Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (THE SUN) broke boundaries with his dreamlike vision of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, RUSSIAN ARK. It's the first feature-length narrative film shot in a single... more
Levan Tediashvili, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Kakhi Kavsadze, Giorgi Tabidze. After traveling to New York to see his son and finding him deep in debt to a local mob boss, a retired wrestler from the... more
Tatiana Samoilova, Vasili Lanovoy, Nikolai Gritsenko. Tolstoy's brilliant novel about a young aristocrat in a loveless marriage to a man 20 years her senior. She falls in love with the dashing Count... more
Inspired by an ancient Russian folk tale and adapted from the novella by Daniel Chongadze, the Legend of Suram Fortress is a dazzling film by visionary director Sergei Paradjanov (Ashik Kerib,... more
An extraordinary drama set against the Russian Civil War, Commissar is a "brave, humane, and powerful work" (The New York Times) that tells the story of Klavdia Vavilova, a fierce Red Army woman... more