Top Cast
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Aleksandr Chutko
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Ihor Vietrov
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Alexandr Kochubey
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Georgiy Dronov
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Boris Rabey
Overview
Based on the short story of the same name by N. Lavrov. The story is inspired by real events that took place in early 20th-century Saint Petersburg.
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Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
The End of St. Petersburg
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The Coach
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
Girl in the Box
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.
An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano
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Flights in Dreams and in Reality
The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring the General's disabled daughter Vera. Viktor is oblivious to the hidden agenda of the KGB agent Saveliev, who manipulates everyone behind the scenes in the old rivalry between the Army and KGB.
A Driver for Vera
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
The Young One
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Skin
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..
Fatima
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.