The play written down by Al. Voznesensky for the stage, not in vain called by the author "drama without words", because its plot, indeed, does not require "words", although they had to be introduced in small quantities when the play was adapted for the screen.
Вера Юренева
Иван Берсенев
Alexander Barov
N. Pomerantsev
The play written down by Al. Voznesensky for the stage, not in vain called by the author "drama without words", because its plot, indeed, does not require "words", although they had to be introduced in small quantities when the play was adapted for the screen.
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.
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls away. Now they must make their way through the thick of nature and thick gunfire to accomplish their mission. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout the entire film. Instead, the music, sounds, images and deeply truthful acting turn a simple plot into an intense experience. Passion and intrigue keep building to the very end.
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.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.
เกี่ยวกับนักโทษคนหนึ่งชื่อรัสส์ มิลลิงส์ ซึ่งเพิ่งได้รับการปล่อยตัวจากคุกหลังจากรับโทษจำคุก 20 ปีในข้อหาครอบครองกัญชาหนึ่งออนซ์ โลกภายนอกเปลี่ยนแปลงไปจนเขาจำไม่ได้ ดูเหมือนมองผ่านกระจกและเคลื่อนไหวด้วยความเร็วที่แตกต่างออกไป เขาทำหน้าที่ของตนอย่างขยันขันแข็ง แต่การติดต่อกับมนุษย์เป็นแนวคิดที่ลืมเลือนและน่ากลัวสำหรับเขา เขายังคงได้รับการพักโทษและทำงานในร้านเบอร์เกอร์ คืนหนึ่งเขาพบทารกที่ถูกทิ้งในถังขยะ รัสส์ไม่แน่ใจว่าจะทำอย่างไรดี และติดอยู่ท่ามกลางความรักและความตื่นตระหนก รัสส์เริ่ม "ละลาย" ในที่สุดเขาก็พบความเชื่อมโยงกับมนุษย์อีกคน - และตัวเขาเอง ผ่านทารกที่หลงทาง ถูกขับไล่ และไม่รู้เรื่องเกี่ยวกับโลกที่อยู่รอบตัวเธอ - เช่นเดียวกับเขา เขากล้าที่จะออกจากเปลือกอารมณ์ของตัวเองและออกเดินทางเพื่อย้อนรอยตัวตนในอดีตของเขาจากช่วงเวลาอันไกลโพ้น "ก่อนหน้า" เมื่อเขาเป็นรัสกี้: บุคคล ลูกชาย ผู้ชาย ไม่ใช่ผู้ใต้ปกครอง