Research Guides: Movies (fiction) by Region: Russia

Russia DVDs

4 films by Otar Iosseliani 2005

Otar Iosseliani, Erlom Akhvlediani, Amiran Tchichinadze, Dimitri Erist`avi, Revaz Inanisvili, Tatiana Tchantouria, Ramaz Guiorgobiani, Guela Kandelaki, Nestor Pipia, Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze, N Ioseliani, Temur Bakuradze, and Facets Video (Firm)

Aprili: A critique of materialism, the film is about a young couple who live in a rundown empty apartment. Their love is so strong that it makes the water flow and the electricity work, but when they start purchasing furniture and knickknacks, they fight and grow apart.
Giorgobistve: A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet state. Iko shashvi mgalobeli: Guy Agladze resides in a large city and plays in an orchestra. Guy has a number of friends and acquaintances. His days are hectic and busy. He has to manage too much and he is always late. His time, his energy, his talents evaporate in the hassle of the day and among the little things to be done. Guy dies in an accident without having managed to note down the music that his soul was playing in the rare moments of his solitude.
Pastorali: The film tells the story of a group of well-trained musicians from a string quartet who spend the summer rehearsing in a small village in Georgia. Though they rehearse and bicker among themselves, the four become increasingly involved in local controversies and in the lives of the villagers. 2 videodiscs (305 min.)

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Aleksandr Nevskii Alexander Nevsky c2001

Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Dmitrievich Vasil ev, Petr Andreevich Pavlenko, Sergey Prokofiev, Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov, Nikolai Pavlovich Okhlopkov, Andrei L vovich Abrikosov, IU Temirkanov, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Janus Films, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

Biographical story of Prince Alexander Nevsky and his successful resistance against an attempt by the Teutonic Knights to invade Russia in 1242. 1 videodisc (108 min.)

MEDIA 10-300

Andrei Rublev strasti po Andreiu 1998

Andrei Sergeevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovskii, Andrei Arsen evich Tarkovskii, Anatolii Alekseevich Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, and Nikolai Grin ko

Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates works of art. 1 videodisc (205 min.)

MEDIA 10-65

Anna Karenina c2000

Aleksandr Zarkhi, V. V Katanian, Tat iana Samoilova, Vasilii Lanovoi, Nikolai Gritsenko, IUrii IAkovlev, Anastasiia Vertinskaia, I Savvina, Maiia Mikhailovna Plisetskaia, Boris Gordeev, Leo Tolstoy, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", and Ruscico (Firm)

The wife of an aging Russian aristocrat falls for a dashing cavalry officer. 2 videodiscs (145 min.)

MEDIA 10-253

The ascent 2008

Larisa Efimovna Shepit?ko, Boris Plotnikov, Janus Films, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

The Ascent tracks two Byelorussian peasant soldiers - one on the path to redemption, the other to hell - as they try to evade Nazi forces during World War II. 1 videodisc (109 min.)

MEDIA 10-2022

Ashik Kerib 2007, 1989

Sergei Paradzhanov, Dodo Abasize, Gia Badrize, Iuri Mgoniani, Sof ia Chiaureli, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, K Stepankov, Baya Dvalishvili, Veronika Matonidze, Mikhail IUr evich Lermontov, Ruscico (Firm), Kinostudia K`art`uli P`ilmi, and Kino International Corporation

Lermontov's famous fable tells of Ashik Kerib, the wandering minstrel who is trying to earn enough money to marry the girl he loves. But when the father of his beloved spurns him, Ashik is forced to roam the land for 1,001 nights. 1 videodisc (ca. 74 min.)

MEDIA 10-1670

Ballada o soldate Ballad of a soldier 2002

Grigorii Naumovich Chukhrai, Valentin Yezhov, Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", and Criterion Collection (Firm)

A soldier-boy earns a ten-day leave to go home to his mother by performing a desparate act of bravery at the front. On the way home he has many small adventures. 1 videodisc (88 min.)

MEDIA 10-234

The Battleship Potemkin c2007, 1925

Sergei Eisenstein, Helmut Imig, Deutschen Filmorchester Babelsberg, Deutsche Kinemathek, Bundesarchiv (Germany), Filmarchiv, and Kino International Corporation

Dramatization of actual events in Czarist Russia (1905). Shows the fierce mutiny aboard the battleship "Prince Potemkin" and the bloody aftermath in Odessa, where hundreds of innocent civilians who sympathized with the mutineers were massacred by the Czar's troops. 2 videodiscs (69 min.)

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Bed and sofa / Tret?eiia meshchanskaeiia 2004, 1927

Abram Matveevich Room, Ludmilla Semyonova, Nikola i Petrovich Batalov, Vladimir Petrovich Fogel?, Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin, Nikola i Shpikovski?i, Sovkino, Mezhrabpom-fil?m, and Image Entertainment (Firm)

Bed and sofa (87 min.) is the story of a love triangle between a woman and two men living together in a one-room basement apartment in 1927 Moscow. 2 videodiscs (115 min. each)

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Beloe solntse pustyni White sun of the desert 2003

Valentin Ezhov, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Vladimir Motyl ia, Anatolii Kuznetsov, Pavel Borisovich Luspekaev, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze, Raisa Kurkina, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Eksperimental noe tvorcheskoe ob edinenie, and Ruscico (Firm)

A recently discharged soldier makes his way across the desert, seeking only to get to his native village. He happens to be in the area usually occupied by a bandit and his gang. The bandit has left, abandoning all the women connected with the gang, and it falls to the soldier to help them get to safety. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

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Brat c2000

Aleksei Balabanov, Sergei Sel ianov, Sergei Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pis michenko, Komitet Rossiiskoi Federatsii po kinematografii, Kinokompaniia STV, and Ruscico (Firm)

Danila returns from army service and looks up his older brother, who's become a contract killer in post-Soviet St. Petersburg. Danila is drawn into the violent underworld culture but retains a kind of honor in his dealings with those he encounters there. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-299

Brat 2 Brother 2 2000

Aleksei Balabanov, Sergei Sel ianov, Sergei Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergei Makovetskii, Gary Houston, Kirill Pirogov, Kinostudiia "STV.", and Prem er Video Fil m (Firm)

Second film about a Russian "hero" Danila Bargov. He meets his army buddies with whom he fought in Chechnya. One of them, Konstantin, tells Danila about his brother, a professional hockey player in America, who is swindled into an oppressive contract by the team owner and his Russian partner. A few days after this conversation Konstantin is found dead and Danila needs to go to America to solve this crime. 1 videodisc (120 min.)

MEDIA 10-388

Chapaev c2006

Georgii Nikolaevich Vasil ev, Sergei Dmitrievich Vasil ev, Boris Babochkin, Boris Blinov, Varvara Myasnikova, Leonid Kmit, Illarion Nikolaevich Pevtsov, Nikolai Konstantinovich Simonov, Stepan Iosifovich Shkurat, Boris Chirkov, Dm Furmanov, Anna Furmanova, Lenfil m, and International Historic Films Inc

Vassiliy Ivanovich Chapayev, an illiterate Red Army hero during the Russian Civil War, is portrayed as a noble protector of the common people and a brave soldier. 1 videodisc (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-940

Chekhovskie motivy Chekhovian motifs c2003

Evgenii Golubenko, Kira Muratova, Sergei Bekhterev, Nina Ruslanova, Natal ia Buz ko, Filipp Panov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Nikola-fil m (Firm), and Ruscico (Firm)

Tatiana Repina appears at her former lover's wedding, despite her recent suicide. 1 videodisc (120 min.)

MEDIA 10-649

The childhood of Maxim Gorky 2002

Mark Donskoi, I. A Gruzdev, Aleksei Liarskii, V. O Massalitinova, M. G Troianskii, Maksim Gorky, Kino-studiia "Soiuzmul tfil m" (Soviet Union), and Image Entertainment (Firm)

Maxim Gorkly's poor childhood under the care of his grandparents. 1 videodisc (99 min.)

MEDIA 10-878

Class distinctions 1992

Erich Sargeant, Vasilii Goncharov, Evgenii Frantsevich Bauer, Arsenii Bibikov, Aleksandr Voznesenskii, Aleksandr Alekseevich Khanzhonkov, Aleksandra Goncharova, Ivan Il ich Mozzhukhin, Petr Chardynin , Dora Chitorina, Aleksandr Kheruvimov, Khanzhonkov Production Company, Gosfil mofond SSSR, British Film Institute, and Milestone Film & Video

Despite strict censorship intended to prevent any inflammatory material from reaching the screen, many early Russian films achieved a remarkably candid portrayal of social conditions. Gonsharov's The Peasants' Lot (1912) portrayed the hardship of rural life, while an early film by Bauer, Silent Witnesses (1914) dealt frankly with servants' views of their masters in a Moscow mansion. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

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The color of pomegranates and, Paradjanov, a requiem c2001

Serge i Paradzhanov, M Aleksanian, Sof eiia Chiaureli, V Galstian, Ronald Holloway, Dorothea Holloway, Katrin Schleosser, Frank Loprich, Connoisseur Video Collection (Firm), eO-Film Produktion (Firm), Armenfilm (Firm), and Kino International Corporation

Color or pomegranates: Stylized biography of noted eighteenth century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat Nova, based on his writings. It depicts the poet's life in eight sections, from childhood to death, rich with symbols of sacred and secular Armenian life. Paradjanov, a requiem: Offers an insightful look at the tumultuous career of the late Sergei Paradjanov. 1 videodisc (88 min.)

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Damskii portnoi The ladies tailor 2008, 1990

Set in the German-occupied Ukraine in Sept. 1941. Hitler orders all Jews to report for transport to another area. Depicts the reactions of a Jewish tailor and his extended family to the orders. 1 videodisc (88 min.)

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The Deserter Dezertir 2002

Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin, N Agdzhavona-Shutko, M Krasnostavskii, A Lazebnikov, Boris Nikolaevich Livanov, Vasili Kovrigin, Tamara Makorova, Dimitri Konsavskii, Mezhrapot-Fil m, and Image Entertainment (Firm)

A German shipyard laborer joins a worker's strike in defiance of a corrupt union and regardless of the company's violent reprisals. Starved, beaten and discouraged, he is sent in an envoy to the USSR and is rejuvenated by the spirit of cooperation and optimism of the idyllic workers' state. 1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) :

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Dolgie provody c2009

Kira Muratova, Nataliia Riazantseva, IU Kaiurov, Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirskii, Tat iana Mychko, Lidiia Dranovskaia, Gennadii Kariuk, Odesskaia kinostudiia, and Magnat (Firm)

A woman's son has grown up and, unbeknownst to her, has started to have ideas and plans of his own, including meeting his father who long ago abandoned the family. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

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Dva v odnom 2007?

Kira Muratova, Renata Litvinova, Evgenii Golubenko, Aleksandr Bashirov, Sergei Bekhterev, Natal ia Buz ko, and Bohdan Stupka

This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality--if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal. 1 videodisc (ca. 124 min.)

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The End of an era 1992

Evgenii Frantsevich Bauer, Georgii Azagarov, Aleksandr Volkov, Erich Sargeant, Ivan Perestiani, Vladimir Strizhevskii, Nikolai Mariusovich Radin, L. V Kuleshov, Lidiia Koreneva, Ivan Il ich Mozzhukhin, Nataliia Lisenko, Nikolai Panov, Boris Zavelev, Khanzhonkov Production Company, Ermolev (Firm), Gosfil mofond SSSR, British Film Institute, and Milestone Film & Video

Between the February and October revolutions in 1917, Russian cinema reflected urgent new themes, as in 'The Revolutionary.' But Bauer also continued his vein of tragic melodrama in what was to be his last film, 'For Luck' ... A poignant fragment, 'Behind the Screen,' shows the stars Mozzhukhin and Lisenko on the eve of their departure into exile. 1 videodisc (91 min.)

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Evgeni Bauer 1992

Evgenii Frantsevich Bauer, Elena Smirnova, Nina Kozlianinova, Lina Bauer, S Rassatov, Erich Sargeant, A. V Vyrubov, N Chernobaeva, Khanzhonkov Production Company, Gosfil mofond SSSR, British Film Institute, and Milestone Film & Video

Bauer is certainly the major discovery of the early Russian cinema. In a mere five prolific years he achieved mastery in several genres, including the social melodrama of A Child of the Big City (1913), erotic comedies like The 1002nd Ruse (1915), and the psychological gothic melodrama of Daydreams (1915). Admired by his contemporaries, he raised Russian cinema to an unparalleled artistic level before his early death in mid-1917. 1 videodisc (93 min.)

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Happiness Le bonheur 2007

Alexander Medvedkin, Gleb Troyanski, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Georges Bernand, Chris Marker, Andrei Pachkevitch, Alfred Schnittke, Marina Evseevna Goldovskaia , Pascal Aubier, Christian Hirou, Peter Zinoviev, Elena Georgievna Egorova, Nikolai Izvolov, K. K Paramonova, Viktor Dyomin, Moskino Kombinat, Films de l'Astrophore, Michael Kustow Productions, Epidem Films, Sept/Arte (Firm), Société de lancement des oeuvres nouvelles, Iskra Films, Icarus Films, and Arte Video (Firm)

"This two-disc set includes Chris Marker's tribute to Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin, Medvedkin's silent classic 'Happiness' (1934), and loads of extras." ; "Based on the life and work of the Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), 'The last bolshevik' is a tribute from one filmmaker to another. An archeological expedition into film history that reveals new cinematic treasures, the film prompts a reflection on the relation between art and politics in the former Soviet Union. The film captures the commitment, energy, struggles, illusions and disillusions of a believing but never naďve bolshevik. From Medvedkin's classic 1934 satire 'Happiness', and the 'film train' which he directed in the 1930s, to his sardonic comedies and bitter war newsreels, Chris Marker draws a panorama of the artistic, political, and moral universe of a life and a country, bringing it right up to date with his own vision of Russia today. An intricate work with many levels and layers, 'The last bolshevik' is also a distillation of the art and beliefs of one of the greatest documentarians of our time, Chris Marker, who has revolutionized documentary as his near-contemporary Jean-Luc Godard transformed film fiction, crossing boundaries and mixing genres."--Icarus Films website, viewed 20 May 2009. 1 videodisc (DVD) (64 min.) 1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.)

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High society 1992

Erich Sargeant, Eduard Puchalskii, Evgenii Frantsevich Bauer, Anton Fertner, Olga Rakhmanova, Lidiia Koreneva, Vitol d Al fonsovich Polonskii, Vera Kholodnaia, Lucifer Film Studio, Khanzhonkov Production Company, Gosfil mofond SSSR, British Film Institute, and Milestone Film & Video

A panorama of Russian cinema's social impact: Antosha Ruined By A Corset (Puchalski, 1916) is a racy, knowing urban comedy; A Life For A Life (1916) marked the pinnacle of Bauer's ambition to equal lavish foreign production standards; and The Funeral of Vera Kholodnaia (1919) records the vast public response to the early death of Russia's greatest star. 1 videodisc (86 min.)

MEDIA 10-2250

Iakov Protazanov 1992

IAkov Aleksandrovich Protazanov, Erich Sargeant, Elizaveta Thiemann, Vladimir Shaternikov, Olga Petrova, Mikhail Tamarov, Ivan Il ich Mozzhukhin, Vera Orlova, Elizaveta Shebueva, Ermolev (firm), Thiemann & Reinhardt (Firm), Gosfil mofond SSSR, British Film Institute , and Milestone Film & Video

Protazanov, a leading director of the early Russian cinema, did not shrink from controversy during his highly successful career. The departureof a great old man, about the last days of Tolstoy, provoked legal action by the outraged family. The queen of spades starred Mozzhukhin in one of his most compelling roles as Pushkin's haunted hero. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-2249

Idi i smotri Come and see c2003

E. G Klimov, Ales Adamovich, Ales Adamovich, A Kravchenko, O Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Byelorusfilm (Firm), Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", and Kino International Corporation

The horrific and harrowing experiences of a young boy coming of age during the brutal German occupation of Byelorussia during the Great Patriotic War. 1 videodisc (142 min.)

MEDIA 10-298

Ivan Groznyi Ivan the Terrible c2001

Sergei Eisenstein, Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov, Serafima Germanovna Birman, Pavel Petrovich Kadochnikov, Amvrosii Maksymilianovych Buchma, Mikhail Zharov, Mikhail Kunetsov, Andrei L vovich Abrikosov, Alexander Mgebrov, V Balashov, Sergey Prokofiev, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Criterion Collection (Firm), Janus Films, and Home Vision (Firm)

Part one is set in Moscow during the 16th century, Ivan Alexieff, Prince of Moscow, is crowned Tsar Ivan. This action puts him in direct opposition to all other royal families and Ivan finds himself isolated and alone in his attempt to centralize power under the crown. In Part two, Ivan returns to the throne after a self-imposed abdication to challenge the Boyars, Russia's corrupt aristocracy. Betrayed by his oldest friend and surrounded by murderous court intrigues, he resorts to summary executions to secure his throne. 2 videodiscs (184 min.)

MEDIA 10-301

Ivan Vasil evich meniaet professiiu 2001, 1973

Shurik has built a time machine in his apartment. When it accidentally sends the apartment manager and a thief to the tsar's palace during Ivan the Terrible's reign, and the Tsar finds himself in modern Moscow, things get interesting. 1 videodisc (87 min.)

MEDIA 10-4511

Ivanovo detstvo Ivan's childhood 2007

Vladimir Bogomolov, Mikhail Papava, Andrei Arsen evich Tarkovskii, Nikolai Burliaev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Vladimir Bogomolov, Janus Films, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Ministerstvo Kinematografii (Firm), Criterion Collection (Firm), and Image Entertainment (Firm)

An evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boy's war-torn youth. 12-year old Ivan works as a spy at the World War II eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Soviet officers try to take care of this boy-child. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-932

Kavkazskii plennik Prisoner of the mountains c2003

Boris Giller, Sergei Bodrov, Arif Aliev, Oleg Men shikov, Sergei Bodrov, Djemal Sikharulidze, Susanna Mekhralieva, Pavel Lebeshev, Olga Grinshpun, Vera Kruglova, Alan Baril, Leonid Desiatnikov, Leo Tolstoy, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Komitet Rossiiskoi Federatsii po kinematografii, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

A Russian army patrol is ambushed by Caucasian rebels and two survivors are taken prisoner, by a local patriarch who is hoping to barter them for the release of his captured son. A bond of understanding develops between the soldiers and their captors, but it is broken when plans for their release go awry and a chain of violence and retaliation is precipitated. 1 videodisc (99 min.)

MEDIA 10-238

Komissar 2007, 1988

A dedicated soldier of the newly-formed Soviet army becomes pregnant has to make a choice between becoming a mother and the needs of the Revolution. Set against the Russian Civil War, Klavdia Vavilova has a reputation in her unit as a selfless fighter, but her unexpected situation not only forces her to temporarily leave her comrades, her commanders have placed her in the household of a family of Ukrainian Jews. As the humanity and suffering of those living outside the party apparatus becomes apparent, Vavilova's emotions grow increasingly conflicted. Her tenuous situation turns dire when her unit returns for her and she is confronted with a final chance to show her loyalty to the cause. 2 videodiscs (104 min.)

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Korotkie vstrechi c2009, 1967

A busy district Soviet official interrupts her full schedule to befriend a young woman from the country and to recall her bittersweet memories of brief encounters with her often absent lover, a prospective geologist. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

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Landmarks of early Soviet film 4 disc DVD collection of 8 groundbreaking films c2011

"This groundbreaking collection features eight seminal films from the Soviet silent era - all are new to DVD"--www.flickeralley.com. The house on Trubnaya: Comedy about a young peasant woman who travels to Moscow to start a new life. By the law: Tense drama about Alaskan gold-miners. Extraordinary adventures of Mr. West in the land of the Bolsheviks: The first Russian anti-American film both arrogantly mocks American ignorance toward the Soviet Union and enviously copies American cinematic methods. Old and new: In this early Soviet propaganda film, a poor woman persuades her fellow villagers to form a cooperative. Stride Soviet!: Documentary exploration of the various layers of Moscow society on the ten-year anniversary of the Revolution. The film reveals the continuing class-based nature of Soviet society through a series of montages of city life. The fall of the Romanov dynasty: Historical documentary which uses newsreel footage (some shot by Czar Nicholas II's own cameramen) to depict the tumultuous events of 1912 through 1917, as the leadership of the Czar and the Russian aristocracy crumbles and Lenin rises to power in the wake of the Soviet Revolution. Turksib: Soviet documentary on the building of the first railroad across the Asian continent from Turkestan to Siberia. Salt for Svanetia: Explores the Caucasus region of Svanetia, a remote, mountainous area where the Ushkul tribe still lives in a stone-age culture. 4 videodiscs (ca. 595 min.)

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Letiat zhuravli The cranes are flying 2002

Tatiana Samoilova, Aleksei Vladimirovich Batalov, Mikhail Kalatozov, Viktor Rozov, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Janus Films, Home Vision (Firm), and Criterion Collection (Firm)

When Veronica's lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marrys him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war. 1 videodisc (94 min.)

MEDIA 10-235

Mne dvadtsat let 2006, 1965

A coming-of-age film focusing on three young men, Sergei, Kolka and Slavka, who were childhood friends. All three are individuals seeking internal freedom, independence and truth. The film explores the themes of the revolutionary ideal, national heritage and historical continuity in the 1960s. 1 videodisc (164 min.)

MEDIA 10-4439

Moloch 2005

Aleksandr Sokurov, Leonid Mozgovoi, Elena Rufanova, Leonid Sokol, Yelena Spiridonova, V Bogdanov, Alexei Fjordorow, Anatoli Rodionow, Lenfil m, Zero Film (Firm), and Koch Lorber Films

In an ominous fortress perched high above the clouds, everything seems in order for a reposing 24 hours. It is the spring of 1942 in Germany and Eva Braun is the only voice that dares contradict the Fuhrer. Eva is caught up in the complexities of a man incapable of human intimacy, making her as volcanic as her beloved Hitler. 1 videodisc (108 min.) :

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Moskva slezam ne verit Moscow does not believe in tears 2004

Vladimir Men shov, Valentin Chernykh, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", and Soveksportfil m (Firm)

Liudmilla, Katerina and ANtonia seem to have little in common, but are bound by a deep friendship and shared dream that in Moscow they will somehow find happiness. Moscow follows their resourceful pursuit of professional and domestic bliss in 1958, then skips forward twenty years to see just how many of their dreams have come true. 1 videodisc (150 min.)

MEDIA 10-303

Mother : the power of montage c.1998, 1926

Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin, Natan Zarkhi, Anatoli Golovnya, Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Petrovich Batalov, Maksim Gorky, Mezhrabpom-fil m, and Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m."

A heroic young revolutionary gives his life fighting against the misery and poverty of Tsarist Russia in the futile pre-war revolution of 1905, and, in so doing, brings about the political awareness of his own mother. 1 videodisc (87 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2503

Nastroishchik 2005

Kira Muratova, Sergei Chliiants, Sergei Chetvertkov, Evgenii Golubenko, Renata Litvinova, Georgii Deliev, Nina Ruslanova , Alla Demidova, A. F Koshko, Kinokompaniia "Pigmalion Prodakshn.", Odesskaia kinostudiia, and Vox Video (Firm)

A piano tuner and his girlfriend with less than the best intentions befriend two older women. 1 videodisc (154 min.)

MEDIA 10-2255

2007, 1943

1 videodisc (89 min.) :

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No greater love c2006, 1943

Fridrikh Ermler, Vera Petrovna Mareetiskaeiia, Petr Ale?inikov, A Violmov, Lidieiia Nikolaevna Smirnova, Irina Fyodorova, Nikola i Bogoleiiubov, G Gakkel , Ilya Lopert, W. A Pozner, eTiSentral?naeiia ob?edinennaeiia kino-studieiia khudozhestvennykh fil?mov, International Historic Films Inc, IHF Home Video, and Artkino Pictures, Inc

The story of a Russian peasant woman who leads a group of partisan villagers against the Nazi soldiers who killed her husband and infant son. 1 videocassette (74 min.)

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October 1917 1990

Sergei Eisenstein, Grigorii Vasil evich Aleksandrov, Vasili Nikandrov, N Popov, Nikolai Podvoisky, E Tisse, Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich, and Nikolai Il ich Podvoiskii

This Russian epic details the events which culminated in the Russian Revolution of October 1917, using the actual locations and many actual participants. 1 videocassette (105 min.)

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Okraina 2004, c1998

Petr Lutsik, Aleksei Samoriadov, IUrii Dubrovin, Nikolai Olialin, Aleksei Vanin, Aleksei Pushkin, Rimma Markova, Viktor Stepanov, Kinokompaniia "Utro XXI veka.", Goskino Rossii, and Facets Video (Firm)

A group of men fight injustice as they try to discover who stole their land. Their hunt for the offenders takes them from the gentle countryside to the halls of power. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

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Osobennosti natsional noi okhoty c2001, 1995

1 videodisc (93 min.)

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Oteetis soldata Father of a soldier c2001, 1964

Suliko eZcgenti, Rezo eC?xeicze, Sergo Zak?ariacze, Vladimir Privaltsev, Kinostudia K?art?uli P?ilmi, and Ruscico (Firm)

An old man leaves his Georgia village and goes off to the front lines to find his son, a soldier. 1 videodisc (92 min.)

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Padenie Berlina Fall of Berlin c2006

Mikhail Chiaureli, Petr Andreevich Pavlenko, Mixeil Gelovani, Maksim Shtraukh, Aleksei Nikolaevich Gribov, Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhov, G Belov, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", and International Historic Films Inc

Heroic Joseph Stalin inspires the troops to defeat a cowering Hitler in this no-expense-spared dramatization of the fall of Berlin in 1945. Presented to Stalin as a 70th-birthday gift but pulled from circulation in 1953, the film was made on Agfacolor stock removed from Germany by the Red Army. 1 videodisc (151 min.)

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Papa 2004

A Jewish father living in the remote Russian village of Tulchin dreams of his son going to the Moscow Conservatory and becoming a great violinist. David studies from the time he is small boy and goes to Moscow to study where his dreams and those of his father are upset by the beginning of World War II. 1 videodisc (94 min.)

MEDIA 10-3995

Petr Chardynin & Pushkin 1992

Erich Sargeant, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Petr Chardynin, Aleksandr Alekseevich Khanzhonkov, S Goslavskaia, Petr Biriukov, Aleksandra Goncharova, Ivan Il ich Mozzhukhin, Praskovia Maksimova, Khanzhonkov Production Company, British Film Institute, Gosfil mofond SSSR, and Milestone Film & Video

The former touring actor-manager, Petr Chardynin, made an early name for himself and gave Russian cinema a distinctly cultured orientation with Pushkin adaptations like The Queen of Spades (1910) and The House In Kolomna (1913). In the latter Chardynin's protege Mozzhukhin played both a dashing officer and a farcical cook in drag. 1 videodisc (45 min.)

MEDIA 10-2244

Provincial variations 1992

E Slavinskii, Nikolai Larin, Grigorii Libken, S Mintus, Julian Graffy, Neil Brand, Erich Sargeant, IA. A Gordin, Volga Company, Gosfil mofond SSSR, British Film Institute, and Milestone Film & Video

Jewish life was one of the exotic subjects covered in provincial films like the Latvian Wedding day (Slovinski, 1912). The remarkably bleak melodrama Merchant Bashkirov's daughter (Larin, 1913), set on the Volga, was based on a real murder scandal. 1 videodisc (55 min.)

MEDIA 10-2241

Le Pčre Serge 2006

IAkov Aleksandrovich Protazanov, Ivan Il ich Mozzhukhin, V Dzheneeva, V Orlova, Vladimir Georgievich Gaidarov, Leo Tolstoy, and Bach Films

On the eve of his wedding, a young officer discovers that his fiancée has been the mistress of the czar. Angered and deeply hurt, he retreats from the world and becomes a monk, only to be tormented thereafter by memories of his beloved and fantasies of the flesh. 1 videodisc (76 min.)

MEDIA 10-1987

Russian ark 2003, c2002

Andrey Deryabin, Jens Meurer, Karsten Stöter, Anatoly Nikiforov, Aleksandr Sokurov, Sergei Dontsov, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, State Hermitage Orchestra (Russia), Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (Russia), Hermitage Bridge Studio, Egoli Tossell Film AG, Russia (Federation), Ministerstvo kul tury, and Wellspring Media

A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-239

Shadows of forgotten ancestors c2007, 1964

Serge i Paradzhanov, Mykha ilo Koetiseiiubyns?ky?i, Ivan Chende?i, Ivan Mykola?ichuk, Larysa Kadochnikova, T Bestaeiieva, S Bahashvili, Andre i Arsen evich Tarkovski?i, Ruscico (Firm), Kinostudieiia Oleksanadra Dovzhenka, and Kino International Corporation

The heartbreaking story of Ivan and Marichka, whose love blooms, only to brutally die, in the remote Carpathian Mountains of medieval Russia. 1 videodisc (92 min.)

MEDIA 10-1671

Sobach e serdtse c2011, 1988

In the early 1920s after the Soviet revolution, a scientist and his assistant perform an operation to change a stray dog into a human, with highly questionable results. 1 videodisc (131 min.)

MEDIA 10-4509

Soy Cuba 2010, 1964

A dramatization of the decadence of Batista's Havana and the poverty that fueled the Cuban Revolution. In four stories showing the rise of the revolution, the films takes the viewer on a sweeping ride encompassing bathing beauties, landless peasants and student revolutions. 1 videodisc (135 min.)

MEDIA 10-4302

Stalingrad 1998, c1993

Joseph Vilsmaier, Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph, Royal Film Produktions, and Fox Lorber Home Video (Firm)

This film features the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare - the legendary battle of Stalingrad. 1 videodisc (150 min.)

MEDIA 10-287

Strike 2011

Mark the most outstanding cinematic debuts in the history of film. Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner, and Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most harrowing and powerful sequences, the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation. 1 videodisc (89 min.)

MEDIA 10-5186

Tri istorii c2003, 1997

Three surreal films about murder. 1 videodisc (113 min.)

MEDIA 10-4520

TSirk c2003, 1936

Alexandrov's attempt at importing American musical comedy into Soviet film. An American circus star who has a black baby can only find happiness with the Soviet people in the Soviet Union. 1 videodisc (89 min.)

MEDIA 10-4510

Uvlechen ia c2000

Igor Kalenov, Kira Muratova, Svetlana Kolenda, Renata Litvinova, Mikhail Demidov, Boris Dediukhin, Komitet Rossiiskoi Federatsii po kinematografii, and Ruscico (Firm)

Bizarre, idiosyncratic characters are all connected to the world of horse racing where sporting intrigues interlace with love affairs. 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-318

Voina i mir -- War and Peace 2002

Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk, Vasily Solovyev, Liudmila Savel eva, Viacheslav Tikhonov, Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov, Irina Skobtseva, Leo Tolstoy, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", and Ruscico (Firm)

Napoleon's army advances through Europe, and the high society of St. Petersburg discusses philosophical matters: What sets history in motion? The ambition of an emperor, the hastiness of a tsar, or the talent of a military commander? The destiny of Russia is inseparable from that of Andrei Bolkonsky, Pierre Bezukhov, and Natasha Rostova. 5 videodiscs (403 min.)

MEDIA 10-237

Vor The thief 1999

Vladimir Mashkov, Ekaterina Rednikova, Misha Philipchuk, Pavel Chukhrai, Stratosphere Entertainment, NTV Profit (Firm), Productions Le Pont, Roissy Films, Komitet Rossiiskoi Federatsii po kinematografii, Centre national de la cinématographie (France), Studio Canal+, and Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)

A tale of passion, betrayal and innocence lost, as seen through the eyes of an impressionable young boy. Set in post-World War II Russia. 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.)

MEDIA 10-310

Vozvrashchenie The return 2004

Andrei Zviagintsev, Dmitry Lesnevski, Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavromenko, Nataliia Vdovina, and Kino International Corporation

Having a fatherless childhood, young brothers Andrei and Ivan have grown closer than most siblings. But when they least expect it, the father the boys have never known returns. Under the cool midnight sun of a coastal Russian summer, the boys eagerly hop into a car for a fishing trip with a complete stranger they absolutely need to believe is their father. As they travel deep into the wilderness, their journey devolves from vacation to boot camp to father-son love triangle and ultimately to a test of wills that pushed to the brink of violence. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-355

Wings a film 2008

Larisa Efimovna Shepit?ko, Zhanna Bolotova, Pantelejmon Krymov, Leonid D?eiiachkov, Vladimir Gorelov, and Criterion Collection (Firm)

Suffocated by Modern-day living, a buttoned-down headmistress reminisces about her glory days as a World War II pilot. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

MEDIA 10-2021

Zhestokii romans c2000

El dar Riazanov, Alisa Freindlikh, Larisa Guzeeva, Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrei Miagkov, Viktor Alekseevich Proskurin, Andrei Pavlovich Petrov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky, Ruscico (Firm), Image Entertainment (Firm), and Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m."

Laria Ogudalova, the heroine, loses security in marriage and even life for love. 2 videodiscs (145 min.)

MEDIA 10-243

Russia

4 films by Otar Iosseliani 2005

MEDIA 10-703

Aelita 1991

IAkov Aleksandrovich Protazanov, Yulia Solntseva, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Valentina Kuinzhi, Nikolai Petrovich Batalov, and Igor Ilinsky

A Moscow engineer designs a spaceship and travels to Mars to meet a woman who haunts his dreams. He succeeds, but finds himself embroiled in a Martian proletarian uprising. 1 videocassette (113 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5569

Aleksandr Nevskii Alexander Nevsky c2001

Biographical story of Prince Alexander Nevsky and his successful resistance against an attempt by the Teutonic Knights to invade Russia in 1242. 1 videodisc (108 min.)

MEDIA 10-300

Alexander Nevsky 1990

Sergei Eisenstein, Sergey Prokofiev, D Vasil ev, Petr Andreevich Pavlenko, Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov, Nikolai Pavlovich Okhlopkov, Andrei L vovich Abrikosov, and Dmitrii Nikolaevich Orlov

Historical drama set in 1242 which deals with the defence of Russia by the prince, Alexander Nevsky, from invasion by Teutonic crusaders. 1 videocassette (108 min.) :

MEDIA 2-105

Alexander Nevsky Aleksandr Nevskii 1987, 1994

Sergei Eisenstein, D Vasil ev, Petr Andreevich Pavlenko, Sergey Prokofiev, V Lugovskoi, Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov, Nikolai Pavlovich Okhlopkov, Andrei L vovich Abrikosov, William D Brohn, IU Temirkanov, and Evgeniia Gorokhovskaia

Created as a propaganda piece in Stalinist Russia to raise the fears of the Russian populace about the threat of a German invasion, this artistic masterpiece by one of Russia's greatest directors tells the story of Russian folk hero Alexander Nevsky who united the peasants of Russia in 1242 to defeat invading Teutonic knights. 1 videocassette (110 min.) :

MUSIC 310

Andrei Rublev strasti po Andreiu 1998

Andrei Sergeevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovskii, Andrei Arsen evich Tarkovskii, Anatolii Alekseevich Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, and Nikolai Grin ko

Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates works of art. 1 videodisc (205 min.) :

MEDIA 10-65

Anna Karenina c2000

The wife of an aging Russian aristocrat falls for a dashing cavalry officer. 2 videodiscs (145 min.)

MEDIA 10-253

Arsenal 197-

Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, S Svashenko, Amvrosii Maksymilianovych Buchma, and M Nademsky

Provides a picture of life in the Ukraine in 1914 by intercutting scenes showing the miseries of the class struggle in the countryside and the horrors of war at the front. 1 videocassette (70 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1264

Ashik Kerib 2007, 1989

MEDIA 10-1670

Awakening 1991

Juris Podnieks

Examines the social, political, and religious issues of the Soviet Union, along with its long history of oppression. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1631

Ballada o soldate Ballad of a soldier 2002

Grigorii Naumovich Chukhrai, Valentin Yezhov, Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", and Criterion Collection (Firm)

A soldier-boy earns a ten-day leave to go home to his mother by performing a desparate act of bravery at the front. On the way home he has many small adventures. 1 videodisc (88 min.)

MEDIA 10-234

The Battleship Potemkin c1998

Sergei Eisenstein, Grigorii Vasil evich Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Pavlovich Antonov, IAkov Bliokh, E Tisse, Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich, Vladimir Barskii, Mikhail Gomarov, Image Entertainment (Firm), Corinth Films, Soveksportfil m (Firm), Corinth Video, Nina Ferdinandovna Agadzhanova, and Rob Edelman

Re-creates the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Prince Potemkin." It focuses on a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians, reflecting the spirit of the times. 1 videodisc (74 min.)

MEDIA 10-240

The Battleship Potemkin c2007, 1925

Sergei Eisenstein, Helmut Imig, Deutschen Filmorchester Babelsberg, Deutsche Kinemathek, Bundesarchiv (Germany), Filmarchiv, and Kino International Corporation

MEDIA 10-1455

Bed and sofa 198-?

Abram Room, Ludmilla Semyonova, Nikolai Batalov, and Vladimir Fogel

Depicts family life in Russia under the Five Year Plan by focusing on a Moscow family and their lodger during a housing crisis. 1 videocassette (100 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1292

Bed and sofa / Tret?eiia meshchanskaeiia 2004, 1927

Bed and sofa (87 min.) is the story of a love triangle between a woman and two men living together in a one-room basement apartment in 1927 Moscow. 2 videodiscs (115 min. each) :

MEDIA 10-1337

Beloe solntse pustyni White sun of the desert 2003

MEDIA 10-377

Black & white 2000

Boris Frumin, Cornelia Burnhan, Evgeny Volkov, Elena Shevchenko, Gilbert Giles, Facets Video (Firm), Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Ill.), and MN Productions (Firm)

"The story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigré studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an African American building superintendent on New York's Lower East Side, and the bond that they form from living on the edges of Manhattan"--Container. 1 videocassette (92 min.)

MEDIA 2-7621

Brat c2000

Aleksei Balabanov, Sergei Sel ianov, Sergei Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pis michenko, Komitet Rossiiskoi Federatsii po kinematografii, Kinokompaniia STV, and Ruscico (Firm)

MEDIA 10-299

Brat 2 Brother 2 2000

Aleksei Balabanov, Sergei Sel ianov, Sergei Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergei Makovetskii, Gary Houston, Kirill Pirogov, Kinostudiia "STV.", and Prem er Video Fil m (Firm)

MEDIA 10-388

Chapayev 1987

Dm Furmanov, Sergei Vasil ev, Georgy Vasiliev, Boris Babochkin, B Blinov, and Varvara Myasnikova

Based on a biography by Dmitri Furmanov, a drama which depicts the exploits and battles of an individualistic Red Army officer during the Russian civil war of 1919. 1 videocassette (94 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1309

Chekhovskie motivy Chekhovian motifs c2003

Evgenii Golubenko, Kira Muratova, Sergei Bekhterev, Nina Ruslanova, Natal ia Buz ko, Filipp Panov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Nikola-fil m (Firm), and Ruscico (Firm)

Tatiana Repina appears at her former lover's wedding, despite her recent suicide. 1 videodisc (120 min.)

MEDIA 10-649

Chelovek s kino-apparatom 198-

Dziga Vertov

Multi-leveled study of daily life in the Soviet Union. Enables the viewer to see the making of a film and at the same time the film that is being made. Noteworthy are the presence in the film of camera and cameraman, use of freeze frames, superimposures, trick shots. 1 videocassette (89 min.) :

MEDIA 2-477

The color of pomegranates and, Paradjanov, a requiem c2001

MEDIA 10-1672

The Commissar 1988

Aleksander Askol dov, Nonna Mordyukova, R Bykov, and Vasilii Semenovich Grossman

In this drama set against the Russian Civil War, a tough Red Army commander's military career is disrupted by an unwanted pregnancy. Forced to stay with a poor Jewish family until her child is born, she finds herself transformed by the warmth and compassion of her hosts. She must ultimately decide whether to rejoin her troops or stay with her child. 1 videocassette (105 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2643

Dersu Uzala Dersou Ouzala 1994

Akira Kurosawa, IU Solomin, Maksim Monguzhukovich Munzuk, Gerald J Rappoport, and V. K Arsen ev

An enthralling tale of an eccentric Mongolian frontiersman who is taken on as a guide by a Soviet surveying crew. At first perceived a naive and comical relic of an uncivilized age, he quickly proves himself otherwise with displays of ingenuity and bravery. 1 videocassette (140 min.) :

MEDIA 2-6008

Dom na peske 199-

Niiole Adomenaite, Nataliia Chepik, Elena Shiffers, Elena Shachkova, IUrii Astaf ev, and Tat iana Tolstaia

A slice of life among the Russian intelligentsia on the eve of World War II. A bored group of friends plays a practical joke on their clique's outcast, sending her a letter from a supposed admirer hopelessly in love with her. 1 videocassette (75 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5044

Don Kikhot Don Quixote 1988, 1957

Grigorii Mikhailovich Kozintsev, Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov, IUrii Tolubeev, Serafima Germanovna Birman, Vladimir Emel ianovich Maksimov, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

An old Spaniard becomes so impressed by stories of ancient chivalry that he transforms himself into a mighty knight-errant and takes up arms in defense of the weak and the oppressed. Considered one of the director's best. 1 videocassette (ca. 98 min.) :

DANA. MEDIA 356 2-2394

The End of St. Petersburg 198-?

Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin, Alexis Davor, Peter Petrovich, Olga Korloff, and Anna Baranowska

A view of changing conditions in Russia as interpreted by a young peasant who lived through the upheaval in St. Petersburg which culminated in revolution in 1917. Surveys the events of the war years, the overthrow of the Czarist regime, and the final establishment of the people's government - the transition from St. Petersburg to Leningrad. 1 videocassette (80 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1298

Genghis blues 1998

Roko Belic, Adrian Belic, Paul Pena, and Kongar-ol Ondar

The story of blind blues singer Paul Pena and his triumpant trek to the forgotten land of Tuva, where he competes in a triennial throat singing contest. 1 videocassette (88 min.) :

JAZZ 376

Gorilla bathes at noon 2000

Dusan Makavejev, Bojana Marijan, Alfred Hürmer, Joachim von Vietinghoff, Svetozar Cvetkovi c, Anita Manci c, Alexandra Rohmig, Petar Bozovi c, Andreas Lucius, alert-Film, Ekstaza (Firm), Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion, and Facets Video (Firm)

Examines the Soviet Union's collapse through the goofball misadventures of one Russian soldier stranded in East Berlin after the fall of the wall. Makavejev shows us part of the sea of change in Eastern Europe by following the absurdly optimistic Major Victor Borisovich after his entire army unit deserts. 1 videocassette (80 min.)

MEDIA 2-7218

Happiness Le bonheur 2005

Chris Marker, Alexander Medvedkin, Michael Kustow, Viktor Dyomin, Marina Evseevna Goldovskaia, Antonina Pirojkova, Peter Zinoviev, Elena Egorowa, Films de l'Astrophore, Moskino Kombinat, Arte Video (Firm), and Icarus Films

[Disc 1] Le bonheur: Drawn from the depths of Russian culture and folklore, Alexander Medvedkin takes a humorous shot at the Revolution in a collation of episodes loaded with satire, in a film that was banned for forty years in Stalinist Russia. [Disc 2] Le tombeau d'Alexandre: Using a portrait of Russian filmmaker the late Alexander Medvedkin, also a personal acquaintance, Marker seeks to investigate the tragedy of this century through a partial rewriting of the history of Russia. He does this in the form of six fictitious video letters to Medvedkin, pausing at important phases in Soviet history - the revolution, the civil war, Stalinist repression, the war and glasnost - to ask what the filmmaker was doing at the time. Includes interviews recorded by Marker on visits to Moscow and clips from Medvedkin's films. 2 videodiscs (ca. 60 min. ; ca. 120 min) :

MEDIA 10-1203

IA-Kuba I am Cuba 1995

Mikhaila Kalatozov, Marin Scorese, Francis Ford Coppola, Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Vud, José Gallardo, Raúl Garcia, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko, and Enrique Pineda Barnet

A series of vignettes illustrates the extremes of wealth and poverty, the exploitation, and the passions that led to the Cuban Revolution. 1 videocassette (141 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2837

Idi i smotri Come and see c2003

E. G Klimov, Ales Adamovich, Ales Adamovich, A Kravchenko, O Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Byelorusfilm (Firm), Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", and Kino International Corporation

The horrific and harrowing experiences of a young boy coming of age during the brutal German occupation of Byelorussia during the Great Patriotic War. 1 videodisc (142 min.)

MEDIA 10-298

The inspector general a comedy by N.V. Gogol 1996

Vladimir Petrov, Nikolai Vasil evich Gogol , Nikolai Vasil evich Gogol , I Gorbachev, Alexei Gribov, IUrii Tolubeev, and Erast Garin

A corrupt village incorrectly believes that a medicine-show entertainer is the omnipotent Inspector General in disguise. 1 videocassette (130 min.) :

DANA 1618

Ivan Groznyi Ivan the Terrible c2001

MEDIA 10-301

Ivan the Terrible 1984?

Sergei Eisenstein, Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov, Ludmila Tselikovakkaya, Serafima Germanovna Birman, and Piotr Kadochnikov

Ivan, Grand Duke of Russia, is crowned as the first Czar of Russia. His struggles to preserve his country are the main concerns of the first part. The landed gentry of Russia conspire to dethrone Ivan in the second part. 2 videocassettes (118 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-1217 cassette 1 2-1218 cassette 2

Ivanovo detstvo khudozhestvennyi fil m 1997

Andrei Arsen evich Tarkovskii, Kolia Burliaev, Vladimir Bogomolov, and Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m."

An orphan boy serves the Russian army by reconnoitering behind enemy lines during World War II. 1 videocassette (92 min.)

MEDIA 2-6631

Kavkazskii plennik Prisoner of the mountains c2003

MEDIA 10-238

King Lear (Russia, 1971) 1996

William Shakespeare and Grigorii Mikhailovich Kozintsev

A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which tragedy occurs when an old king divides his kingdom between his daughters. 1 videocassette (ca. 140 min.) :

DANA 851

Kino-Pravda Enthusiasm 199-

Dziga Vertov

Kino-Pravda: Consists of a record of Soviet life edited into a unique genre of mixed documentary, animation and reviews and provides a record of the Revolution's social achievements. Enthusiasm: Celebrates the enthusiasm with which the peasants and miners of the Don River basin in Russia fulfilled their first five-year plan quotas following the October Revolution. 1 videocassette (81 min.) :

MEDIA D-452

Korol Lir po tragedii Shekspira c1996

IUrii IArvet, Elsa Radzin , Valentina Shendrikova, Grigorii Mikhailovich Kozintsev, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, William Shakespeare, Lenfil m, Soveksportfil m (Firm), and Nostalgia Family Video (Firm)

Presents Shakespeare's tragedy of the fall of a king and father. Elicits the themes of sanity and madness, authority and obedience, devotion and ingratitude. 1 videocassette (ca. 140 min.)

MEDIA 2-6694

Krug vtoroi The second circle 1992?

Aleksandr Sokurov, IUrii Arabov, Petr Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Bystriakov, Nadezhda Rodnova, Tamara Timofeeva, International Film Circuit (Firm), Soviet Cultural Foundation (Leningrad), and Creative Initiative Centre

A young man travels to a frigid Siberian town and tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality. 1 videocassette (92 in.)

MEDIA 2-6484

Larisa Larisa / Mosfilm USSR ; this film was created by E. Klimov ... [et al.] ; director, Elem Klimov ; writer, V. Rasputin 1996?

E. G Klimov, Valentin Grigor evich Rasputin, Maya Bulgakova, and S Staniuta

Tells the story of the life and creative work of Larisa Shepit ko, one of the most popular Soviet motion picture directors; features remembrances by colleagues and her husband, Elem Klimov. 1 videocassette (25 min.) :

MEDIA 2-5438

Letiat zhuravli The cranes are flying 2002

Tatiana Samoilova, Aleksei Vladimirovich Batalov, Mikhail Kalatozov, Viktor Rozov, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Janus Films, Home Vision (Firm), and Criterion Collection (Firm)

MEDIA 10-235

Little Vera 1988

Natalia Negoda, Vasilii Pichul, Mariia Khemlik, Liudmila Zaitseva, Andrei Sokolov, IUrii Nazarov, Aleksandr Alekseev-Negreba, Aleksandriia Tabakova, Andrei Fomin, and Aleksandr Lenkov

The story of a sullen, sultry teenager with few goals in life who is trying to deal with a brooding boyfriend, an abusive alcoholic father, an ineffectual mother and the futility of a life trapped in her small industrial town. 1 videocassette (110 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1644

The Mirror 198-

Andrei Arsen evich Tarkovskii, Oleg Yanovsky, and Margarita Terekhova

Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, images of Tarkovsky's childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life--a child's wartime exile, a mother's experience with political terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home--all intermingled with slow-motion dream sequences and chuncks of stark newsreels. 1 videocassette (106 min.) :

MEDIA 2-705

Moskva slezam ne verit Moscow does not believe in tears 2004

Vladimir Men shov, Valentin Chernykh, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", and Soveksportfil m (Firm)

MEDIA 10-303

Mother 197-

Maksim Gorky, Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin, Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov, A Chistyakov, Cinema Eight (Firm), and Mezhrabpom-fil m

Pudovkin's film of Maxim Gorky's novel about a heroic young revolutionary who, in the futile prewar revolution of 1905, gives his life fighting against the misery and poverty of Tsarist Russia and, in so doing, brings about his own mother's political awareness. 1 videocassette (ca. 75 min.)

MEDIA D-418

Neokonchennaia p esa dlia mekhanicheskogo pianino An Unfinished piece for a player piano 198-?

Nikita Mikhalkov, A Adabash ian, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kaliagin, Elena Solovei, Evgeniia Glushenko, and Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A once-idealistic school teacher marries a simple country girl. Bored and idle, he escapes into romantic adventures with three other women, one of whom kills him when he betrays her. 1 videocassette (100 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1578

Russia (Continued)

No greater love c2006, 1943

The story of a Russian peasant woman who leads a group of partisan villagers against the Nazi soldiers who killed her husband and infant son. 1 videocassette (74 min.) :

MEDIA 10-1338

Oblomov 1992?, 1981

Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov, Elena Solovei, IUrii Bogatyrev, Andrei Alekseevich Popov, Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov, Alexander Adabashian, and A Romashin

A comedic drama about a landed gentry of nineteenth-century Russia whose indolence destroys his life. 1 videocassette (145 min.) :

MEDIA 2-2018

October 1917 1990

Sergei Eisenstein, Grigorii Vasil evich Aleksandrov, Vasili Nikandrov, N Popov, Nikolai Podvoisky, E Tisse, Dmitrii Dmitrievich Shostakovich, and Nikolai Il ich Podvoiskii

This Russian epic details the events which culminated in the Russian Revolution of October 1917, using the actual locations and many actual participants. 1 videocassette (105 min.) :

DANA 539, 10-289

October ten days that shook the world 1980

Depicts events of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. Describes the Kerensky regime and the European War, and discusses the conflicting plans and ambitions of various participants. 1 videocassettes (95 min.) :

MEDIA 2-147

Okraina 2004, c1998

A group of men fight injustice as they try to discover who stole their land. Their hunt for the offenders takes them from the gentle countryside to the halls of power. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-321

Oteetis soldata Father of a soldier c2001, 1964

Suliko eZcgenti, Rezo eC?xeicze, Sergo Zak?ariacze, Vladimir Privaltsev, Kinostudia K?art?uli P?ilmi, and Ruscico (Firm)

An old man leaves his Georgia village and goes off to the front lines to find his son, a soldier. 1 videodisc (92 min.) :

MEDIA 10-1641

Peter the First 1986

Vladimir Petrov, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, N Leshchenko, Nikolai Konstantinovich Simonov, Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov, Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova, Mikhail Zharov, and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Revolves around the war between Russia and Sweden over control of the Baltic Sea. 2 videocassettes (ca. 203 min.) :

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-995 cassette 1 2-996 cassette 2

Po zakonu By the law ; Shakhmatnaia goriachka = Chess fever c1997

L. V Kuleshov, Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky, Jack London, Vladimir Petrovich Fogel , Sergei Komarov, Alexandra Khokhlova, David Shepard, Kino International Corporation, and Goskino Rossii

By the law: While searching for gold in the Yukon, a disgruntled prospector viciously murders two of his fellow shareholders. The surviving members must decide the fate of their deranged cohort. Chess fever: A Keaton-esque comedy in which a young man's passion for the game threatens to wreck his marriage. 1 videocassette (108 min.)

MEDIA 2-6574

Potemkin 1986

Sergei Eisenstein

A dramatic reenactment of the mutiny aboard the Russian battleship potemkin in 1905. 1 videocassette (63 min.) :

MEDIA 2-149

Prince Igor 1985

I Glikman, Roman Tikhomirov, Gennadii Provatorov, Michel Fokine, and Aleksandr Porfir evich Borodin

1 videocassette (VHS) (109 min.) :

MUSIC 136

Repentance 1988

T engiz Abulaze, Avt andil Maxaraze, and Zeinab Botsvaze

In a small, somewhat surreal Russian village, a mysterious woman is put on trial for repeatedly digging up the body of Varlam, the town's recently deceased ruler. The trial progresses, and it's learned that the woman's parents perished under Varlam's vicious reign of terror. 1 videocassette (151 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1258

Russian ark 2003, c2002

MEDIA 10-239

The Sea gull 198-

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Yuli Karassik, A. K Demidova, V Chetverikov, and N Plotnikov

A study of the languid melancholia of the residents of an isolated country estate in provincial Russia. 1 videocassette (VHS) (99 min.) :

DOUGLASS. MEDIA 75 2-1254

The Sea gull Chaika 1986?

IUlii Karasik, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Alla Demidova, V Chetverikov, and N Plotnikov

A study of the languid melancholia of the residents of an isolated country estate in 19th century provincial Russia. 1 videocassette (99 min.) :

DANA 340

Shadows of forgotten ancestors c2007, 1964

The heartbreaking story of Ivan and Marichka, whose love blooms, only to brutally die, in the remote Carpathian Mountains of medieval Russia. 1 videodisc (92 min.) :

MEDIA 10-1671

Shadows of forgotten ancestors Tini zabutykh predkiv 1994

Sergei Paradzhanov, Mykhailo Kotsiubyns kyi, Ivan Chendei, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Larysa Kadochnikova, and T Bestaieva

The heartbreaking story of Ivan and Marichka, whose love blooms, only to brutally die, in the remote Carpathian Mountains of medieval Russia. 1 videocassette (99 min.) :

DANA 540

Siberiade c1994

Andrei Sergeevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovskii, Liudmila Gurchenko, Natal ia Andreichenko, Nikita Mikhalkov, Vitalii Solomin , Vladimir Samoilov, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Soveksportfil m (Firm), International Film Exchange, and Kino International Corporation

An epic romantic drama about three generations of two feuding families, the rich Solomins and the poor Ustyuzhanins, of a rural Siberian village, from the time of the Russian Revolution to the present-day exploration of hidden resources of Siberian soil. 2 videocassettes (206 min.)

MEDIA 2-6579, 2-6580

A Slave of love Raba liubvi 1989

Nikita Mikhalkov, Fridrikh Gorenshtein, Andrei Sergeevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovskii, Elena Solovei, and Rodion Nakhapetov

The year is 1917 and the Bolsheviks have taken control of northern Russia. But in southern Crimea, where the White Army is still in control, a small film crew is hurrying to finish a frivolously melodramatic silent picture. The beautiful star, Olga, falls in love with the cameraman, a revolutionary, and through him Olga is drawn into the Bolshevik underground and becomes passionate about her political involvement. 1 videocassette (94 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1949

Stalingrad 1998, c1993

Joseph Vilsmaier, Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph, Royal Film Produktions, and Fox Lorber Home Video (Firm)

This film features the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare - the legendary battle of Stalingrad. 1 videodisc (150 min.)

MEDIA 10-287

Strike Stachka 198-?

Sergei Eisenstein, Grigorii Vasil evich Aleksandrov, Maxim Strauch, Mikhail Gomarov, Alexander Antonov, Judith Glizer, and Boris Yurtsev

Set in pre-World War I Tsarist Russia, the story depicts a strike by factory workers and its brutal suppression by the authorities. The hero and principal character is the mass of workers. 1 videocassette (90 min.) :

MEDIA 2-1296

The Tsar's bride 1985

A Donatov, Vladimir Gorikker, Evgenii Fedorovich Svetlanov, Vadim Mass, Lev Aleksandrovich Mei, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

1 videocassette (VHS) (96 min.) :

MUSIC 131

TSirk c1996

Grigorii Vasil evich Aleksandrov, Liubov Petrovna Orlova, Vladimir Volodin, Evgeniia Mel nikova, N Massal skii, Sergei Stolyarov, Aleksandr Komissarov, Gosfil mofond SSSR, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Polart (Firm), and Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Ill.)

MEDIA 2-7618

Un nouveau russe Tycoon 2004, c2002

Catherine Dussart, Vladimir Grigor ev, Aleksandr Borodianskii, Pavel Lungin, IU. A Dubov, Vladimir Mashkov, Mariia Mironova, Andrei Krasko, Levan Uchaneishvili, Mikhail Vasserbaum, S IUshkevich, Aleksandr Samoilenko, Natal ia Koliakanova, IU. A Dubov, Magnat (Firm), Kominter (Firm), CDP (Firm), Kinokompaniia STV, Arte France cinéma (Firm), France 2 cinéma, Gimages Films, and New Yorker Video (Firm)

During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall. 1 videocassette (123 min.)

MEDIA 2-6642

Uvlechen ia c2000

Igor Kalenov, Kira Muratova, Svetlana Kolenda, Renata Litvinova, Mikhail Demidov, Boris Dediukhin, Komitet Rossiiskoi Federatsii po kinematografii, and Ruscico (Firm)

Bizarre, idiosyncratic characters are all connected to the world of horse racing where sporting intrigues interlace with love affairs. 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-318

Veselye rebiata muzykal naia kino-komediia = The world is laughing 1996

Grigorii Vasil evich Aleksandrov, Nikolai Robertovich Erdman, V Mass, Leonid Osipovich Utesov, Liubov Petrovna Orlova, Moskovskogo Kinokombinata, Polart (Firm), and Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Ill.)

A musical comedy which pits a whip-cracking, animal-herding, good-hearted rustic with a fine voice and a Pan-like effect on all who hear him against a so-called "finer" stratum of society. Leaving a trail of mirth and mayhem from the seaside to the Moscow theater world, our hero eventually finds harmony and lifelong melody with a pretty, tuneful serving girl. 1 videocassette (93 min.)

MEDIA 2-6644

Volga, Volga muzykal naia komedia = Wolga, Wolga c1996

Grigorii Vasil evich Aleksandrov, Nikolai Robertovich Erdman, Vladimir Nilsen, Igor Il inskii, Liubov Orlova, V Volodin, Moskovskaia kinostudiia "Mosfil m.", Polart (Firm), and Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Ill.)

Love story in which the boy and girl quarrel over whether his classical music performance or her folk music performance will win the Moscow amateur talent show. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-6392