Russian Cinema & Culture

Commissar

Commissar

At last on DVD - Aleksandr Askoldov's Commissar assumes its overdue place as a milestone of characte...

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Dead Man's Bluff

A Molotov cocktail of gruesome carnage, eccentric characters, and off-beat humor, Dead Man's Bluff ...

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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 wo...

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Battleship Potemkin

For eight decades, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece has remained the most influential silent fil...

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Ashik Kerib (remastered)

From Sergei Paradjanov, one of the most acclaimed and experimental directors of the Soviet cinema, c...

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Russian Ark

Russian Ark is shot from the point-of-view of an unseen narrator, as he explores the museum and trav...

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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...

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Mother and Son

In this painterly chamber drama, Sokurov brings time to a near standstill to reveal a tale of love, ...

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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 ...

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The Return

In this hauntingly beautiful drama two brothers lives are forever changed when the father who abando...

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The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD is the timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family to...

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Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice

Tarkovsky's haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. Made as he was dying of...

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The Rider Named Death

Steely, elegant Georges (Andrei Panin) leads a DIY underground death squad carrying out fanatical at...

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The Second Circle

Returning to the marriage of minimalism and sense of deep bereavement he is known for, Sokurov prese...

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Harvest Time

Winner of a Golden Plaque award at the Chicago International Film Festival "for its complex and poet...

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The Vanished Empire

Emotionally acute, grittily realistic, and surprisingly lyrical, THE VANISHED EMPIRE is a "wise, ele...

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Que Viva Mexico!

Eisenstein's epic celebration of Mexico's history and people was never completed due to financial pr...

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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 peopl...

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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 ...

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