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1) Leviathan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma. The town's corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, and his land.
2) Sputnik
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
A doctor whose controversial practice has threatened her license is recruited by the military to treat a cosmonaut. Returning from space after a mysterious accident, the man has brought with him a nocturnal passenger which thrives on destruction; Tatyana wants to stop it from killing while the military wants to keep it as a secret weapon.
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
After discovering his mother is still alive, a six-year-old Russian boy runs away from his orphanage and sets out on a perilous journey to find her. Pursued by orphanage staff and the police, Vanya Solntsev must now face the most difficult challenges of his young life in this story inspired by true events.
4) Luna papa
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Tadjikistani filmmaker Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov directs this magical realist tragicomedy about a teenaged Tartar girl who mysteriously finds herself pregnant.
5) Night watch
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In present day Moscow, a battle ensues between the forces that control day and night.
6) Solaris
Series
Criterion collection volume 164
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 169 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
7) Come and see
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
An innocent young farm lad goes off to join the partisans fighting the Nazis and comes to experience, if not understand, the horrors of war.
Series
Film Movement volume year 8, film 10
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130, 16 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
On a desolate island in the Arctic Circle, two men work at a small meteorological station, taking readings from their radioactive surroundings. One day while Sergei is out, inexperienced Pavel receives terrible news for Sergei from HQ. Intimidated, Pavel can't bring himself to disclose the information. When the truth is finally revealed, the consequences explode against a chilling backdrop of thick fog, sharp rocks, and the merciless Arctic Sea.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (69 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Re-creates the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Prince Potemkin." It focuses on a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians, reflecting the spirit of the times.
10) 9th company
Pub. Date
[2010]
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.
11) My perestroika
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times, from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. Together, these childhood classmates paint a complex picture of the dreams and disillusionments of those raised behind the Iron Curtain.
12) Stalingrad
Pub. Date
[2014]
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.
13) Ivan's childhood
Series
Criterion collection volume 397
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.
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (405 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
A painstakingly detailed adaptation of the Tolstoy novel which follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats from 1805 to 1812, including Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
15) Hipsters
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
While the Cold War heats up on the world stage, rebellious youth in 1955 Moscow wage a cultural battle against dismal Soviet conformity, donning brightly colored black-market clothing, adopting American nicknames and reveling in forbidden jazz.
18) 12
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.
19) 1612
Pub. Date
2009
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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