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Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998)

Director

Aleksey German

Subject

Russian studies; Social Studies

Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin’s hands. A military surgeon, General Yuri Georgievich Klensky, finds himself a target of the ‘Doctors’ Plot’: the anti-Semitic...

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Three Documentaries by Sergei Loznitsa: Blockade, Landscape, Revue (2013)

aka: 3 Documentaries by Sergei Loznitsa: Blockade, Landscape, Revue

Director

Sergei Loznitsa

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL)

Three documentaries by Russian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa. Includes; BLOCKADE, LANDSCAPE and REVUE. In BLOCKADE, Loznitsa draws on three-and-a-half hours of silent footage acquired from the St. Petersburg...

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Idiot, The (2005)

Subject

Literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 166 minutes), £19.99

Kurosawa’s only adaptation of a Dostoevsky novel. His dramatisation uproots the novel’s Russian summer setting to a snowbound Hokkaido — the northernmost island of Japan. DVD extras: newly restored...

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Soviet Courts of Justice (1980 Film)

Subject

Law; Russian studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses courts of lustice in the Soviet Union. Includes a court sequence dealing with a road accident and an interview with the Minister of Justice. The election of judges and people’s assessors is also...

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Andrei Rublev (1969 Video)

aka: Andrei Rublyov

Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Producer

Tamara Ogorodnikova

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Portrays the social and political upheavals of 15th century Russia through the life and experiences of icon painter Andrei Rublev. Shelved by the Soviet authorities and not seen until 1971.

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Ivan the Terrible (2 Parts) (1945 Film, Video)

aka: Ivan Groznyj

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

1 (1944): Story of Tsar Ivan IV - Ivan the Terrible. Begins with his crowning as Tsar of Russia, follows his struggle to consolidate the Russian Empire, freeing it from Eastern domination, through his...

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October (1928)

aka: Sergei Eisenstein’s October

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Subject

History; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes), £24.99

Eisenstein’s feature film was reissued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Revolution which it reconstructs. Original negatives from the world’s film archives were collected to present a print which...

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Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola (2005)

Subject

Music; Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 75 minutes), £16.99

Banned in the USSR until 1985, Sonata for Viola documents the life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. In addition to being a portrait of a musical genius, the film bears witness to the joy of modern...

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Moscow Elegy - Alexander Sokurov (2007)

aka: Moskovskaya Elegiya

Director

Alexander Sokurov

Subject

Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £24.99

Originally intended to mark the 50th birthday of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. However, disagreements within the Soviet Professional Union of Cinematographers about the style and content of the film...

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Nameless Star, A (2003)

aka: Bezymyannaya Zvezda

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 130 minutes), $25.00

Based on the 1943 stage play, "Steaua Fara Nume" by Romanian Jewish writer Iosef Hechter, writing under the pen name Mihail Sebastian (1907-1945). This version was made for television in 1978, but there was...

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