Country:Russia

Director:G. Kozintsev and L. Trauberg

Summary:

A revolutionary epic set during the Paris Commune of 1871. The film charts the changes the heroine passes through as she becomes politicized and dies for her principles and the cause.

Country:Russia

Director:Mikail Kolotozov

Summary:

A beautiful evocation of the turning point in a relationship where two people are forced to go their separate ways.

Country:Russia

Director:Boris Barnet

Summary:

The setting is a backwater in 1914 Russia which is transformed into the war front. The film depicts the ordinary folk who go on with life as usual.

Country:Russia

Director:Larisa Shepitko

Summary:

A fascinating portrayal of fighter pilot Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old schoolmistress, she has so internalized the military ideas of service that she cannot adjust to life in peacetime.

Country:Russia

Director:Alexander Sokurov

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

During the spring of 1942, Adolf Hitler retires to his secluded retreat nestled on a remote hilltop where this film tries to present the person Hitler in more human guise.

Country:Russia

Director:Sergei Eisenstein

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

The movie revolves around an uprising on board the Battleship Potemkin in 1905. Conditions on the ship are unbearable, inciting revolutionary fervor among the sailors.

Country:Russia

Director:Sergei Eisenstein

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

His wife dead from poisoning and his chief warrior, Kurbsky, defected to the Poles, Ivan is lonely as he pursues a unified Russia with no foreign occupiers.

Country:Russia

Director:Sergei Eisenstein

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

In 1547, Ivan IV crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory. Ivan deftly plays to the people to consolidate his power.

Country:Russia

Director:Alexander Sokurov

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

This is an intimate portrait of Emperor Hirohito at the end of his tether. As Japan nears defeat at the end of World War II, is Hirohito's future as an Emperor or a war criminal?

Country:Russia

Director:Sergei Bonderchuk

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

Leo Tolstoy’s monumental novel is captured on film with total fidelity intertwining a love story and the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleons armies.