Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Grigori Kozintsev - Gamlet AKA Hamlet [+extras] (1964)

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Synopsis: A screen adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy. The somber Elsinore Castle that keeps secrets of many a crime is loom...

Lev Kulidzhanov - Prestuplenie i nakazanie AKA Crime and Punishment (1969)

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Plot Synopsis This Russian adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment packs nearly every pivotal event from the mammoth novel...

Giorgi Shengelaia - Pirosmani (1969)

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Description: This film is about the great Georgian painter – primitivist Niko Pirosmanashvili (1862-1918). An unknown, self-taught pai...

Yuliya Solntseva & Aleksandr Dovzhenko - Poema o more AKA The Poem of the Sea (1959)

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Summary: This is a movie-poem with philosophic and lyric contemplations about the construction of Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power stati...

Nikita Mikhalkov - Bez svideteley AKA Without Witness AKA In Private [+Extras] (1983)

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Synopsis: Without Witness is an unflinchingly intimate and wickedly plotted two-actor tour de force pitting a divorced couple against e...

Gleb Panfilov - Nachalo AKA Debut AKA The Beginning (1970)

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Synopsis: A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local...

Aleksandr Rou - Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki AKA The Night Before Christmas (1961)

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The whimsical combination of Christmas phantasmagoria and an eccentric fairy tale makes this film an unforgettable spectacle. The action...

Mikhail Kalatozov - Soy Cuba (1964) (HD)

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Four vignettes in Batista's Cuba dramatize the need for revolution; long, mobile shots tell almost wordless stories. In Havana, Mari...