The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

2021

English

6.3

92%

portrait of an artist

propaganda

russian history

soviet union history

Bill Morrison Director

Mikhail Zharov as (archive footage)

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step in a fascinating journey through the artistic life of film and stage actor Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (1899-1981), icon and star of an entire era of Russian cinema.

American Experience The Great Famine

2011

English

7.3

♡ 2

Biography

Documentary

environmental documentary

Austin Hoyt Director

Aysyuak Yumagulov as Bell Tribute

Andrey Noskov as Office Worker

George H. Nash as Self - Hoover Biographer

David Ogden Stiers as Self - Narrator

When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Examine Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration—an operation hailed for its efficiency, grit and generosity. By the summer of 1922, American kitchens were feeding nearly 11 million Soviet citizens a day.

Russian Ark

2002

Russian

7.2

♡ 14

89%

st. petersburg, russia

time travel

Aleksandr Sokurov Director

Anna Aleksakhina as Alexandra Fyodorovna, Wife of Nicholas II

Vadim Gushchin as Grandee of Catherine The Great

Sasha Durpfen as Marie Sinclair

Aleksandr Sokurov as The Time Traveller

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

Putin's Witnesses

2018

Russian

7.0

♡ 7

83%

christmas reunion

Documentary

documentary filmmaking

presidential election

rise to power

russian history

vladimir putin

Vitaliy Manskiy Director

Vladimir Putin as Self

Mikhail Gorbachev as Self

Dmitry Medvedev as Self

Ksenya Ponamarowa as Self

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of the country. From that day and for a year, Vitaly Mansky's camera documented Putin's rise to power. The story of a privileged witness. The harsh explanation of the reason why politics is the art of possibility of achieving the best with the support of many, but also of giving the worst in return.

The Command

2018

English

6.6

♡ 86

72%

59%

Action

Adventure

based on a true story

struggle for survival

submarine

Thriller

Thomas Vinterberg Director

John Hollingworth as Bruce Hamill

Colin Firth as Commodore David Russell

Zlatko Buric as Kulkin

Léa Seydoux as Tanya Averina

Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.

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