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Set in Moscow during the time of Stalin, several story-lines are intertwined. A writer (the Master) has produced a manuscript of a play about Pontius Pilate. It appears that government agents are intent on suppressing the manuscript. Paranoia sets in as the Master believes that not only the Devil himself is after him, but that his assistant Margarita is conspiring with the forces of evil. Paralleling this is the story of Yeshua and Pontius Pilate. Throughout, the evil Professor of Black Magic and his otherworldly group are manipulating public events and people's lives.

"In pre-revolutionary Moscow, Anna (The Cranes Are Flying's Cannes award-winning Tatiana Samoilova), a beautiful young aristocrat, languishes in a loveless marriage to Karenin, a powerful politician and highly visible public figure. When her brother Stiva invites scandal in an impetuous affair with his children's governess, Anna sympathizes with Stiva's faithful wife Dolly. But when Anna's head is turned by the dashing Count Vronsky (Vasili Lanovoy), she finds herself risking her marriage, her family, and her husband's career in pursuit of a romance as self-destructive as it is passionate. The suffocating hypocritical social order that imprisoned Anna in her marriage won't permit her to leave it without paying a tragic price"

Soon after being discharged from the Army, Danila runs afoul of the authorities. He goes to live with his brother, a gangster, in the free-wheeling city of Leningrad. Soon Danila is immersed in the city's organized crime scene.

Tells the story of four wildly disparate brothers in 19th century Tsarist Russia, who stand to gain an inheritance from their father, and together they weave a web of intrigue and murder.

A collection of Russian films made before the revolution, dating from 1908 to 1917.

Collection of 22 Soviet documentaries released in the "Glasnost Era" 1986-1988, which take a self-critical look at a country in transition.

In 1984, in provincial Russia, the daughter of a communist party regional secretary is kidnapped and abused by a police officer. Meanwhile there is a brutal murder nearby, and military corpses return from Afghanistan. Based on actual events, an unflinching portrait of the decline of the Soviet era.

After a stay in an asylum in Switzerland, an impoverished prince returns to St. Petersburg to a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. There, two women become rivals for his affection, leading to a tragic ending.

In a small coastal town in Russia lives an ordinary family: Kolya (Aleksey Serebryakov), his wife Lilya and their teenage son Roma. The family is haunted by a local corrupt mayor who is trying to take away Kolya's business, house and precious land. Kolya calls in an old friend, now an authoritative attorney, for help. Together they fight back and collect dirt on the mayor, but fate does not seem to be on Kolya's side.

A romantic comedy about three young, working-class, country girls, who go to Moscow in 1958 to seek work, men, and success. The story then jumps forward twenty years to look at the results of their expedition.

Living among humans are those who possess various supernatural powers. They are divided into the forces of light and the forces of the dark. Centuries ago both sides signed a treaty to end a war. Now the battle is about to happen again.

An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's legendary short story, Ward No. 6 chronicles one man's descent into madness. Dr. Ragin is the head doctor at a provincial insane asylum, where he daily interacts with the abandoned, the unloved and the forgotten. Lonely and isolated in his personal life, he finds solace in the long philosophical dialogues with his brilliant patient Gromov, which lead him to question the nature of his own existence. Updating the 1892 tale to the present day, the film is shot in a real mental institution on the outskirts of Moscow, and features interviews with actual patients. A powerful film, Ward No. 6 illuminates the writer's immortal genius for a new generation.

A romantic comedy that revolves around the serendipitous and unexpected romance between a young man and a young woman living in post-Soviet St. Petersburg: Masha, a DJ working for a popular St. Petersburg radio station, loses her cell phone which is found by Maksim, a promising young architect who has moved to St. Petersburg from Nizhny Novgorod and works part-time as a street sweeper. Each is at a crossroads in their lives: Masha is getting ready to marry her old schoolmate, Kostya, while Maksim has just won an international architecture competition and is preparing to move to Germany for a new job - but neither of them is sure this is the way they want their lives to be.

A titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic tome in which the fates of three souls: the blundering, good-hearted Pierre; the heroically tragic Prince Andrei; and the radiant, tempestuous Natasha, collide amid the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars. Employing a cast of thousands and an array of innovative camera techniques, the director conjures a sweeping vision of grand balls that glitter with rococo beauty and breathtaking battles that overwhelm with their expressionistic power.