14+ (2015)

AKA:
German  >> 14+ Erste Liebesgeschichte
French >> 14 ans premier amour
English >> 14 plus (First Love)


Synopsis:
Alex becomes infatuated with Vika without her knowing. What happens when he plucks up the courage to show his feelings?

Starring:
Gleb Kalyuzhny
Ulyana Vaskovich
Olga Ozollapinya

Director: Andrey Zaytsev

Absurdistan (2008)

Synopsis:
An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love.

Starring:
Max Mauff
Kristýna Podzimková
Nino Chkheidze

Director: Veit Helmer

Purple Sunset (2001)

AKA:
Ziri
紫日

Synopsis:
A Soviet Russian lady officer, a Chinese peasant and a Japanese schoolgirl must walk their way out of a forest toward the end of World War II, despite their mutual distrust of one another.

Starring:
Anna Dzenilalova
Eddie Eagle
Dalong Fu

Director: Xiaoning Feng

Stalnaya babochka (2012)

AKA:
Стальная бабочка
Steel Butterfly

Synopsis:
I rarely watch Russian movies and was also quite skeptical about this one. I was proved wrong. I liked the movie pace - not action after action and not too many philosophical dialogs at the same time. I liked the way a story was portrayed - quite realistic homeless children and cops (maybe just a bit sweeter and nicer than real Russian police). Despite the fact that it was marked as 16+, I was pleased that there were no abusive or over the limit scenes - enough to intrigue and enough not to distract spectators focus from the main idea. I had teary eyes at the end - through our life we constantly have to make choices and face their consequences.

Starring:
Darya Melnikova
Anatoliy Belyy
Darya Moroz

Director: Renat Davletyarov

Tainoe i Javnoe ()

Belarusian Dream (2011)

Synopsis:
Belarusian Dream, an award-winning film, is the story of a young person from Minsk who has lived most of his life in a country ruled by a dictator. Against the background of falsified elections, brutal repressions, and a severe economic crisis, it shows how more people in the most 'stable' post-Soviet country are starting to demand change. This is a story about how the regime can crush a person, and how you can find your own freedom in a state that possesses total contol.

Belarusian Dream is the first independent documentary film to look at what has happened in Belarus since the 2010 presidential elections. Directed by Ekaterina Kibalchich, born in 1982 in Minsk; laureate of the 'Zolotoe Pero' award from the Russian Journalism Union.

Belarusian Dream won the viewer's award at the 2011 International Human Rights Film festival ''WatchDocs.

Mama Illegal (2011)

Synopsis:
They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.

 Director: Ed Moschitz 

Secrets of Cold War: Brezhnev's Kremlin ()

The Vladimir Putin System ()

AKA:
The Putin System 

Synopsis:
CBC's "The Passionate Eye" presents The Putin System - a point-of-view documentary that presents an ominous view of what Putin is willing to do to ensure Russia regains its position on the world stage.

The Putin System chronicles the remarkable life of Putin, a tough, young leader who is not afraid to make harsh decisions and holds a secret purpose-to restore the old Russia of his dreams.

The Putin System is directed by Jean-Michel Carré in association with Jill Emery for the French production company Les Films Grain De Sable.

Directors: Jean-Michel Carré, Jill Emery

Big Bang in Tunguska ()

AKA:
A.D. 1908 Big Bang in Tunguska

Synopsis:
The Tunguska event, or Tunguska blast or Tunguska explosion, was an enormously powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at about 7:14 a.m. KRAT (0:14 UT) on June 30 [O.S. June 17, 1908.
The explosion is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5--10 kilometres (3--6 mi) above the Earth's surface. Different studies have yielded varying estimates of the object's size, with general agreement that it was a few tens of metres across.
The number of scholarly publications on the problem of the Tunguska explosion since 1908 may be estimated at about 1,000 (mainly in Russian). Many scientists have participated in Tunguska studies, the best-known of them being Leonid Kulik, Yevgeny Krinov, Kirill Florensky, Nikolai Vladimirovich Vasiliev and Wilhelm Fast.
Although the meteoroid or comet burst in the air rather than hitting the surface, this event is still referred to as an impact. Estimates of the energy of the blast range from 5 to as high as 30 megatons of TNT (21--130 PJ), with 10--15 megatons of TNT (42--63 PJ) the most likely—roughly equal to the United States' Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb tested on March 1, 1954, about 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, and about one-third the power of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. The explosion knocked over an estimated 80 million trees covering 2,150 square kilometres (830 sq mi). It is estimated that the shock wave from the blast would have measured 5.0 on the Richter scale. An explosion of this magnitude is capable of destroying a large metropolitan area. This possibility has helped to spark discussion of asteroid deflection strategies.
The Tunguska event is the largest impact event over land in Earth's recent history. Impacts of similar size over remote ocean areas would most likely have gone unnoticed before the advent of global satellite monitoring in the 1960s and 1970s

The Saint (1997)

Synopsis:
The Saint is a 1997 film espionage thriller, starring Val Kilmer in the title role, with Elisabeth Shue and Rade Šerbedžija, directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick. The title character is a high tech thief and master of disguise, that becomes the anti-hero while using the moniker of various saints while paradoxically living in the underworld of international industrial theft. The film has a cult following and was a financial success with a worldwide box office of $169.4 million, rentals of $28.2 million, and continuous dvd sales.

Starring:
Val Kilmer

Inside Rebel Territory - Chechnya ()

Synopsis:
How will the killing of Aslan Maskhadov affect fighting in Chechnya? As images of Maskhadov's body circulate, we bring back the last ever interview Maskhadov recorded.

Das Mädchen mit den Röntgenaugen ()

AKA:
The Girl with the X-Ray

Mirror (1975)

AKA:
Зеркало >> Russian
Zerkalo >> Russian

Synopsis:
This cinematic expression of the author’s reflections is one of the best films of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. Its working title was “White, White Day”. Quoted in the film are some of the verses by the remarkable poet Arseny Tarkovsky, the director’s father. The film’s protagonist reminisces about his childhood, his mother who raised him, the people who helped his family in the trying post-war years. "In ‘Mirror’ I wanted to tell not about myself, but about my feelings, connected with the people that were close to me, about my relations with them, about my eternal compassion for them and the unrealizable sense of duty," said Andrei Tarkovsky.

Starring:
Margarita Terekhova
Filipp Yankovsky
Ignat Daniltsev

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky / Andrey Tarkovskiy

Russian-Chechen War ()

AKA:
Russian Chechen War Documenary

Lucky: No Time For Love (2005)

AKA:
Lucky

Synopsis:
Lucky Negi (Sneha Ullal) is the quintessential dreamer, soft, beautiful and gentle. Her one big belief, that if you search from the bottom of your heart then you can find the rainbow, not just the rainbow but also the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. One calm "Petersbergian" morning Lucky's riding to school and calling on all her guardian angels to grant her a miracle, a tweeny weeny, itsy bitsy one putting it in her words, "Please God I wish from the bottom of my heart that school is shut today".
But sometimes our deepest wish can turn into our worst nightmare and that is what happens with Lucky. Her journey to school becomes her most desperate journey of survival. Caught unawares by an unexpected wave of insurgency in Eastern Europe, Lucky tries to flee to safety. As the dread and fear overtake she meets a stranger, a fellow countryman Aditya Sekhri (Salman Khan). Aditya is smart, wicked, witty, charming and true blue sophisticate.
Then begins an unforgettable journey from highways and moldy cemeteries to abandoned theaters and icy snowdrifts. A journey where violence and tragedy stalk them constantly and where there is little time for talk and survival comes only from being constantly at guard. As they march through savage ambushes and the icy wilderness of a foreign land, they discover the limits of their endurance, and more importantly love.

Tracks:
1 Chori Chori (Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik)
2 Jaan Meri Ja Rahi Hai Sanam (Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal)
3 Sun Zara (Sonu Nigam)
4 Lucky Lips (Asha Bhosle)
5 Shayad Yahi To Pyar Hai (Adnan Sami, Lata Mangeshkar)
6 Sun Zara (Ver.2) (Adnan Sami)
7 Hum Deewane (Sonu Nigam, Anuradha Paudwal)
8 Lucky Lips (Bulsoi Mix) (Asha Bhosle)
9 Sun Zara (Instrumental)

Starring:
Salman Khan ... Aditya "Adi" Sekhri
Sneha Ullal ... Lucky Negi
Mithun Chakraborty ... Retd. Colonel Pindi Das Kapoor
Kader Khan ... Doctor
Navni Parihar ... Anjali Negi
Ravi Baswani ... Mr. Negi
Priyanka Shinoy ... Dhara Negi
Vikram Gokhale ... Ambassador Sekhri
Mumaith Khan ... Sunaina

Directors: Radhika Rao & Vinay Sapru

The Mechanik (2005)

AKA:
The Mechanic

Synopsis:

Spetnaz (Special Ops) veteran Nick Cherenko leaves Russia after his son and wife are killed in a gunfight by drug lord Aleksandr 'Sasha' Popov's mob men. He's threatened with exposure as illegal car mechanic in L.A. by a fellow ex-pat tycoon who offers him $500,000 to liberate her kidnapped daughter. He only takes the job when told the capturers are Sasha's goons again. The mission's long path to find the girl and escape over the Finnish border, where his team is to be paid, is littered with blood and corpses.

Starring:
Dolph Lundgren
Ben Cross
Ivan Petrushinov

Director: Dolph Lundgren

Gypsies are found near heaven (1976)

AKA:
Queen of the Gypsies
Табор уходит в небо
Tabor ukhodit v nebo
The gypsy camp goes to heaven

Synopsis:
This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Starring:
Grigore Grigoriu
Svetlana Toma
Barasbi Mulayev

Director: Emil Loteanu

The Lost World of Communism ()

AKA:
Изгубеният свят на комунизма
A Socialist Paradise

Svinki (2009)

AKA:
Świnki
Swinki

Synopsis:
The history of the teenager who is no different from hundreds of the same boys living in the border town close to Germany. Once he reveals the secret of his school friend of Dark - he and other teenagers are sold to the Germans, engaging in child prostitution. In Tomek is a girl - Martha, and to fulfill her dreams and whims, Tomek is trying to make money. However, quickly realizes that in his border town is the only way to make money - is to go in the footsteps of the Dark ... In slang, "pig" - children from the border areas of western Poland, who sell themselves to foreigners for money and different things - electronic gadgets, clothes .