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  1. Crime and Punishment (2013)

    aka: Prestuplenie I Nakazanie

    Director
    Lev Kulidzhanov
    Subject
    Languages; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 221 minutes), £24.99

    1969 film adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel. The Ruscico DVD release is a three disc set which includes the fifty minute on-set documentary A FEW DAYS OF ONE FILM. The release includes English language...

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  2. 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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  3. Khodorkovsky (2012)

    Director
    Cyril Tuschi
    Subject
    Politics & government; Russian studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £17.99

    Documentary about the rise and fall of former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who shot to the upper echelons of Russia’s wealthy elite before being imprisoned. Though Khodorkovsky was officially...

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  4. Soviet Propaganda Animation (2 Volumes) (2007)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £14.99

    This collection of animated propaganda was recently recovered from Russia’s television vaults. For the first time in ninety years the West can now see how the Soviets portrayed them. This unique...

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  5. Palms (2007)

    aka: Ladoni

    Director
    Artur Aristakisyan
    Subject
    Film studies; Russian studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 140 minutes), £12.00

    PALMS is Aristakisyan’s astonishing portrait of people who live outside ‘society’ and exist on the margins of life, filmed on the streets of his hometown in Moldova. Narrated by the director,...

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  6. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2007 Video)

    Director
    Martin Kusej
    Subject
    Music

    Shostakovich’s four-act opera with Eva-Maria Westbroek in the title role. The Nederlandse Opera and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra are conducted by Mariss Jansons.

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  7. Shexpiru I ne Snilos (2007 Film)

    aka: Shakespeare Could Never Imagine

    Director
    Alexei Zernov

    Musical comedy. After a failed attempt at robbery, a gang of swindlers decide to pose as old Russian vaudevilles. A provincial town awaits the arrival of a touring troupe of famous actors. The swindlers...

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  8. War and Peace (1967) (2006)

    Director
    Sergei Bondarchuk
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 431 minutes), £19.99

    An epic Russian version of Tolstoy’s classic tale.with a cast of thousands, stupendous sets and backgrounds, grand balls and palaces all adding to the authenticity. DVD extras include interviews with...

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  9. Izobrazhaya Zhertvu (2006 Film)

    aka: Playing the Victim

    Director
    Kirill Serebrennikov
    Producer
    Natalya Mokritskaya; Leonid Zagalsky; Lyudmila Savelyeva

    Feature film. Black comedy, the sub-plot offering a loose adaptation of Hamlet. Tells the story of a university graduate, Valya (Chursin) who impersonates victims in crime-scene reconstructions. Valya feels...

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  10. Izobrazhaya Zhertvu (2006 Film)

    aka: Playing the Victim

    Director
    Kirill Serebrennikov
    Producer
    Leonid Zagalsky; Ulyana Savelyeva; Natalya Mokritskaya
    Distribution
    No distributor known (3/2010)

    Feature film. A black comedy made as a modern-day adaptation of Hamlet. Valya, a university graduate, makes a living impersonating victims in crime-scene reconstructions. He is also haunted by the ghost of...

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