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1) Beanpole
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (137 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha (astonishing newcomers Viktoria Miroshnichenko and Vasilisa Perelygina), intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjust to a haunted world. As the film begins, Iya, long and slender and towering over everyone—hence the film’s title—works as a nurse in a shell-shocked hospital, presiding over traumatized soldiers. A shocking accident brings them closer...
2) Sobibor
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (117 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
A war drama based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII and focuses on Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW in SOBIBOR, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Many of the escapees were later caught and died - the rest led by Pechersky managed to join the partisans. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
The year is 1989. In an era of Palestinian demands for independence, the State of Israel sends young soldiers to oversee the Arab population in the Occupied Territories. After one of them is killed, the common fate of four young soldiers and one Palestinian family is sealed. The film describes the extraordinary journey of a young soldier trying to find his place in the chaos surrounding him. Winner of the C.I.C.A.E. Award at the Berlin International...
4) 1944
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
The year is 1944. As the Battle of Tannenberg Line rages, Estonia finds itself helplessly trapped in the crossfire of two opposing forces. With the Red Army on the offensive, the severely outnumbered SS dig in to repel the Soviet advance on the Third Reich. Half of their infantry are back to their homeland wearing enemy uniforms. Forced to fight against their own brothers, these desperate young men now must find a way to survive one of the bloodiest...
5) 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
Criterion collection volume 397
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
A twelve-year-old boy acts as a spy for the Russians during the Second World War to avenge his parents' deaths.
7) Stalingrad
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
An epic look at the battle that turned the tide of World War II. A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there. The scale of the battle contrasts dramatically with the human drama of the Russian soldiers, the few remaining civilians and their invaders into Stalingrad.
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.
9) Aleksandra
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
In a desolate, sun-sorched corner of the world, an elderly woman has come to see her beloved grandson. He is a young officer stationed at a remote military outpost. With the enemy just beyond the compound, she wanders the barracks, observing the routines of military life, before making a sudden trip into the outlying countryside.
10) Tangerines
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
The story of awakening humanity in the midst of violence. Nominated for an Academy Award as well as a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film in 2015. An older Estonian man cares for two wounded soldiers from opposite sides of the 1990s-era war in Georgia.
11) 12
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Set in contemporary Moscow where 12 men must decide the fate of a young man accused of murdering his step-father. Consigned to a makeshift jury room, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.
12) 1612
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
After Tsar Boris Godunov and his family are brutally slaughtered, Russia decends into a country of chaos. Guided by faith and mysticism, Andrey, the only witness to the massacre, transforms himself from a servant to a cavalier and sets off on a quest to save Princess Ksenia, who is the missing daughter of Godunov. Andrey joins forces with the people's army leader, Prince Pozharski, and faces down the Polish army in an explosive battle for Moscow.
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