The Castle (1994) Drama Movie
The story of Kafka’s Castle. Year 1994.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Aleksey Balabanov |
| Writer: Aleksey Balabanov, Franz Kafka, Sergey Selyanov |
| Actors: Nikolay Stotskiy, Svetlana Pismichenko, Anvar Libabov |
The story of Kafka’s Castle. Year 1994.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Aleksey Balabanov |
| Writer: Aleksey Balabanov, Franz Kafka, Sergey Selyanov |
| Actors: Nikolay Stotskiy, Svetlana Pismichenko, Anvar Libabov |
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin’s Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well. Year 1985.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Aleksey German |
| Writer: Aleksey German, Yuri German, Eduard Volodarskiy |
| Actors: Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov |
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Ber… Year 1980.
| Generes: Drama, History, War |
| Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms |
| Writer: Helma Sanders-Brahms |
| Actors: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek |
The men go fishing. Russian men. Year 1998.
| Generes: Comedy |
| Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin |
| Writer: Aleksandr Rogozhkin |
| Actors: Aleksey Buldakov, Viktor Bychkov, Semyon Strugachyov |
Late for the last commuter train and reluctant to spend the night outdoors, two young men trick a family into letting them stay in their apartment: one of them insists that he’s the illegitimate son of the man who owns the apartment. Year 1976.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Vitaliy Melnikov |
| Writer: Vitaliy Melnikov, Aleksandr Vampilov |
| Actors: Evgeniy Leonov, Natalya Egorova, Vladimir Izotov |
Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin’s hands. Year 1998.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama |
| Director: Aleksey German |
| Writer: Joseph Brodsky, Aleksey German, Svetlana Karmalita |
| Actors: Yuriy Tsurilo, Nina Ruslanova, Mikhail Dementev |
The life of entire statistical bureau becomes crazy when an ordinary worker, a shy man, falls in love with a boss, a strict woman. Year 1977.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Director: Eldar Ryazanov |
| Writer: Emil Braginskiy, Eldar Ryazanov |
| Actors: Alisa Freyndlikh, Andrey Myagkov, Svetlana Nemolyaeva |
An ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, looks like Tsar of All Rus’ – Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 – 1584). He’d never known this, until his neighbor created a time machine. Year 1973.
| Generes: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi |
| Director: Leonid Gaidai |
| Writer: Mikhail A. Bulgakov, Vladlen Bakhnov, Leonid Gaidai |
| Actors: Yuriy Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlyov, Aleksandr Demyanenko |
When the King of Denmark suddenly dies. his son, Crown Prince Hamlet, returns home to find that his Uncle Claudius has usurped the throne and married his sister-in-law, Hamlet’s recently-widowed mother. One night Hamlet is visited… Year 1964.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Grigoriy Kozintsev |
| Writer: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Boris Pasternak, William Shakespeare |
| Actors: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina |
A waitress from the provincial railway station falls in love with an accidental passenger. Before this passenger lies the menace of distant prison for the crime he didn’t commit. Year 1983.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Director: Eldar Ryazanov |
| Writer: Emil Braginskiy, Eldar Ryazanov |
| Actors: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Basilashvili, Nikita Mikhalkov |
The mad adventures of the mad Italians, searching for the mad treasures in the mad Russia. Year 1974.
| Generes: Adventure, Comedy, Crime |
| Director: Francesco Prosperi, Eldar Ryazanov |
| Writer: Emil Braginskiy, Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia |
| Actors: Andrey Mironov, Ninetto Davoli, Antonia Santilli |
On the Russian front in 1944, German Private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn’t the same country he left behind. Year 1958.
| Generes: Drama, Romance, War |
| Director: Douglas Sirk |
| Writer: Orin Jannings, Erich Maria Remarque |
| Actors: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney |
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev. Year 1966.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History |
| Director: Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Writer: Andrey Konchalovskiy, Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Actors: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko |
Alyosha has a gambling problem and his girlfriend becomes a stripper to help pay off his debt. Year 1998.
| Generes: Comedy, Crime, Drama |
| Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy |
| Writer: Yuriy Korotkov, Renata Litvinova, Valeriy Todorovskiy |
| Actors: Chulpan Khamatova, Dina Korzun, Maksim Sukhanov |
ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster’s (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot. Year 1987.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, History |
| Director: Sergey Solovyov |
| Writer: Sergey Livnev, Sergey Solovyov |
| Actors: Natan Eidelman, Anatoly Slivnikov, German Shorr |
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress. Year 1937.
| Generes: Drama, War |
| Director: Jean Renoir |
| Writer: Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir |
| Actors: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay |