Russia

New Babylon

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Country:Russia

Director:G. Kozintsev and L. Trauberg

Year: 
1929

Duration: 
93

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.


The Cranes Are Flying

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Country:Russia

Director:Mikail Kolotozov

Year: 
1959

Duration: 
97

Summary:

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


Outskirts

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Country:Russia

Director:Boris Barnet

Year: 
1933

Duration: 
98

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.


Wings

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Country:Russia

Director:Larisa Shepitko

Year: 
1966

Duration: 
85

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.


Moloch

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Country:Russia

Director:Alexander Sokurov

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
1999

Duration: 
108

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.


Silent film with live music score by Percussion Discussion Afrika

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Country:Russia

Director:Sergei Eisenstein

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
1925

Duration: 
75

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.


Ivan the Terrible II: The Boyars’ Plot

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Country:Russia

Director:Sergei Eisenstein

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
1958

Duration: 
88

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.


Ivan the Terrible

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Country:Russia

Director:Sergei Eisenstein

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
1944

Duration: 
103

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.


The Sun

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Country:Russia

Director:Alexander Sokurov

Program:World Parallel

Year: 
2005

Duration: 
115

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?


War and Peace

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Country:Russia

Director:Sergei Bonderchuk

Program:World Parallel

Year: 
1967

Duration: 
427

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.