This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora... more
Combining autobiographical accounts of life during World War II, political allegory, dream sequences, and newsreel footage, maverick Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky creates a haunting cinematic... more
Kira Ivanova-Golovko, Sergei Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Savelyeva. Russia and her people during the Napoleonic wars are eternally etched in Tolstoy's brilliant novel War and Peace and many times over on... more
Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko. Nikolay Sergeev, Irina Tarkovskaya, Nikolay Burlyaev. The life of the 15th-century Russian monk and icon painter unfolds here. Rublev clings to his... more
This foreboding and unforgettable tale of life on the brink of a potential nuclear disaster was the final work of director Andrei Tarkovsky and the winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes. As... more
This stirring Soviet drama is set during World War II and focuses on Sotnikov (Boris Plotnikov) and Rybak (Vladimir Gostyukhin), partisan soldiers captured by the Germans in Belarus while searching... more
Nikolay Burlyaey, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov. At the age of 12, Ivan had lost his family and his home to the destructive Nazi Army who then sent him off to a prison camp. However, Ivan never... more
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
This landmark film by the virtuosic Mikhail Kalatozov was heralded as a revelation in the post-Stalin Soviet Union and the international cinema community alike. It tells the story of Veronica and... more
After Alex (Konstantin Lavronenko) arranged a getaway to his rural hometown with his wife Vera (Maria Bonnevie) and the kids in a bid to salve their troubled marriage, she let him know she was... more
Sent to repair a burst pipe at a run-down housing community, plumber’s assistant and college student Dima notices a crack in a wall that indicates major structural damage to the building. With... more
COSMOBALL, directed by Dzhanik Fayziev (The Turkish Gambit, August Eighth), takes place after an intergalactic battle that destroys Earth s moon and causes worldwide devastation, leaving the human... more
In 1965, USSR cosmonauts Alexei Leonov (Evgeniy Mironov) and Pavel Belyayev (Konstantin Khabenskiy) boarded the Voskhod 2, with the mission of having Leonov become the first man to walk in space.... more
Long after the murder of his father a secret agent killed in a missile factory raid former special forces operative Nikita (played by renowned stuntman Ivan Kotik) returns to Russia as a mercenary.... more
After his high-speed aircraft is forced to make an emergency landing during a test flight, a young businessman and his brother are left stranded on an eerie uncharted island where the laws of time no... more