following links under "More Russian Movies" below)
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Herbert Lom, Vittorrio Gassman, Anita Ekberg, Jeremy Britt, Helmut Dantine, Oskar Homolka.
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Russian Ark (2002) - DVD Region 1
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Language: Russian (Subtitles: English)
Synopsis (From Amazon): An unusual tour of the Hermitage. Russian master Alexander Sokurov has tapped into the very flow of history itself for this flabbergasting film.
Thanks to the miracles of digital video, Sokurov (and cinematographer Tilman Buttner) uses a single, unbroken, 90-minute shot to wind his way through the
Hermitage in St. Petersburg--the repository of Russian art and the former home to royalty. Gliding through time, we glimpse Catherine II, modern-day
museumgoers, and the doomed family of Nicholas II. History collapses on itself, as the opulence of the past and the horrors of the 20th century collide,
and each door that opens onto yet another breathtaking gallery is another century to be heard from. The movie climaxes with a grand ball and thousands of
extras, prompting thoughts of just how crazy Sokurov had to be to try a technical challenge like this--and how far a distance we've traveled, both physically
and spiritually, since the movie began
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