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PlaceRússia
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Chaika
2012
A love story between a prostitute and a loser sailor, rebuilt between two seasons: the eternal winter of Siberia and the summer in the dusty steppes of Kazakhstan. Young Tursyn comes back home to face what remains of his family: an old nomad about to die and a shipwrecked father. Both of them will...
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Lucky Devils
2013
In the city of St. Petersburg, 8,500 children live on the streets. But the innovative circus Upsala with its charismatic director Larissa is giving some of those children a chance to leave all that behind them. A journey from the Russian slums to the lights of the big top and the joys of a tour to...
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A Long And Happy Life
2013
Sascha lives in a village in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and also tolerate his more or less clandestine love-affair with Anya, a secretary at the local government office. But then Sascha is...
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Letter
2013
A psychiatric institution in an old wooden house in a deserted Russian village. Modern civilization has passed the place and patients by.
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The Girl and Death
2012
Around the turn of the twentieth century, young Nicolai is travelling from Moscow to Paris to study medicine and learn to speak French. On the way, he stops at a hotel, also serving as a brothel and sanatorium, near Leipzig. There, he meets the beautiful courtesan Elise and falls deeply in love...
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Waiting For The Sea
2012
Captain Marat is rather lucky and successful: he has a young beautiful wife, a high-speed seiner, an amicable crew. But once he finds himself in a storm and loses everything. Having been to prison for several years after his ship and crew perished, Marat returns to the small town and decides to...
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Farewell
1983
Uma ilha-vilarejo está prestes a ser alagada e transformada em reservatório. Para a família Pinegin, esse é um momento conflituoso. A avó Darja quer ser enterrada na terra onde nasceu, recusando-se, assim como suas amigas, a sair do local. Por outro lado, seu filho Pavel caminha contra todas...
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The Guard
1989
Guardas militares a serviço do Ministério do Interior vigiam um trem de prisioneiros. Os guardas são substituídos em cada estação e obedecem a uma rígida hierarquia. Pressionados, sentem-se frustrados e agem agressivamente. A tortura e a humilhação tornam-se insuportáveis.
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The Railway
2008
Two friends (a school principal Parentsov and a truck driver who is referred to as Father) steal a large amount of coal and take it by an old abandoned rail into the vast borderless steppe where they want to sell it. Driver’s numb son Misha and a strange and formidable being, Engine Driver,...
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A Gaiola Dos Canários
1985
Alessia e Victor não são mais crianças, são adolescentes, vivendo a difícil fase de passagem da juventude para a vida adulta. Levado pela influência negativa de alguns amigos, ele rouba uma gaiola com canários, o que o obriga a fugir para Moscou. Na estação de trem, conhece Alessia, uma...
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The Island
2006
Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives a very unusual man. His fellow-monks are confused by his bizarre conduct. Those who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future. However, he considers himself unworthy...
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The Legend of Suram Fortress
1984
The legend that gives the movie title was taken from the history of Georgia, south of the Caucasus. Preparing to defend their homeland against foreign invaders, the locals build a fortress, but each time the walls reach the height of the roof, they collapse. The revelation of a dowser indicates the...
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The Stone
1992
The narrative centers on a meeting between a young guard from the Chekhov museum and Chekhov himself, once more in the land of the living after a long absence - only he is incarnate in several roles at one and the same time, at times as a doctor, a step-father to the boy, or as lover. This is also...
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Little Vera
1988
O filme que agitou os soviéticos e levou multidões aos cinemas é uma exposição cristalina sobre sexo, droga, ócio, desordem, rock e insolência. A produção invadiu com impacto o mercado americano e dividiu opiniões entre alas conservadoras e progressistas na URSS. Começava a era do...
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The Kite
2003
Life seems stagnated in a provincial town in Russia in the early nineties, and immune to the outcome of the fall of the communist regime. Victor Solovjov, a middle-aged father of a family, keeps to a routine in the police station and in the town prison where he works. At home, he is in constant...
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The Last Station
2009
After almost a 50-year wedding with Leon Tolstoy, countess Sofia sees her world turning upside down when her husband, under the influence of his assistant, Chertkov, decides to leave his legacy to the Russian people. In the middle of this minefield is Valentin, the new and naive Tolstoy’...
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The Rowan Waltz
2010
In Russia, after the end of World War II, many 16 to 18 year old girls were sent to the fields of northern country to clear mines left after the Nazi invasion. Marusya is a promising artist. Polina is a young widow learning to live without her beloved. But the destiny prepared for each girl her own...
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The Lonely Voice of Man
1978
Filmed in 1978, but banned until 1987, Sokúrov’ first feature was based on the book by Soviet writer Andrej Platonov, himself an artist under censorship in the country. The narrative is set in the twenties, during the post-revolution years, and focuses on Mikita, a solitary man much traumatized...
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Alexandra
2007
Sokurov’ new film is a characteristically elemental tale of a grandmother visiting her grandson, a Russian army captain posted in Chechnya. However, as one might expect from a director with metaphysical tendencies, Sokurov’ subject is not only Chechnya but every war, and he ruminates on the...
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Silent Souls
2010
When Miron’ beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merja culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero, a picturesque region in West-Central Russia. Although the Merja people assimilated in the 17th...
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Antikiller
2002
The film is set in a city, somewhere in Russia, devastated by organized crime and by post-perestroika capitalist savagery. Major Korenev who was imprisoned for years, returns to his city. A former policeman, he finds himself in the epicenter of a fight between rival gangs. AntiKiller is based on...
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Arabesques Pirosmani
1985
Documentary about Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918), a late 19th and early 20th century Georgian naif painter.
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Asya
1978
A dramatic work, based on the novella by Ivan Turgenev, whose nihilistic density comes from the writer`s own love experience with the singer Pauline Garcia, the wife of a friend of his. In the film, the unbridled passion falls upon a mysterious teenager, a starting point for deep reflections on the...
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Attraction
Certos animais escalam as montanhas até chegar ao topo, lembrando o árduo trabalho de Sysiphe. O caminho é difícil e cheio de surpresas. Seu objetivo é ilusório. Assim que chegam lá em cima, eles se jogam no vazio para experimentar a sensação de voar. Outros animais não escalam montanha...