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.

Country:Russia

Director:Andrei Tarkovsky

Program:World Parallel

Summary:

This drama is about the life of Andrei Rublev, the great 15th century Russian icon painter during a turbulent period of Russian history is about believe and faith.

Country:Russia

Director:Sergei Ryabov

Program:Parallel Youth

Summary:

Here an insignificant event can become a disaster for a child but the kindness of the child’s soul is capable to work a miracle… even to animate a tiny fish.

Country:Russia

Director:Lev Kuleshov

Program:Multiplying Parallels

Summary:

Incredibly, Kuleshov restricts himself to the parallel lives of individuals in a single cramped room as the montage graphically isolates each one. Set in a remote, frozen, and often claustrophobic location in the Yukon, the story focuses on a five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon who have just begun to enjoy great success when one of the members snaps, and suddenly kills two of the others. The two survivors, a husband and wife, subdue the killer but are then faced with an agonizing dilemma.

Country:Russia

Director:Lev Kuleshov

Program:Multiplying Parallels

Summary:

Kuleshov in particular was fascinated by Western films of popular culture which he was eager to transform and energize by both embracing them wholeheartedly yet satirizing them with targeted irony. Luch Smert, as it is known in Russian, is made like an adventure serial, fast moving, funny and crammed full of amazing moments. Lann needs the ray of the title to make the revolutionary rising at the helium factory a success while an international gang of reactionaries, headed by Revo, try to get hold of the deadly contraption for themselves.