Movies

Closely based on Franz Kafka's book "Das Schloß", the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a village to do a job...

Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart.

Documentary about Arseniy Tarkovsky, poet and father of Andrei Tarkovsky.

A performance by the Alexandrinsky Theatre based on the eponymous play by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. The production is based on the stage version by...

This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs...

This film was Sokurov's first feature at Lenfilm, roughly based on a short story by the contemporary Soviet writer Grigory Baklanov about the...

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall:...

The events of the film take place in a resort area South of the seaside city, beautiful and alien. The heroine of the film - girls orphanage for...

In a dystopian future, a totalitarian society called “Executors” ruled with an iron fist, each citizen assigned a number. Amidst this...

A new father could not be more happy about the birth of his first son...until he learns that the baby is not biologically his. In spite of...

When a charming crook sold fake archaeological treasures to a naive foreigner, he did not know what he was doing: an overseas guest turned out to be...

Young Kolya is in love with his singing teacher, but his life isn't easy. His father skips town after stealing some coins from a museum and his...

Varvara was born in Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century. And the first wedding she saw was her mother’s wedding. Years passed, the...

"Poetic documentary about the prominent Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky (1907/1989), father of director Andrei Tarkovsky. Arseny Tarkovsky translated...

An experimental drama about a boy and his illness, a wife looking for a site for her husband’s construction company and a beautiful girl who...

Students Nadya and Valera fell in love with each other and began to live together. Their classmates envy them, and the lovers have continuous...

The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it...

Representatives of the Russian nobility gathered at the dacha. A young nobleman Vlas, in love with the mistress of the estate, a simpering poetess, a...