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  1. 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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  2. I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) / Siberian Mammoth (2007)

    aka: Soy Cuba

    Director
    Mikhail Kalatozov; Vicente Farraz
    Subject
    Film studies; Politics & government; Spanish studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 230 minutes), £8.99

    A 2-disc set. Disc 1 : I AM CUBA, partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, The (2002 Film)

    aka: Padeniye Dinasti Romanovikh

    Director
    Esther Shub
    Subject
    FE; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £19.99

    This and its companion film THE GREAT WAY are remarkable examples of early historical compilation films. After painstaking research, with Shub examining each frame of available material, they were produced...

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  9. Mad Love: Three Films by Evgenii Bauer (2002)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 182 min), £19.99

    Three films made by the Russian pioneer Evgenii Bauer, highlighting his preoccupation with doomed love and death as well as his creative use of light and mastery of camera movement. He was one of Russia’s...

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  10. Michael Nyman’s Man with a Movie Camera (2002)

    Subject
    Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 min), £15.99 (inc)

    A montage of Moscow life showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. Dziga Vertov used all the cinematic techniques at his disposal - dissolves, split...

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