The grim rule of Ivan the Terrible and his stranglehold over religion and politics sets the stage for this historical drama...
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2009
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The true story of one of Russia's most tyrannical leaders is given a new screen adaptation in this historical drama from...
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Philip
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2009
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2002
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Husband and wife Viorica Mesina and Sergiu Prodan make their directorial debut with Bed of Procust, a romantic drama based on...
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2002
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In this historical drama with music, a gifted singer (Oleg Yankovsky) from a Jewish village in Russia travels to the United...
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2001
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1996
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1995
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1995
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1995
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A mute American working on a low-budget movie runs afoul of the Russian mafia in this internationally produced thriller....
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Larsen
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1994
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Writer/director Yolande Zauberman's touching tale of the friendship between two boys, one Jewish and the other Catholic, in...
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1993
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Junya Sato directs this historical epic about an Japanese sailor shipwrecked in Russia. Set during the Edo period (1600-1868,...
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1992
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Malcolm McDowell, with shock-white hair and a death-mask visage, delivers a powerful and intense performance in this...
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Nicholas II,Smirnov
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1991
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1991
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In this picaresque comedy, a Georgian boy with a Jewish stepbrother gets involved in an emigration mixup. Things are rough in...
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1990
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Dorothy Segda essays three roles in the Hungarian-made My 20th Century. The film begins with the birth of twin girls to a...
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1989
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1989
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In this gentle comedy, Mado (Marianne Groves) is the letter-carrier for her small town, and she is constantly on the lookout...
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Jean-Marie
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1989
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The original title of the German-Russian coproduction To Kill a Dragon was Ubit Drakona. The "dragons" slain during the...
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1988
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This dramatic tragedy is taken from the short story by Leo Tolstoy. Vasili (Oleg Yankovsky) recalls his past love affair and...
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Vasili Pozdnyshev
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1987
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The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. Liosha (Oleg Yankovsky)...
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Liosha Dmitriev
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1986
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Nostalghia is Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's enigmatic work about a writer (Oleg Yankovsky) who, trapped by his fame and...
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Andrei Gorchakov
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1983
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Director Sergei Mikaelyan, known for his 1974 release Premium, takes a look this time at how romance can blossom between the...
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Oleg
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1983
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1983
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1983
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Sergei Makarov's (Oleg Yankovsky) behavior is the focus of this seriocomedy about a man who is in no way aggressive or...
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Sergei Makarov
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1983
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1981
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1981
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1981
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1979
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1978
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Adapted from a fairy tale by Yevgeny Shvarts, this story is about a magician (Oleg Yankovsky) who is concerned because his...
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The Magician
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1978
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1978
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The moral consequences of character are the perennial focus for this film's director Ilia Averbakh, who trained and worked as...
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1977
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1977
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No relation to the 1985 British film of the same name, the Russian The Shooting Party was based on an Anton Chekhov story....
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1977
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This comic melodrama follows a gentle, simple and sweet woman, played by Natalia Gundareva, as she seeks to live a decent...
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1977
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Because of many good deeds the Finns did for Lenin prior to the Russian Revolution, their persistent desire for independence...
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1976
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Near the close of the Russian Civil War, in 1923, a young man begins studying journalism at a worker newspaper and has a...
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1976
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The parallel tribulations of two women are the theme of this drama. After suffering horribly from the actions of her...
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1976
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1976
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1976
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In this officially recognized film, which won the State Prize of the Soviet Union, the inadequacies of the Soviet system are...
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1975
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1975
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1975
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1972
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1971
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1970
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1970
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1969
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1969
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Set during the Russian Civil War of the 1920s, Two Comrades Were Serving follows two soldiers, one of whom was formerly a...
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1968
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Heinrich Schwarzkopf
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1967
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