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1) Stalingrad
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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.
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'The Puppet Show”, is a wok by the classic author of Russian literature of the XX century, one of the greatest Russian poets A. A. Blok (1880-1921). This small lyric drama was, written by the author in the style of Symbolism. The content and the form of the play, are obscure and fragile. Instead of the real events, there are impressions and symbols, instead of real life, fabulous, invented world, instead of real people, puppet masks.
3) Paradise
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Olga is a beautiful Russian countess and member of the French Resistance; Jules is a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned to investigate her case; and Helmut is a handsome, high-ranking, yet naïve German SS officer who once fell madly in love with Olga and meets her again when she is shipped to a concentration camp. While they recount their stories, PARADISE between the bloody end of World War II and the gilded, halcyon days when their destinies...
4) The Student
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Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.
5) The Pencil
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Antonina, an artist, follows her husband, to the north of Russia. As she starts teaching art in a school, she finds herself opposed by a boy whose brother is a gang leader.
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Sophia volume 7
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Russian
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Ivan begins to suspect that his wife is cheating on him. Sophia denies treason, but the Prince decides to lock her up and forbids her to see her son. At this time, Ivan the Young learns that his wife believes in heresy, Elena and her companions in fear, and decide to poison the prince.
7) The Fencer
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Fleeing police, an Estonian fencer finds work as a teacher and introduces his students to the sport. The children now wish to compete in a national tournament, forcing him to choose between risking his safety or disappointing his students.
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In 218 BC, Hannibal led his army with 27 elephants across the Alps to attack the Romans. Eleven years before this historic event, on the banks of a river near Carthage, North Africa, one of his elephants pulled a drowning girl out of rough waters. Thus began Liada's epic journey with an elephant named Obolus.
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Sophia volume 1
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Russian
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The Byzantine ambassadors come to the audience with Grand Duke Ivan III. With them, the portrait of a young princess Zoe Palaeologus who the Pope offers as wife for Ivan III. Against such a union, the Metropolitan does believe that this is the Vatican's cunning plan - to unite under its leadership the Orthodox and Catholic Church. But Ivan III sees in this marriage serious prospects for strengthening the state.
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Sophia volume 8
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Russian
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Having sent Sophia to exile, the Prince begins to drink. He dreams bad dreams, he can not make a final decision. At this time, Elena begins to seek an approach to Ivan, while he pushes it away. Elena believes that in her path there is only one person - Sofia, and therefore - she must be killed.
11) Beanpole
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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 and...
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Sophia volume 5
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Russian
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The Horde army is moving to Moscow but as winter is approaching, the Horde troops wait for the river to freeze in order to attack. A great standing on the river Ugra begins.
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Composed using his own libretto, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov created this magical opera based on the short story by Nikolay Gogol 'The Night before Christmas' in which Vakula the handsome blacksmith wants to marry the rich farmer's daughter Oksana, who in turn demands that he must first bring her the Tsarina's shoes. Meanwhile a witch on her broomstick gathers the stars and the devil steals the moon - demonic forces trying to hinder this romantic union....
14) Ward No. 6
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A bold contemporary adaptation of Anton Chekhov's legendary short story, Ward No. 6 chronicles one man's descent into madness. Dr. Ragin is the head doctor at a provincial insane asylum, where he interacts daily with the abandoned, the unloved and the forgotten. Lonely and isolated in his personal life, he finds solace in the long philosophical dialogues with his brilliant patient Gromov, which lead him to question the nature of his own existence....
15) 1944
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Estonia's official Oscar submission and a mega-hit on home turf, 1944 centers on the bloodiest battle on World War II's Eastern Front. Estonian soldiers find themselves torn between two mighty powers with some heading towards the Red Army and others finding themselves pledging allegiance to the Waffen SS. Each has their own reasons for choosing their sides they do – some believe in a better future for their beloved Estonia, others are simply trying...
16) The Tribe
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Winner of multiple 2014 Cannes Film Festival Awards (including the coveted Critics' Week Grand Prix), Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy's The Tribe is an undeniably original and intense feature debut set in the insular world of a Ukrainian high school for the deaf. The Tribe unfolds through the non-verbal acting and sign language from a cast of deaf, nonprofessional actors-with no need for subtitles or voice over––resulting in a unique, never before-experienced...
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Sophia volume 2
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Russian
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The Metropolitan refuses to crown Ivan and Sophia, but he still can not stop the wedding. Sophia's closest servant, trying to save her daughter's life, is bargaining with the Catholic Church and trying to poison the princess. At the same time, Iurie Ivan's brother is facing death from the enemy's arrow.
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Donetsk is the coal-mining area of Ukraine. Here most people work for low wages in the run down mines, while others make a lot of money. No matter which side of the social divide you are on, coming from Donetsk you will almost certainly be an opponent of the Orange Revolution and a fan of the local football team, Shakhtar Donetsk. Billionaire Akhmetov invests heavily in the club, which is becoming a major European force during the season followed...
20) Gitel
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It's September 5, 1969, and Gitel Bargman is about to attend a party to celebrate her 33rd birthday - although for her it is hardly cause for celebration. She is racked with guilt for simply being alive. Attractive, intelligent, and witty, Gitel is a successful violinist who lives in a Kuybyshev (USSR) apartment. To the outsider, she has everything. But Gitel hides a secret. She's a haunted woman: haunted not only by painful memories of the past,...
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