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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1988.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
An examination of the life and work of revered Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, this film draws heavily on footage taken on the set of his final production, *The Sacrifice*. Featuring interviews with the filmmaker, the documentary looks at Tarkovsky's meticulous creative process and uncompromising vision. The production also addresses his untimely death and includes anecdotes from his widow, which shed more light on Tarkovsky's dedication to his...
2) Francofonia
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
Alexander Sokurov’s portrait of the real-life collaboration that saved the Louvre Museum under the Nazi Occupation, a stunning and urgently relevant meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and history. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Winner of the Fedora Award for Best Euro-Mediterranean Film and the Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award and nominated for the Golden Lion at the **Venice Film Festival**....
Author
Language
Russian
Description
This book by the Russian-language American journalist Alexei Orlov follows events of the 1830s through the subsequent centuries of American history. Between 1840 and 1960, all American presidents elected in years that are multiples of 20 were, cursed by the Indian Chief Tecumseh and died in office, either of natural causes or by assassination. Orlov's book discusses the tragic lives of these presidents, from William Henry Harrison, elected in 1840,...
4) Podstrochnik
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (409 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
Lilianna Lungina, a revered Russian translator, analyzes the major events of 20th century Russia through the prism of her own life. Oleg Dorman's brilliant film, which became a sensation when finally released over 4 nights on Russian television in 2009, is at once heartfelt and unsentimental―an unparalleled tribute to a lost world.
6) Spacewalk
Author
Language
Russian
Description
1963. In the heat of the Cold War, the USSR launch the ambitious mission of completing mankind's first walk in outer space.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 133 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
At the beginning of glorious days is the second part of a two-part film that started with The youth of Peter the Great. Both parts were released in the Soviet Union in 1980 and are based on a novel, Peter I, written by Aleksey Tolstoy. The film was directed by Russian director Sergey Gerasimov. The movie is considered to be a classic of Russian historical cinema. With no access to the sea, Russia suffers great losses in foreign trade. Peter tries...
8) After Leto
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (48 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
Kirill Serebrennikov's "AFTER LETO" tells the story of the epoch in which the characters of his feature film, "Leto", lived. Interviews with Natalia Naumenko, Artemy Troitsky, Igor Petrovsky, Seva Novgorodtsev and Andrei Tropillo delve into the Russian rock scene of the 80's, Soviet youth and the spirit of that time, allowing us to look behind the scenes of Russian culture during this era of Victor Tsoi and Mike Naumenko. The film's narration is laid...
9) Poetics
Author
Language
Russian
Description
The work "poetics" was created by Classical Greek polymath, known as the founder of classical logic, Aristotle (384-322 BC). Aristotle is the greatest of philosophers of the ancient world, whose authority was unshakeable in the Middle Ages too, when the church rejected all heritage of ancient Greece as a pagan one. In his philosophical conception there already were many elements of materialism.
10) Hipsters
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 125 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
Moscow 1955. Stalin has been dead two years, but not even Khrushchev's thaw can prevent Komsomol shock troops from hounding hipsters (stilyagi), fans of American jazz, culture and fashion. The student Mels, a Komsomol member, meets Polya, a hipster, while conducting a raid on a hipster hangout. Mels falls in love with Polya while his Communist comrade harbors romantic feelings for him. Mels ingratiates himself into Polya's group of hipsters who meet...
Author
Language
Russian
Description
In 1927, before the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the United Left Opposition, in accordance with the party's charter, tried to state in detail its position and proposals for correcting the policy of building a socialist society. However, it failed to publish its platform, and the opposition was condemned only on the basis of indiscriminate accusations. This document ("Statement of the Thirteen", or "Draft Platform of...
Publisher
Distributed by International Historic Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sd.; black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Produced by the Soviet Union, the film records the Red Army field units and the Red Banner Baltic Fleet units in their 1939-40 Winter War campaign against the White Finnish Guard. The film visually depicts the much vaunted Mannerheim Line in all its actual emplacements, as seen but two weeks after their capture, and as filmed by Red Army combat photographers onsite. Shows these fortifications in great detail, augmented by animated maps.
13) Come and see
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
An innocent young farm lad goes off to join the partisans fighting the Nazis and comes to experience, if not understand, the horrors of war.
14) Strike
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Mark the most outstanding cinematic debuts in the history of film. Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner, and Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most harrowing and powerful sequences, the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation....
15) 9th company
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen; Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Based on a true story of the 9th company during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s. Young Soviet Army recruits are sent from boot camp directly into the war in Afghanistan. Real war is not like boot camp at all. This inexperienced company is sent to defend a difficult position, a task which may be beyond their capabilities.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
A Russian army patrol is ambushed by Caucasian rebels and two survivors are taken prisoner, by a local patriarch who is hoping to barter them for the release of his captured son. A bond of understanding develops between the soldiers and their captors, but it is broken when plans for their release go awry and a chain of violence and retaliation is precipitated.
Publisher
Studii︠a︡ "Kvartal-95"
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
"What will happen if an ordinary person from the people becomes president? A new, honest, principled and, most importantly, a smart person. It was these thoughts that once prompted the people to elect a simple history teacher Vasily Goloborodko as president"--Sentrumbookstore.com.
Series
Criterion collection volume 34
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2018.
Edition
Three-DVD special widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (183 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 12 cm
Language
Russian
Description
Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, Andrei Tarkovsky's second feature conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. The film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes, gradually emerging as a man struggling to preserve his creative and religious integrity.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Documentary about the Blockade of Leningrad during World War II. The film presents an emotional picture of the struggle of some survivors, whose personal memories tend to be overshadowed by the heroic myth held up by the authorities. That myth is in painful contrast with the horrific truth they were forbidden to mention all these years.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (405 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
A painstakingly detailed adaptation of the Tolstoy novel which follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats from 1805 to 1812, including Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
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