Strike

Strike 1925

7.30

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

1925

Khrustalyov, My Car!

Khrustalyov, My Car! 1999

6.20

Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".

1999

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family 2000

5.10

The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.

2000

Taurus

Taurus 2001

5.79

Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.

2001

Moloch

Moloch 1999

6.31

In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics.

1999

The Envy of Gods

The Envy of Gods 2000

5.09

Sonia is a television editor, she is married to successful Soviet writer Sergey and they have a son in a high school. Their life was almost perfect... until the moment they meet Bernard from France and his translator André.

2000

Temptation of B.

Temptation of B. 1990

5.50

The story of a writer who accidentally stumbles across the elixir of immortality and in doing so encounters the small group of immortals who have jealously guarded this secret for centuries. Once the writer has knowledge of this elixir, called 'Mafussalin', the group of five immortals give him a stark choice: either join them, with the price of admission, being a duel to the death between the immortal who accidentally gave the secret away or death at the hands of the group. As the writer makes up his mind, sometimes aided and at other times opposed by the ever shifting alliances from within the group, we discover how the other immortals became this way, their true ages and what they have done with this 'gift'.

1990

Reed Paradise

Reed Paradise 1989

2.00

A young man is abducted by mafia and forced to work in the underground factory.

1989

The Turn of the Century

The Turn of the Century 2001

3.00

"The Institute of Conscious Dreams" - the so-called clinic is a mysterious place. True miracles happen here. It is here, during psychedelic sessions, that a door opens into a different reality, into the depths of a person's consciousness and his genetic memory.

2001

Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib 1990

5.40

The film is based on the story of Anatoly Kurchatkin "House of Women". A tragicomedy about four women of three generations who lives in a tiny Moscow apartment: a sick grandmother, constantly requiring attention; a mother, very peculiar woman, who still hoping to somehow arrange her personal life; and two daughters, each of whom has a lot of problems.

1990

Armavir

Armavir 1991

2.00

Two men are searching for a woman between the shipwrecking accident victims.

1991

The Witches Cave

The Witches Cave 1989

5.40

An interstellar expedition is sent to study a strange planet. Despite the fact that creatures from various Earth time periods inhabit the world, the natives possess metal swords, even though they should have no knowledge of such weaponry.

1989

Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy

Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy 1998

6.80

Eisenstein shot 50 hours of footage on location in Mexico in 1931 and 32 for what would have become ¡Que viva México!, but was not able to finish the film. Following two wildly different reconstruction attempts in 1939 (Marie Seton's 'Time in the Sun') and 1979 (Grigori Alexandrov's '¡Que viva México!') Kovalov has here compiled another hypothetical version of what Eisenstein's film might have been.

1998

Made in USSR

Made in USSR 1991

5.60

An ordinary high school turns into an ordinary model of a totalitarian state. The trivial story of the mysterious theft of a VCR turns into a grotesque and gloomy farce when interim director Viktor Andreyevich, with a callous dictatorial hand, terrorises students and teachers. And now the young "patriots" punish peers-"dissidents", joining the ranks of the "pioneer-jugend." And an ordinary school laboratory turns into a place for torture...

1991

The Sneetches

The Sneetches 1989

1

No one will argue that fashion is a terrible force. But it’s bad when people follow it blindly, turning their appearance into a cult.

1989

Comedy of Lysistrata

Comedy of Lysistrata 1989

3.86

Lysistrata led the women of ancient Greece in forcing men to stop the war, that was devastating the land for 21 years. At secret assembly of the women delegates from both sides of the conflict, Lysistrata declared: "We must refrain from the male altogether - till the men come to terms of peace". Her instruction to every wife or mistress was to refuse all sexual favors whatsoever, and sit prettily dressed in best transparent silks, till the men yield to peace.

1989

The Dark Night

The Dark Night 2001

4.20

Mixture of documentary and fiction about the dictatorial 1930s, loosely based on the utopian fantasies of Fritz Lang and about the forbidden passionate love affair between a photographer and his model.

2001

You Can't Live Like That

You Can't Live Like That 1990

3.00

A film about the sociopolitical condition of the Soviet society at the end of the eighties.

1990