Russia

Battleship Potemkin

SERGEI EISENSTEIN'S BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN with THE Original Meisel Orchestral Score Odessa - 1905....

Beanpole

In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha (astonishing newcomers Viktoria Miroshnichenko and...

Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake

No ballet has such deathless appeal as Swan Lake, a haunting fable of a young man’s nai?vete?...

Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker speaks to the child in everyone, with its happy dreams of snow, presents,...

Bullet Collector

Bullet Collector is the powerful debut of Russian director Alexander Vartanov. A unique and...

The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom

Exploding the myth that the Soviet silent cinema was limited to political propaganda, Yuri...

The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom

A delightful and boisterous comedy satirizing Soviet life and the making of movies in the 1920's....

Citizen K

Oscar®-winning writer/director Alex Gibney’s revelatory Citizen Kis an intimate yet...

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 3: Starewicz’s Fantasies

This collection includes examples of the three main strands of directors Ladislas Starevich's early...

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 7: Evgeni Bauer

These three films by the magnificent and macabre Evgeni Bauer reveal the distinctive eroticism and...

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 1 and 2: Beginnings/Folklore and Legend

Early Russian Cinema, Volume 1: Beginnings Sten’ka Razin (1908) has the distinction of being...

Faust (Alexander Sokurov)

From acclaimed director Alexander Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK, THE SUN), FAUST is an hallucinatory period...

Hard to be a God

When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final...

Mad Love: The Films of Evgeni Bauer

Cinematic poet Evgeni Bauer combined the technical virtuosity of D.W. Griffith with the terror of...

Man With A Movie Camera

One of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era, Dziga Vertov’s Man With A...

Mantra: Sounds Into Silence

A feature-length documentary, exploring the growing musical and social phenomenon of...

Mother and Son

A miracle of sound, light and characterization, Mother and Son achieves a pinnacle of film...

Nostalghia

Andrei Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word “nostalghia” conveys “the...

Persian Lessons

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) is arrested by SS soldiers alongside...

Poisoned by Polonium

"If anything should happen to me, I beg you to show this tape to the whole world." On...

Putin's Kiss

Putin's Kiss portrays contemporary life in Russia through the coming-of-age story of Masha, a...

Russian Ark

Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (THE SUN) broke boundaries with his dreamlike vision of the...

The Second Circle

In the 1990 film The Second Circle, Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov (Russian Ark, Mother and...

Strike

The first feature film by the director of Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein’s STRIKE is...

The Sun

Alexander Sokurov continues his brilliant investigation into the lives of dictators with the...

Sunrise/Sunset

The daily life of the Dalai Lama is brought home with remarkable intimacy in SUNRISE/SUNSET....

Winter Evening in Gagry

Winter Evening in Gagry is an effervescent musical that lovingly looks back at the history of a...

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