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Director: Igor Mozzhukhin Writer: Igor Mozzhukhin Stars: Maxim Yemelyanov, Aleksey Guskov, Mikhail Porechenkov This film has been labeled a Russian “Home Alone”, and on one level provides similar entertainment, but the cultural subtext is a very rich one. Its intent is far more serious social commentary than in a typical American comedy — something that [...]

Director: Vera StorozhevaWriter: Natalya NazarovaStars: Artur Smolyaninov, Anna Starshenbaum,Sergey Puskepalis Official site. Russian Film

Director, Scriptwriter: Ekaterina Grokhovskaia Cast: Marina Golub, Andrei Kharitonov, Ol’ga Khokhlova, Sergei Krapiva, Irina Kupchenko, Elena Levkovich, Natal’ia Naumova, Roman Pakhomov, Natal’ia Rudova , Oleg Sukachenko In the months before its release, fans anticipated that Katia Grokhovskaia’s Devil’s Flower would be the Russian answer to the Twilight saga. Looking at the two films’ promotional materials, [...]

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky Writer: Yuri Klepikov Stars: Iya Savvina, Lyubov Sokolova,Aleksandr Sirin Director Andrei Konchalovsky won the Nika Award for best director for this black-and-white movie. This early film is still considered by many to be among this long-lived and fruitful director’s most significant work. Konchalovskii used nonprofessional actors for all but the two lead [...]

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov Writers: Yuri Arabov, Jeremy Noble Stars: Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson,Kaori Momoi Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov’s tetrology, following Molokh and Taurus, focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan’s defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by Gen. Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival. [...]

Director: Bakur Bakuradze Writers: Bakur Bakuradze (screenplay), Ilya Malakhova Stars: Gera Avdochenok, Mikhail Barskovich, Vladimir Degilev Farmer Ivan Dunaev gets up early. He feeds his piglets, does paperwork, fixes the tractor, and weighs the meat he’ll take in his old pickup truck to the market to sell. He has a wife, a teenage daughter, and [...]

Russia’s “Kinotavr” film festival wound up in the Balck Sea resort city of Sochi on Saturday. Its Grand Prix went to an Oleg Flyangolts film “Bezrazlichie” (Indifference). The film tells about social problems of the Moscow youth in the 1960s. It took the director 20 years to finish the film. Director: Oleg Flyangolts. Cast: Fyodor [...]

Moscow, I Love You, Russia, 2010 Color, 110 minutes (18 short films), 100 minutes (15 short films) Directors: Aleksandr Kasatkin “Mosca ti amo”, Artem Mikhalkov “Job”, Andrei Razenkov “He and She” (On i ona), Ėlina Suni “Barada / Unpleasant situation” (Barada / Nepriiatnaia situatsiia), Ekaterina Kalinina “A Midsummer Night’s Smile” (Ulybka letnei nochi), Ivan Okhlobystin [...]

Director: Nikolai DreidenScriptwriter: Nikolai DreidenCast: Aleksei Morozov, Emiliia Spivak, Mariia Reznik, Tapani Perttu, Aleksandr Bargman, Artur Vakha, Vitalii Kovalenko, Dmitrii Lysenkov, Vladimir Matveev, Khel’ga Fillippova, Vitas Eizenakh, Oleg Riazantsev Awards iploma Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Russia, 2008First prize Film Festival : “Luchezarnyy angel”, Russia, 2008First prize Historical Film Festival, Russia, 2008 Since its [...]

Director: Nikita MIKHALKOV Writer: Nikita MIKHALKOV Cast: Dmitry DYUZHEV, Nadezhda MIKHALKOVA, Nikita MIKHALKOV, Oleg MENSHIKOV Russian Film