Esenin (2005)

Actors: Yuriy Kutsenko (actor), Andrey Krasko (actor), Gary Busey (actor), Oleg Tabakov (actor), Valentina Telichkina (actress), Roman Madyanov (actor), Andrei Tolubeyev (actor), Sean Young (actress), Pyotr Merkurev (actor), Vladimir Valutskiy (writer), Tatyana Lyutaeva (actress), Aleksandr Mikhaylov (actor), Konstantin Ernst (producer), Nikolay Olyalin (actor), Konstantin Khabenskiy (actor),

Plot: After policeman Aleksandr Hlystov receives an old photo of poet Esenin's dead body just taken out of a loop he immediately begins an investigation, not an official one, but he tries to solve the mystery by himself. The more he learns about Esenin's life and death, the weirder the case gets...

Keywords: tv-mini-series
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,

Deti Arbata (2004)

Actors: Andrey Smolyakov (actor), Roman Madyanov (actor), Emmanuil Vitorgan (actor), Tatyana Kravchenko (actress), Konstantin Ernst (producer), Yevgeniya Simonova (actress), Nikolay Chindyaykin (actor), Valentin Chernykh (writer), Vladimir Simonov (actor), Chulpan Khamatova (actress), Vadim Andreev (actor), Viktoriya Tolstoganova (actress), Yuriy Kolokolnikov (actor), Vyacheslav Baranov (actor), Sergey Yushkevich (actor),

Plot: Based on the trilogy of books by Anatoly Rybakov: "Deti Arbata", "Strakh", and "Prach I Pepel". The events circle the 1930's to 1940's. The film leads the viewer into the Kremlin offices, communal flats, university lecture halls and even into prison cells. The viewer also gets to feel what various aspects of life felt like, including Siberian village life, life in various Russian provinces and the tragic events of the breakout of World War II. The story's heroes are the simple lads and girls of the Moscow Arbat and the high-ranking powers: Stalin and his colleagues, workers, head's of scientific institutions and large contractors. The film lets you feel what life was like for these people, their lives and work and the enormous influence of war on the fate of the people.

Keywords: based-on-novel, josef-stalin, love, moscow-russia, romeo-and-juliet, soviet-union, street-in-title
Genres: Drama, Romance, War,
Taglines: "Romeo i Dzhul'etta" sovetskikh vremen. (The "Romeo and Juliet" of Soviet times.)

Red Hot (1993)

Actors: Balthazar Getty (actor), Hugh O'Conor (actor), Lonnie Ramati (miscellaneous crew), Carla Gugino (actress), Armin Mueller-Stahl (actor), Paul Haggis (director), Paul Haggis (writer), Nick Rotundo (editor), Tony Plana (actor), Donald Sutherland (actor), Jan Niklas (actor), Nicolas Stiliadis (producer), Peter Breiner (composer), Denis Lill (actor), Peter Woodthorpe (actor),

Plot: In the 1950's rock and roll becomes very popular around the world. But in Russia, that kind of music is banned. Only, Alexi, a teenager with great musical talent, receives from his travel ling uncle rock records and his friend decides to make copies to sell on the black market. Alexi falls in love with the daughter of an important minister to the Russian government. The records soon become a national threat and the KGB does not appreciate.

Keywords: 1950s, independent-film, rock-'n'-roll, russia
Genres: Drama, Music,
Taglines: The sound of freedom. Back in the USSR, they are rock rebels with a cause.

Stalin (1992)

Actors: Jeroen Krabbé (actor), Lev Prygunov (actor), Roshan Seth (actor), Evgeniy Lazarev (actor), Robert Duvall (actor), Kevin McNally (actor), Maximilian Schell (actor), Vsevolod Larionov (actor), András Bálint (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), Aleksandr Feklistov (actor), Jim Carter (actor), Frank Finlay (actor), Miriam Margolyes (actress), Oleg Tabakov (actor),

Plot: Josef Stalin rises from his rejection as being physically unfit in the Czar's army during world War I to undisputed head of the huge Soviet empire of the 1950s. After the success of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 he vies with arch-rival Leon Trotsky for power under the acknowledged leader, Vladimir Lenin. After Lenin's stroke, the merciless Georgian's ruthless methods soon eliminates all rivals and his cruel paranoia and overt sadism help him maintain power by eliminating every possible rival including many former comrades.

Keywords: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, anti-semite, archive-footage, ballet-dancer, banquet, betrayal
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,

Quotes:

Kamenev: We were promised our lives.::Beria: Comrade Stalin has revoked his promise.

Stalin: You think I don't know? Stalin knows. I know what you say, what you do, who you screw. I know everything about you.

Nikita Khrushchev: Have you thought about it? About what we said after Stalin dies?::Vyacheslav Molotov: Like what?::Nikita Khrushchev: His crimes?::Vyacheslav Molotov: What crimes?::Nikita Khrushchev: Millions...::Vyacheslav Molotov: Nikita, you are too emotional. You talk too much. Who are we to judge Stalin. Before him we were a weak, backward country, Now look at us. We control half of Europe... the whole of China... We have the atomic bomb... We command respect. Without Stalin, it would have take twenty years longer.::Vyacheslav Molotov: I don't be;ieve it. Without the purges, the arrests, the killings... without Stalin, we could have been a great country.::Vyacheslav Molotov: Our history required Stalin.

Dr. Lukomsky: [Referring to Stalin, who's on his deathbed] Hemorrhage on his brain... He can't breathe.::Beria: [vindictively] Let him die - murdering bastard.::Beria: [the dying Stalin chuckles and it appears he's regaining consciousness, so Beria panics and begins kissing Stalin's hand] Forgive me... forgive me... forgive me... [Stalin goes back into his coma, and Beria feels safe, so he spits on the floor in contempt]

Stalin: Hitler will go the way of Napoleon... to defeat, to despair, and to his death.

Olga Alliluyeva: [to Stalin about Sergei] He died of silence. He didn't die of cancer.

Svetlana 12: [Referring to her pet fox] Why won't he come to me?::Nikolai Bukharin: A fox has a mind of his own... even a red fox.

Nikolai Bukharin: [about Stalin] The mass conspirator accuses everyone else of conspiracy.

Svetlana Alliluyeva: [as narrator] Nadia thought Stalin was going to change Russia... [ironically] She was right.

Vladimir Lenin: No brutality should be allowed although no revolution is possible without terror.

Zabravete tozi sluchay (1985)

Actors: Kiril Donchev (composer), Tzvetana Maneva (actress), Valcho Kamarashev (actor), Boris Lukanov (actor), Vladimir Davcev (actor), Stefan Ilyev (actor), Tzvetana Kolarova (miscellaneous crew), Filip Trifonov (actor), Ivan Nestorov (actor), Meglena Karalambova (actress), Dorotea Toncheva (actress), Yuriy Yakovlev (actor), Toma Shivachev (miscellaneous crew), Georgi Danailov (writer), Dimitr Marin (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Paytyun kesgisherits heto (1969)

Actors: Emmanuil Geller (actor), Irina Murzayeva (actress), Valentin Bryleev (actor), Frunze Mkrtchyan (actor), Vladimir Kenigson (actor), Yuri Leonidov (actor), Vladimir Belokurov (actor), Gurgen Tonunts (actor), Sergei Golovanov (actor), Vladimir Gulyaev (actor), Boris Bityukov (actor), Tamara Nosova (actress), Avet Avetisyan (actor), Leonid Chubarov (actor), Nina Alisova (actress),

Genres: Action, Drama,

Utro nad Rodinata (1951)

Actors: Georgi Kaloyanchev (actor), Rangel Vulchanov (actor), Georgi Georgiev-Getz (actor), Dimitar Bochev (actor), Apostol Karamitev (actor), Ivan Stefanov (actor), Lubomir Kabakchiyev (actor), Anton Marinovich (director), Zhana Stoyanovich (actress), Ivan Tonev (actor), Katya Dineva (actress), Yordan Matev (actor), Neycho Popov (actor), Mariya Rusalieva (actress), Stefan Surchadzhiev (director),

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