Aleksandr kazantsev

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poster The Dying Swan
The Dying Swan
(3.6/5)
49mn - Drama
After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death genuinel…
poster Father Sergius
Father Sergius
(3.4/5)
112mn - History, Drama
The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a monk.
poster After Death
After Death
(3.4/5)
46mn - Drama
Young scholar Andrei, fascinated by haunting actress Zoia Kadmina, is surprised when she sends him a note. The two have a brief scheduled meeting, then three months later Andrei is shocked to learn she ha…
poster Kamarinskaja
Kamarinskaja
1mn - Documentary
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
poster Daydreams
Daydreams
(3.4/5)
37mn - Drama
Sergei’s beloved wife Yelena has passed away, and the bereaved husband is inconsolable. He remains obsessed with pictures of Yelena and with a braid of her hair that he has saved. One day, while walking i…
poster Polikushka
Polikushka
(3.5/5)
50mn - Drama
"Polikushka" was the only film directed by Aleksandr Sanin, one of Moscow Art Academic Theatre's founders, and is based on Lev Tolstoy's homonym short story. In spite the many differences between the lite…
poster The Last Tango
The Last Tango
(2.8/5)
10mn - Drama, Romance
The film is based on the words of a song performed by Iza Kremer in Odessa.
poster Hearts in Exile
Hearts in Exile
(2.8/5)
59mn - Drama, History, Romance
In Czarist Russia, attractive Anna Ivanovna has consecrated her life to work among Russia's persecuted poor. She dispenses food, medicine, and funds to the needy, from a busy charity headquarters. Two men…
poster Forbidden Paradise
Forbidden Paradise
(3.3/5)
76mn - Comedy, Romance
Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirators and is rewarded with her love. Infatuated, he deserts his sweetheart, Anna, the Czarina's lady-in-wai…
poster Morozko
Morozko
(3.9/5)
40mn - Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Based on the Russian fairy tale Father Frost.
poster Resurrection
Resurrection
15mn - Drama
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to cri…
poster The Beilis Case
The Beilis Case
(2.9/5)
0mn - Drama, Crime
Ukrainian silent courtroom drama about the trial on charges of Menachem Mendel Beilis in the ritual murder of 12-year-old Andrey Yushchinsky. Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Ukrainian Jew accused of ritual mu…
poster Felix All Puzzled
Felix All Puzzled
(3.1/5)
4mn - Animation
Felix is hungry, but his owner won't feed him until he's finished his crossword puzzle! Only one word left -- a 7-letter "chiefly found in Russia." Felix goes all the way to Russia to find the answer, but…
poster Stalker
Stalker
(4.1/5)
162mn - Sci-Fi, Drama
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specif…
poster The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata
(2.9/5)
42mn - Drama
The Kreutzer Sonata is based on a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of je…
poster Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible
Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible
(3.5/5)
42mn - Drama, History
This film was a true peculiarity, a filmed version of the great Feodor Chaliapin in one of his most famous roles; the fact that it was a silent film, with title cards, meant that audiences could only appr…
poster A Revolutionary
A Revolutionary
(3/5)
36mn - Drama
In 1907, the Russian authorities learn that a revolutionary known as 'Granddad' is living in hiding with his brother. The revolutionary is soon arrested and sent to Siberia. After ten years of struggling …
poster Princess Tarakanova
Princess Tarakanova
19mn - Drama, History
Russia, 1775. Count Orlov writes a letter to Empress Catherine II the Great in which he denounces Princess Tarakanova as a traitor and pretender to the throne.
poster Boyar Orsha
Boyar Orsha
9mn - History, Drama
Based on Lermontov's poem of the same name, Boyar Orsha (Peter Chardynin) leaves the service of Ivan the Terrible.
poster The Ballet Master's Dream
The Ballet Master's Dream
2mn - Comedy, Fantasy
It's late in the evening, and the ballet master's bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and instead of going to sleep he paces the floor and tries out dance steps. Fi…
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