In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his party membership by associating with her rebellious crew.

O-Roshiya-koku suimu-tan

1992

Japanese

7.0

♡ 5

Biography

Drama

History

Jun'ya Satô Director

Yûji Ueda as

Oleg Yankovskiy as Kirill Gustavovich Laksman

Takuzô Kawatani as Koichi

Ken Ogata as Koudayu Daikokuya

Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.

My Twentieth Century

1989

Hungarian

7.0

♡ 2

Ildikó Enyedi Director

Sándor Czvetkó as Anarchista fiú

Ágnes Kovács as Iker

Gábor Máté as K

Oleg Yankovskiy as Z

A tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to be a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan. Their paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year's Eve 1899...

Tsar

2009

Russian

6.8

♡ 1

74%

Drama

History

Pavel Lungin Director

Andrey Bronnikov as Ilidor

Aleksey Frandetti as Kai-Bulat

Yuriy Kuznetsov as Malyuta Skuratov

Oleg Yankovskiy as Metropolitanate Philipp

In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute power, cruelly destroying anyone who gets in his way. During this reign of terror, Philip, the superior of the monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, a great scholar and Ivan's close friend, dares to oppose the sovereign's mystical tyranny. What follows is a clash between two completely opposite visions of the world, smashing morality and justice, God and men. A grand-scale film with excellent leading roles by Mamonov and Yankovsky. An allegory of Stalinist Russia

Tsareubiytsa

1991

Russian

6.8

♡ 3

russian revolution (1917)

Karen Shakhnazarov Director

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Aleksandr Yegorovich

Oleg Yankovskiy as Dr. Smirnov / Tsar Nicholas II

Malcolm McDowell as Timofeyev / Yurovsky

Albina Skarga as (uncredited)

A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...

Mute Witness

1995

English

6.7

♡ 9

85%

Anthony Waller Director

Evan Richards as Andy Clarke

Fay Ripley as Karen Hughes

Oleg Yankovskiy as Larsen

Alec Guinness as The Reaper

Billy is mute, but it hasn't kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister's boyfriend, Andy, Billy finds herself trapped in the studio one night and is horrified to see a snuff film being made. Billy escapes and, with the help of her sister, Kate, alerts authorities about what she saw. Unfortunately, in doing so, she makes an enemy of the Russian mafia, who funded the snuff film.

Patul lui Procust

2002

Romanian

7.5

♡ 1

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

Romance

Sergiu Prodan Director

Ion Siminie as Cibanoiu

Maia Morgenstern as Doamna T.

Oleg Yankovskiy as George Ladima

Claudiu Istodor as Procatorui

The poet and journalist Ladima commits suicide and his friend, Fred Vasilescu, tries to find out the reasons of those actions. In his search he discovers a mysterious Miss T.

Mirror

1975

Russian

7.9

♡ 55

100%

Andrei Tarkovsky Director

Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Forensic doctor

Margarita Terekhova as Natalya / Maroussia - the Mother

Ilene Woods as Scrub Woman

Oleg Yankovskiy as The Father

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.