The Return of Nathan Becker
A bricklayer of Jewish ancestry leaves capitalist America during the Depression for the promise of Soviet Russia.
A bricklayer of Jewish ancestry leaves capitalist America during the Depression for the promise of Soviet Russia.
David Gutman
Nathan Becker
Solomon Mikhoels
Tsale Becker
Yelena Kashnitskaya
Meyka
Kador Ben-Salim
Jim
Boris Babochkin
Mikulich
Anna Zarzhitskaya
Nata
Viktor Yablonskiy
Foreman
Leonid Kmit
Builder (uncredited)
Erna Mashkevich
Lady at the circus (uncredited)
A bricklayer of Jewish ancestry leaves capitalist America during the Depression for the promise of Soviet Russia.
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day.
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.
A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital.
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.
Soviet Georgia, 1983. Preparations for Nika and Ana's wedding are in full swing and it's a big day for both of their elite families. For the newlyweds and their friends, however, the celebrations are in fact part of a cover-up, as they plot an audacious escape from the Soviet Union.
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.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team.
Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with disturbing stories about his younger days in the Army. After next picking up a young woman who works as a prostitute and is wary of the territory, Georgy finds himself lost, and despite asking some homeless men for help, he’s less sure than he was before of how to make his way back where he belongs. As brutal images of violence and alienation cross the screen, Georgy’s odyssey becomes darker and more desperate until it reaches an unexpected conclusion.