The first Russian talking picture which won a prize at the 1st Venice IFF. The action is set in 1923. The USSR is struggling with hunger and economic ruin. It is a story of homeless teenagers for whom a work commune is set up with the idea of uniting and reforming them.
Николай Баталов
Николай Иванович Сергеев, организатор трудовой коммуны
Йыван Кырля
Мустафа «Ферт»
Михаил Жаров
Фомка «Жиган»
Владимир Уральский
Head of children allocation (uncredited)
Рина Зелёная
девушка из «малины» Жигана
Георгий Жжёнов
(нет в титрах)
Василий Качалов
вступительное и заключительное слово
Александр Новиков
Васька «Буза»
Мария Антропова
детский соц.инспектор Мария Скрябина
The first Russian talking picture which won a prize at the 1st Venice IFF. The action is set in 1923. The USSR is struggling with hunger and economic ruin. It is a story of homeless teenagers for whom a work commune is set up with the idea of uniting and reforming them.
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
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.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
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.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
คอรี่ แบรนด์ นักเบสบอลดาวดัง รู้วิธีที่จะเอาชนะ ในเกมใหญ่ แต่นอกสนาม ความทรงจำในอดีต ที่คอยรังควาน ทำให้ชีวิตของเขา ต้องเสียศูนย์ หลังจากอุบัติเหตุ เมาแล้วขับ จนถูกทีมสั่งพัก ผู้จัดการของคอรี่ จึงส่งเขากลับไป ยังเมืองบ้านเกิด ในชนบท โดยให้เป็นโค้ชกับ ทีมเยาวชนใน โปรแกรมฟื้นฟูจิตใจ เป็นเวลา 8 สัปดาห์ และโอกาสครั้งที่สอง นี้เอง ทำให้คอรี่ ได้พบ การเปลี่ยนแปลง และไถ่ถอน ความผิดในใจ ในแบบที่เขา เองก็คาดไม่ถึง สร้างจากเรื่องจริง ที่เกิดขึ้น หลากหลาย จนกลายมาเป็น ภาพยนตร์ทรงพลัง และย้ำเตือนว่า ไม่มีคำว่าสาย สำหรับการ เปลี่ยนแปลง