Russian
and Eurasian Films at MHC
Drama
The following films are
all in the MHC library, except for the opera, which are at the music
library in Pratt. Unless otherwise noted, they are all on video
and all have English subtitles.
- Adam's
rib (Rebro
Adama) (1992)
- Alexander
Nevsky (1938)
- Andrei
Rublev (1966)
- The Ascent
(Voskhozhdenie) (1976)
- Ballad
of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate) (1958)
- The
Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potemkin) (1925)
- Beginnings
- Brief
encounters (Korotkie vstrechi) (1990)
- Brother
(Brat) (1997)
- Brother
2 (Brat 2) (1999)
- Burnt
by the sun (Utomlennye solntsem)(1994)
- By the
law, Chess fever (1926)
- A chef
in love (1996)
- Chapayev
(1934)
- Chekist
(1992)
- The Cherry
Orchard (Vishnevyi sad) (1994)
- The Cranes
are Flying (Letiat zhuravli) (1957)
- Dersu
Uzala (1974)
- The Deserter
(1933)
- Don Quixote
(Don Kikhot) (1957)
- The End
of an era (1917)
- The End
of St. Petersburg (Konets Sankt-Peterburga) (1927)
- Europe,
Europe (Evropa Evropa) (1992)
- Evgenii
Bauer (1992)
- The Extraordinary
Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Neobychainye
prikliucheniia Mistera Vesta v strane Bolshevikov) (1924)
- Father
Sergius (Otets Sergii) (1978)
- Five evenings
(Piat vecherov) (198?)
- Freeze,
die, come to life (Zamri, umri, voskresni) (1989)
- The Girl
with the Box (Devushka s korobkoi) (1927)
- The Gorky
trilogy (1938-1940)
- A hundred
days before the order (100 dnei do prikaza) (2000)
- His personal
life (Chastnaia zhizn) (1987)
- I am Cuba
(IA—Kuba) (1964)
- Iakov
Protazanov (1916), The departure of a great old man
(1912), The queen of spades (1916)
- Incident
at Map Grip 36-80 (Sluchai v kvadrate 36-80) (1983)
- Ivan The
Terrible (Ivan Groznyi) (1944)
- Ivan's
childhood (Ivanovo detstvo) (1963)
- King Lear
(Korol Lir) (1980)
- Kino-eye
(Kino-glaz) (1924)
- Lady Macbeth
of the Mtsensk Region (Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda) (1989)
- Little
Vera (Malen’kaia Vera) (1988)
- Luna Park
(1991)
- Man with
a Movie Camera (Chelovek s kino-apparatom) (1929)
- The Mirror
(Zerkalo) (1974)
- Mother
(Mat') (1926)
- Oblomov
(1981)
- October
(Oktiabr’) (1928)
- Of freaks
and men (Pro urodov i liudei) (1998)
- The overcoat
(Shinel’) (1968)
- The planet
of storms (1962)
- Prisoner
of the mountains (Kavkazskii plennik) (1996)
- Provincial
variations (Early Russian Cinema, vol. 4)
- Repentance
(Pokoianie) (1987)
- The Road
to Life (Putyovka v zhizn) (1931)
- Scarecrow
(Chuchelo) (1985)
- The Seagull
(Chaika) (1970)
- The Second
circle (Krug vtoroi) (1990)
- Siberiade
(1979)
- Sidewhiskers
(Bakenbardy) (1990)
- Sisters
(Sestry) (2001)
- Solaris
(1971)
- Strike
(1925)
- Starewicz's
fantasies (1992)
- A Summer
to Remember (Seryozha) (1961)
- The Thief
(Vor) (1998)
- Three
songs about Lenin (Tri pesni o Lenine) (1934)
- Thunder
over Mexico (Que viva Mexico) (1931-2)
- The War
(Voina) (2002)
- War and
peace (Voina i mir) (1967)
- White
sun of the desert (Beloe solntse pustyn) (198?)
Adam's
rib (Rebro Adama) (1992)
PN1997 .R425 1994
Director: Vyacheslav Krishtofovich
Cast: Inna Churikova, Svetlana Ryabova, Maria Golubkina, Elena Bogdanov
Based on the novel Babii dom by A. Kukrchatkin. Three generations
of women share a small, crowded apartment with Nina at the center
of it all. Twice married and divorced, with two sexually active
daughters, one from each failed marriage, she is also at the beck
and call of her mute mother who rings her bedside bell whenever
she craves attention. Trying to cope with the men that exist in
their lives and the troubles they bring, forms the cornerstone of
this bittersweet, comic film.
In Russian language with yellow English subtitles.
(77 min.)
Andrei
Rublev (1966)
PN1997 .A495 1992 pt. 1
PN1997 .A495 1992 pt. 2
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko
Story of the famed 15th century icon painter who survives the cruelties
of medieval Russia and creates works of art.
(185 min.)
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Anna
Karenina (1967)
PN1997 .A538 1995
Film adaptation of Tolstoy's classic novel
Director: Aleksandr Zarkhi
Cast: Tatiana Samoilova (Anna Karenina), Vasilii Lanovoi (Count
Vronsky), Nikolai Gritsenko (Karenin), Iurii IAkovlev, Anastasiia
Vertinskaia, Iia Savvina, Maia Plisetskaia
The wife of an aging Russian aristocrat falls for a dashing cavalry
officer.
(143 min.)
The Ascent
(Voskhozhdenie) (1976)
PN1997 .V72
Director: Larisa Shepitko
Cast: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostiukhin, Sergei Iakovlev, Liudmila
Poliakova, Viktoriia Goldentul, Anatolii Solonitsyn, Nilolai Sektimenko,
Mariia Vinogradova
Russian partisans confront the Nazis during World War II. Two men
react in different ways to their capture and torture.
(111 min.)
Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate) (1958)
PN1997 .B3279 1992
Director: Grigori Chukhrai
Cast: Vladimir Ivashov, Shanna Prokhorenko
A soldier-boy earns a ten-day leave to go home to his mother by
performing a desperate act of bravery at the front. On the way home
he has many adventures.
(89 min.)
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The
Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potemkin)
(1925)
DVD
PN1997 .B384 1998
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Digital videodisc release of a 1925 motion picture by Goskino
Cast: Alexander Antonov, Grigori Alexandrov, Vladimir Barski,
Mikhail Gomorov, A. Levshin, Maxim Strauch Potemkin re-creats
the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Prince Potemkin."
It focuses a mutiny by the battleship's crew and the subsequent
massacre of civilians - that reflects the spirit of the times.
Silent film with Russian intertitles and English subtitles and
music score.
(74 min.)
Beginnings
PN1997 .E25 1992 pt.1
This videocassette contains 4 previously released films: A
Fish Factory in Astrakhan -- Sten'ka Razin -- Princess Tarakanova
-- Romance with Double-Bass (Chekhov adaptation)
A silent film with Russian and English subtitles and original
music added.
Cast: Evgenii Petrov-Kraevskii (in the 2nd work), V. Mikulina,
N. Aleksandrova, Nikolai Vasilev (in the 3rd work), V. Gorskaia
(in the 4th work).
Documentaries like A Fish Factory in Astrakhan (1908)
preceded the the first Russian dramatic production, Stenka
Razin (Romashkov, 1908). Meanwhile, the Moscow branch of
Path produced its own version of the film d'art, Princess
Tarakanova (Hansen/Ma_tre, 1910) and soon followed with
the first of many Chekhov adaptations, Romance with double
bass.
(38 min.)
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Brief
encounters (Korotkie vstrechi) (1990)
PN1997 .K678 1990
Director: Kira Muratova
Cast: Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Visotsky, Kira Muratova
A busy District Soviet official interrupts her full schedule
to befriend a young woman from the country and to recall her
bittersweet memories of brief encounters with her often absent
lover, a prospecting geologist.
(87 min.)
The
Brigade (Brigada) (2002)
DVD
PN1992.77.B75 B75 2002 parts 1-6
Director: Alekseia Sidorov
Cast: Sergei Bezrukov, Dmitrii Diazhev, Ekaterina Guseva, Pavel
Maikov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov
Gangster drama set in Russia in the 1990s, showing the progression
a group of four friends takes from 1989 to the present day.
Originally broadcast as a television program. Includes 15 45-minute
episodes, as well as interviews with the actors.
Brother
(Brat) (1997)
DVD
PN1997 .B722 2000
Director: Alexei Balabanov
Cast: Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Victor Sukorukov, Svetlana Pis'michenko,
Mariia Zhukova
When Danila is discharged from the Army, he travels to St. Petersburg
to find his older brother, who is now working for a mafia group
that is in conflict with a rival Chechen organized crime faction.
(96 min.)
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Brother
2 (Brat 2) (1999)
DVD
PN1997 .B723 2000
Director: Aleksei Balabanov
Cast: Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Viktor Sukhorukov, Sergei Makovetskii,
Gari Khiuston, Irina Saltykova, Kirill Pirogov Second film about
a Russian "hero" Danila Bagrov. He meets his army buddies
with whom he fought in Chechnya. One of them, Konstantin, tells
Danila about his brother, a professional hockey player in America,
who is swindled into an oppressive contract by the team owner and
the Ukrainian mafia. After Konstantin is found dead, Danila and
his brother head to America to avenge Konstantin’s death and
resolve his brother’s situation.
(125 min.)
Includes documentary film "Kak snimalsia 'Brat 2'"
(60 min.)
Burnt
by the sun (Utomlennye solntsem) (1994) PN1997 .B837 1995
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Cast: Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Nadya
Mikhalkov
Colonel S. Kotov, a hero of the Revolution, is spending the summer
in the country with his young daughter (Mikhalkov's real-life daughter),
his wife and her eccentric family. But when his wife's childhood
love suddenly appears, the idyllic summer day takes a surprising
turn. A lyrical film filled with beauty and warmth, it is also an
indelible account of a man dedicated to family and fatherland, cruelly
destroyed by political paranoia. 1994 Academy Award for Best foreign
language film.
(134 min.)
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By
the law, Chess fever (1926)
PN1997 .B98 1997
Based upon "The unexpected," by Jack London
Director: Lev Kuleshov
Cast: Vladimir Fogel, Sergei Komarov, Alexandra Khokhlova By
the law: While searching for gold in the Yukon, a disgruntled
prospector viciously murders two of his fellow shareholders,
and the surviving members, after committing the dead to the
frozen earth, must decide the fate of their deranged cohort.
Chess fever: A Keaton-esque comedy in which a young man's
passion for the game threatens to wreck his marriage.
(108 min.)
A chef
in love (1996)
PN1997 .C4624 1997
Director: Nana Djordjadze
Cast: Pierre Richard, Micheline Presle, Nino Kirtadze, Jean-Yves
Gautier, Temour Kamkhadze
A sweeping romance about a free-spirited Frenchman whose romantic
idyll with a princess in pre-Soviet Georgia is threatened by
the barbarism of the Russian revolution. French, Georgian and
Russian with English subtitles.
(100 min.)
Chapayev
(1934)
PN1997 .C45 1984
Directors: S. Vassiliev, G. Vassiliev
Cast: B. Babochkin, B. Blinov, V. Myasnikova, L. Kmit, I. Pevtsov,
S. Shkurat
Story of a beloved hero of the Russian Revolution. An illiterate
member of the Czar's army, he formed his own unit after the
Revolution and fought on the Red side against the Whites.
(101 min.)
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Chekist
(1992)
PN1997 .C4625 1996
Director: Alexandr Rogojkin
Cast: Igor Sergheyer, Alexei Poluyan, Mikhail Vasserbaum, Serghey
Isavnin
In 1917, at the birth of the Russian Revolution, the Bolshevik
secret police (C.H.E.K.A.), forerunners of the KGB, unleased
a reign of bloody terror to wipe out any opposition to communism.
This film follows the daily rituals of a Cheka officer as he
and his men judge and execute their victims.
(90 min.)
The
Cherry Orchard (Vishnevyi sad) (1994)
PN1997 .V5455 1994
Based on Chekhov's play “The Cherry Orchard”
Director: V. Martens
Cast: T. Eremeeva, E. TSyplakova, L. Pirogova, I. Annenkov,
V. Korshunov
(55 min.)
The Commissar
(1967, released 1988)
PN1997 .C6478 1993
Based on the story In the Town of Berdichev by Vassily
Grossman
Director: Alexander Askoldov
Cast: Nonna Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov
In this drama set against the Russian Civil War, a tough Red
Army commander's military career is disrupted by an unwanted
pregnancy. Forced to stay with a poor Jewish family until her
child is born, she finds herself transformed by the warmth and
compassion of her hosts. She must ultimately decide whether
to rejoin her troops or stay with her child.
(105 min.)
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The
Cranes are Flying (Letiat zhuravli)
(1957)
PN1997 .C736 1992
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Cast: Tatiana Samohilova, Aleksei Batalov
Set during World War II, a tragic story of youthful love shattered
by war.
(94 min.)
Creation
of Adam (Sotvorenie Adama) (1993)
PN1997 .S6446 1995
Direcor:Yuri Pavlov
Cast : Saulus Balandis, Serghei Vinogradov, Alexander Strizhenov,
Irina Metliskaya, Anzhelika Nevolina
Andrey's marriage is in trouble when his wife accuses him of
being gay. Andrey helps a young gay man, Philip, escape from
some local bullies. A work visit from a charismatic, wealthy
businessman turns Andrey's life around. Russian with English
subtitles.
(93 min.)
Dersu
Uzala (1974)
PN1997 .D877 1994
Direcor: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Yuri Solomin, Maxim Munzuk
In eastern Siberia, 1902, a native hunter befriends the leader
of a Russian mapping expedition and becomes its guide and primitive
philosopher. Based on the novel by Vladimir Arsenyev. Winner
of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 1975.
(140 min.)
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The
Deserter
(1933)
PN1997 .D4665 1997
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
A German shipyard laborer joins a worker's strike in defiance
of a corrupt union and regardless of the company's violent reprisals.
Starved, beaten and discouraged, he is sent as an envoy to the
USSR and is rejuvenated by the spirit of cooperation and optimism
of the idyllic workers' state. In Russian with English subtitles.
(100 min.)
Don Quixote
(Don Kikhot) (1957)
PQ6332.S7 D65
Director: Grigori Kozintsev
Cast: Nikolai Cherkassov, Y. Tolubeyev, S. Birman
Don Quixote and his squire set out to right the wrongs of the
world. Adapted from Cervantes' novel.
(110 min.)
The End
of an era (Early Russian cinema ; v.10):
The revolutionary = Revoliutsioner
For luck = Za schast'em/K schast'iu
Behind the screen = Kulisy ekrana
PN1997 .E25 1992 pt.10
These Russian films (1917) were originally silent; music acc.
and English subtitles added.
Cast: Revolutionary: Ivan Perestiani; For luck:
Nikolai Radin
Between the February and October revolutions in 1917, Russian
cinema reflected urgent new themes, as in The Revolutionary.
Bur Bauer also continued his vein of tragic melodrama in what
was to be his last film, For Luck -- designed by and
featuring as an actor the young Kuleshov. A poignant fragment,
Behind the Screen, shows the stars Mozzhukhin and Lisenko on
the eve of their departure into exile.
(91 min.)
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The
End of St. Petersburg (Konets Sankt-Peterburga) (1927)
PN1997 .K674 1991
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Cast: Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelev
Shows changing conditions in Russia as seen by a young peasant
who lived through the upheaval in St. Petersburg that culminated
in the revolution of 1917. Made for the 10th anniversary of
the Russian revolution.
(89 min.)
Europe,
Europe (Evropa Evropa) (1992)
PN1997 .E928 1992
Director/writer: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Hanns Zischler
In German and Russian with English subtitles. The true story
of a Jewish teenager who survived World War II by living as
a Nazi for 7 years and through 3 countries.
(115 min.)
Evgenii
Bauer
PN1997 .E946 1992 (Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 7)
Russian films, directed by Bauer, were originally silent; music
acc. and English intertitles added
A child of the big city = Ditia bolshogo goroda (1913);
The 1002nd ruse = Tysiacha vtoraia khitrost (1915); Daydreams
= Grezy (1915).
(93 min.)
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The
Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
(Neobychainye prikliucheniia Mistera Vesta v strane Bolshevikov)
(1924)
PN1997 .E973 1991
Director: Lev Kuleshov
Cast: Porfiri Podobed, Boris Barnet, Vsevolod Pudovkin
In this satiric film on America's slanted view of the Soviet
Union, Mr. West is a bourgeois American who visits those "mad,
savage Russians" on a dare. Once in Russia, he is faced
with an onslaught of strange characters and events, thrusting
him into a world of danger and intrigue. He soon concludes that
only through his all-American ingenuity will he survive ...
and then the farce begins. Short introduction in English; film
subtitled in English; accompanied by musical score.
(78 min.)
Father
Sergius (Otets Sergii) (1978)
PN1997 .O823 1980z
Director: Igor Talankin
Cast: S. Bondarchuk, V. Titova, V. Strzhelchik
The story of a young Russian prince who flees the court to become
a monk and later renounces even that position to travel the
country as a poor pilgrim. Based on the story by Leo Tolstoy.
(130 min.)
Five
evenings (Piat vecherov) (198?)
PN1997 .P53
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Cast: Stanislav Liubshin, Liudmila Gurchenko
Follows the emotional turmoil of a man who, in the course of
five evenings, becomes reacquainted with an old flame. In Russian,
no subtitles.
(105 min.)
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Freeze,
die, come to life (Zamri, umri, voskresni) (1989)
PN1997 .Z255 1991
Director: Vitaly Kanevsk
Cast: Pavel Nazarov, Dinara Drukarova, Yelena Popova
A story of two children who experience the insanity of growing
up in a remote Russian mining community during the period of
Communist rule.
(105 min.)
The Girl
with the Box (Devushka s korobkoi) (1927)
PN1997 .D490 1991
Director: Boris Barnet
Cast: Anna Sten, Vladimir Fogel, Pavel Pol, Ivan Koval Samborsky,
Serafima Birman
A girl who works in a small hat shop is given a supposedly worthless
lottery ticket instead of wages by her unscrupulous employer.
The ticket wins her a fortune, and a chase ensues to possess
the ticket and her affection.
(67 min.)
The Gorky
trilogy (1938-1940)
PN1997 .G657 1900z pt.1
PN1997 .G657 1900z pt.2
PN1997 .G657 1900z pt.3
Director: Mark Donskoi
Cast: Alexi Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Nokolai Valbert
Screen adaptations of Gorky’s novels: My childhood (The
childhood of Maxim Gorky) -- My apprenticeship -- My university.
(300 min.)
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A
hundred days before the order (100 dnei do prikaza) 2000
DVD
PN1997 .S76 2000
Cast: Vladimir Zamanskii, Armen Dzhigarkhanian, Oleg Vasilkov,
Roman Grekov
Five young Red Army recruits struggle for survival against the
violence that surrounds them on a daily basis.
(70 min.)
His
personal life (Chastnaia zhizn) (1987?)
PN1997 .C46 1987
Director: Yuli Raizman
Cast: Mikhail Ulyanov (Sergei Abrikosov), Iya Savvina, Irina
Gubanova
A manager of a large Soviet factory, who had spent all his time
and energy in work, is facing retirement. He takes stock of
his role as husband and father and the many things he has neglected
and attempts to acquire a private life.
(103 min.)
I am
Cuba (Ia—Kuba) (1964)
PN1997 .I238 1995
Script: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Enrique Pineda Barnet
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Four main stories show the rise of the Communist revolution
in Cuba, including Battista's Havana and the grinding poverty
and oppression of the Cuban people.
Dialogue in Spanish and Russian, subtitles in English.
(141 min.)
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Iakov
Protazanov
(Early Russian Cinema, vol. 8)
The departure of a great old man = Ukhod velikogo startsa
(1912)
The queen of spades = Pikovaia dama (1916)
PN1997 .I24 1992
Russian films, directed by Protazanov, were originally silent;
music acc. and English subtitles added.
Cast for Departure: Vladimir Shaternikov, O Petrova,
Mikhail Tamarov, Elizaveta Thiemann.
Cast for Queen: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Vera Orlova, Elizaveta
Shebueva.
(95 min.)
Incident
at Map Grip 36-80 (Sluchai v kvadrate 36-80) (1983)
PN1997 .S578 1983
Director: Mikhail Tumanishvili
Cast: Boris Scherbakov, Mikhai Volontir, Anatoly Kuznetsov,
Vladimir Sedov
A Soviet and an American military officer must decide the fate
of a disabled American nuclear submarine, a decision that could
mean the start of World War III.
(85 min.)
Ivan
The Terrible (Ivan Groznyi) (1944)
PN1997 .I928 1990 pt.1
PN1997 .I928 1990 pt.2
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Cast: Nikolai Cherkassov, Mikhail Zharov
Story of the 16th century Czar of Russia, Ivan the Terrible.
Describes events from his coronation in Moscow to his abdication
and subsequent popular recall.
(184 min.)
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Ivan's
childhood (Ivanovo detstvo) (1963)
PN1997 .I933 1991
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Kolya Burlaiev, Valentin Zubkov, Valentina Malyavina,
Yevgeny Zharikov
An orphan boy serves the Russian army by reconnoitering behind
enemy lines during World War II.
(84 min.)
King
Lear (Korol Lir) (1980)
1971PR2819 .A23 1980z
Director: Grigory Kozintsev
Cast: Yuri Jarvet, V. Shendrikova
A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which tragedy
occurs when an old king divides his kingdom between his daughters.
(140 min.)
Kino-eye
(Kino-glaz) (1924)
DK266.4 .K544 1999
Director: Dziga Vertov
Silent movie with added musical accompaniment. Central to KINO-EYE
... are the activities of the Young Pioneers, a group of Soviet
adolescents committed to serving the needy. These scenes of
teen philanthropy are interwoven with playful cinematic experiments
... documenting a society fresh from revolution ...
(74 min.)
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Lady
Macbeth of the Mtsensk Region (Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda)
(1989)
PN1997 .L428 1995
Director-producer: Roman Balaian
Cast: Natalia Andreichenko, Aleksandr Abdulov, Nikolai Pastukhov,
Tatiana Kravchenko, Oleg Iliukhin, Elena Kolchugina, Natalia
Potapova
Based on the novel "Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda"
by Nikolai Leskov.
(78 min.)
Let
sleeping dogs lie (Ne budite spiashchuiu sobaku) PN1997
.N422 1991
Cast: Victor Pavlov, Alexei Zharkov, Elena Popova, Vladimir
Etush
(123 min.)
Little
Vera (Malen’kaia Vera) (1988)
PN1997 .L5773 1989
Director: Vasily Pichul
Cast: Natalya Negoda
The controversial, award winning coming of age movie about a
woman torn between her lover and her bitter parents.
(110 min.)
Luna
Park (1991)
PN1997 .L85 1994
Director: Pavel Lounguine
Cast: Oleg Borisov, Andrei Goutine, Natalie Egorova
An intense, moving tale of a young man coming to terms with
his past, in a country spinning dangerously out of control.
Examines the role of skinhead influences in early 1990s Moscow.
(105 min.)
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Man with
a Movie Camera (Chelovek s kino-apparatom) (1929)
DK268.3 .C43 1997
Director: Dziga Vertov
Silent film with musical accompaniment. An experimental film
which uses numerous cinematic techniques (split screens, multiple
superimpositions, variable speeds, et cetera) to present a dawn
to dusk view of the Soviet Union and to study the relation between
cinema and reality.
(70 min.)
The Mirror
(Zerkalo) (1974)
PN1997 .M5695 1980z
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Oleg Yanovsky, Margarita Terekhova
Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered
and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, images
of Tarkovsky's childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life--a
child's wartime exile, a mother's experience with political
terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home--all
intermingled with slow-motion dream sequences and poetic chunks
of stark newsreels.
(106 min.)
Mother
(Mat') (1926)
PN1997 .M6684 1990
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Cast: Vera Baranovskaia, Nickolai Batalov, A. Christiakov
A heroic young revolutionary gives his life fighting against
the misery and poverty of Tsarist Russia in the futile prewar
revolution of 1905, and, in so doing, brings about the political
awareness of his own mother. Intertitles in Russian and English;
musical accompaniment added.
(88 min.)
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Oblomov
(1981)
PN1997 .O234 1981
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Cast: Oleg Tabakov (Oblomov), Elena Solovei (Olga), Yuri Bogatyrev,
Andrei Popov
An adaptation of the 19th-century Russian novel Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov. A comedic drama about a member of the landed
gentry of nineteenth-century Russia whose indolence destroys
his life.
(145 min.)
October
(Oktiabr’) (1928)
PN1997 .O242 1980z
Directors: Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Alexandrov
Cast: Vasili Nikandrov, N. Popov, Boris Livanov, Eduard Tiss,
Nikolai Podvoisky
Depicts events and circumstances which culminated in the Russian
Revolution of October 1917. Describes the Kerensky regime, the
European theater of World War I, and discusses the conflicting
plans and ambitions of various participants. A shorter version
of the motion picture was released in the United States with
the title: Ten days that shook the world
(102 min.)
Of
freaks and men (Pro urodov i liudei)
(1998)
DVD
PN1997 .O33 2001
Director: Aleksei Balabanov
Explores the seamy underside of the early 20th century upper
classes.
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The
overcoat (Shinel’) (1968)
PN1997 .O895 1980z
Director: Alexei Batalov
Cast: Rolan Bykov
Classic adaptation of the Gogol story of a clerk whose new overcoat
changes his destiny.
(73 min.)
Peter
the First
Parts I and II (1937-9)
PN1997 .P497 1986 pt.1
PN1997 .P497 1986 pt.2
Director: Vladimir Petrov
Story by Alexei Tolstoy and Vladimir Petrov from the novel by
Tolstoy.
(203 min.)
The planet
of storms (1962)
PN1997 .P5838 1990z
Director: P. Klushantsev
Cast: Gennadi Vernov, Vladimir Temelianov, Yuri Sarantsev
Cosmonauts land on Venus and find themselves in peril by various
alien monstrosities.
(81 min.)
Prisoner
of the mountains (Kavkazskii plennik) (1996)
PN1997 .K338 1997
Director: Sergei Bodrov, Sr.
Cast: Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Djemal Sikharulidze,
Susanna Mekhralieva, Alexander Bureev, Valentina Fedotova, Alexei
Jarkov
Based on the novella Prisoner of the Caucasus by Leo
Tolstoy. A pair of Russian soldiers are captured and taken prisoner
by a Chechen father hoping to barter them for the release of
his captured son. A bond of understanding develops between the
soldiers and their captors, but it is broken when plans for
their release go awry, and a chain of violence and retaliation
is precipitated.
(99 min.)
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Provincial
variations
(Early Russian Cinema, vol. 4)
The Wedding Day
Merchant Bashkirov's Daughter
PN1997 .P779 1992
Jewish life was one of the exotic subjects covered in provincial
films like the Latvian Wedding Day (Slovinski, 1912).
The remarkably bleakmelodrama Merchant Bashkirov's daughter
(Larin, 1913), set on the Volga, was based on a real murder
scandal.
(55 min.)
Repentance
(Pokoianie) (1987)
PN1997 .R464 1988
Director: Tenghiz Abuladze
Cast: Avtandil Makharadze, Ia Ninidze, Merab Ninidze, Zeinab
Botsvadze, Ketevan Abuladze
In a small Russian village a woman is put on trial for repeatedly
digging up the body of the town's recently deceased ruler. The
trial gradually reveals the truth about the despot's vicious
reign of terror, and forces the townspeople to face the reality
of his (and the Soviet Union's) monstrous inhumanity during
the Stalinist era. In Georgian, with English subtitles. Cannes
Special Jury prize, 1987.
(151 min.)
The Road
to Life (Putyovka v zhizn) (1931)
PN1997 .R634 1990z
Director: N. Ekk
Cast: Mikhail Zharov, Maria Gonta, Tzyvan Kyrla
One of the earliest Russian sound films, A road to life is a
dramatization of the problem of orphaned juvenile delinquents
in post-war Russia. After the repressive efforts of the government
failed to reform these children, a group of teachers gathered
them into collective homes where they were taught cooperation
through useful work and recreation. These efforts resulted in
the successful socialization of the children.
(100 min.)
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Scarecrow
(Chuchelo) (1985)
PN1997 .C488 1988
Director: Rolan Bykov
Based on a story by Vladimir Zheleznikov. Story of cruelty of
schoolchildren as they persecute a girl who doesn’t fit
in.
(130 min.)
The
Seagull (Chaika) (1970)
PN1997 .C388 1994
Director: Iuliia Karasik
Cast: A. Demidova, V. Chetverikov, N. Plotnikov, L. Saveleva,
A. Dzhigarkhanian, V. Telichkina, Iu. Iakovlev
Two writers and one actress strive for the ideal of artistic
perfection. Set in the late 19th century Russia, unreciprocated
love in three linked romantic triangles influence the paths
their lives follow, with the seagull the representation of love
for one of the writers. Based on the play by Anton Chekhov.
(95 min.)
The Second
circle (Krug vtoroi) (1990)
PN1997 .K78 1992
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Cast: Petr Alexandrov, Nadezhda Rodnova, Tamara Timofeeva, Aleksandr
Bystriakov
Set in a frigid Siberian town to which a youth has travelled
to superintend the burial of his father, this is a story of
the son's confrontation with death. His father's life is viewed
in the context of and as a contemporary image of twentieth-century
Soviet society's influence. What comes to the fore, however,
are the eternal verities of death, faith, and the continuance
of life.
(92 min.)
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Siberiade
(1979)
PN1997 .S494 1994 pt.1
PN1997 .S494 1994 pt.2
Director: A. Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky
Cast: Lyudmilla Gurchenko, Nikita Mikhalkov, Vitaly Solomin,
Vladimir Samoilov, Sergei Shakurov, Igor Okhlupin
An epic romantic drama about three generations of two feuding
families, the rich Solomins and the poor Ustyuzhanins, of a
rural Siberian village, from the time of the Russian Revolution
to the present-day exploration of hidden resources of Siberian
soil.
(206 min.)
Sidewhiskers
(Bakenbardy) (1990)
PN1997 .B326 1992
Director: Yuri Mamin
Cast: Victor Sukhorukov, Alexander Medvedev
The Pushkin Club is a group of reactionaries who affect 19th
century dress and want to remove from Russia "the scum
of Western influence." In this original, biting satire
a warning about the rise of militarism and fascism in Russia
is sounded.
(110 min.)
Sisters
(Sestry) (2001)
DVD
PN1997.2 .S477 2001
Director: Sergei Bodrov, Jr.
Cast: Katia Gorina, Oksana Akinshina, Sergei Bodrov
The sisters are, in fact, half-sisters - 13-year-old Sveta and
8-year-old Dina, whose father is a mid-ranking gangster in the
Russian Mafia. He is released from prison after serving time
for a robbery, but finds his colleagues on the outside suspect
him of stashing away some of his crime's ill-gotten gains. To
ensure his co-operation they plan to kidnap his children, but
the resourceful, independent kids escape and hide out in the
countryside. The squabbling sisters temporarily put aside their
differences as they try to stay one step ahead of their would-be
captors. First and only film directed by Sergei Bodrov, Jr.,
star of “Brother” and “Brother 2.”
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Solaris
(1971)
PN1997 .S632 1991 pt.1
PN1997 .S632 1991 pt.2
Director: A. Tarkovski
Cast:Donats Banionis, Natalia Bondartchouk
Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem. On the water planet, Solaris,
human space explorers encounter a unique and radical intelligence.
Contact between man and this entity stretches the limits of
reason and insanity, knowledge and comprehension.
(167 min.)
Strike
(1925)
PN1997 .S795 1999
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Cast: Grigori Alexandrov, Maxim Strauch
Originally released in 1925 as motion picture. Silent with musical
accompaniment. Story of a strike by factory workers in Tsarist
Russia which is brutally suppressed. English subtitles.
(94 min.)
Starewicz's
fantasies
PN1997 .E25 1992 pt.3
Director:
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Silent films with Russian and English subtitles with original
music added.
One of ten volumes of a unique video anthology (with original
music) from Gosfilmofond, Milestone Film & Video, and the
British Film Institute.
The dragonfly and the ant
Christmas Eve
The Lily of Belgium
Cast: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Olga Obolenskaia, Lidiia Tridenskaia,
P. Lophukin, A. Kheruvimov, Pavel Knorr (in the 2nd work), Irina
Starewicz (in the 3rd work)
Starewicz's fantasies, Wladislaw Starewicz's later puppet
animation, is now better known than his brilliant beginning
at the Khanzhonkov Studio. He pioneered insect-puppets in The
Ant and The Grasshopper (1911), before turning to
live-action fantasy in a version of Gogol's Christmas eve
(1913) and contributing to the war effort with an anti-German
allegory The Lily of Belgium (1915)
(58 min.)
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A
Summer to Remember (Seryozha) (1961)
PN1997 .S933 1980z
Directors: G. Danelia, I. Talankin
Cast: Borya Barkhatov (Seryozha), Sergey Bondarchuk (Korostelov),
Irina Skobtseva (Marianna), Natasha Chechetkina (Lidka), Seryozha
Metyelytsyn (Vasska), V. Merkuriev (Uncle Kostya)
A lyrical look at the relationship between a young boy and his new
stepfather. Based on the story Seriozha by Vera Federovna
Panova.
(80 min.)
The
Thief (Vor) (1998)
PN1997 .V68 1999
Cast: Ekaterina Rednikova, Vladimir Mashkov, Misha Philipchuk
An Academy Award nominated (Best Foreign Language Film, 1997)
tale of passion, betrayal and innocence lost, as seen through
the eyes of an impressionable young boy. Set in post-World War
II Russia.
(93 min.)
Three
songs about Lenin (Tri pesni o Lenine) (1934)
DK254.L4 T48 1991
Director: Dziga Vertov
Lenin as revealed through the eyes of the Russian people, represented
by three songs.
(62 min.)
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Thunder over
Mexico (Que viva Mexico)
(1931-2)
PN1997 .Q37
Sergei Eisenstein's "lost" masterpiece, reconstructed
by Grigory Aleksandrov and Nikita Orlov. A video document of the
history of Mexico, presented in four novellas: Sandunga,
an exposition of Tehuantepec jungles and the peaceful lifestyles
of their inhabitants; Manguei, a love story about a poor
peon and his bride; Fiesta, devoted to bullfighting and romantic
love; and Soldadera, a portrayal of the 1910 revolution in
Mexico as depicted in the frescoes of Sigueiros, Rivera, and Orosco.
(85 min.)
The War (Voina) (2002)
DVD
PN1997.2 .V646 2002
Director: Aleksei Balabanov
Cast: Aleksei Chadov, Sergei Bodrov, Jr., Ingebora Dapkunaite, Evklid
Kiurdzidis, Georgii Gurguliia, Vladimir Gostiukhin, Iurii Stepanov
Brutal story of friendship, patriotism and personal loyalties told
against the background of the story of hostages in the first Russian-Chechen
conflict.
War and peace (Voina i mir) (1967)
PN1997 .V64 1982 pt.1
PN1997 .V64 1982 pt.2
PN1997 .V64 1982 pt.3
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Cast: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Sergei Bondarchuk,
Anastasia Vertinskaya, Vasily Lanovoi, Irina Skobtseva, Boris Zakhava,
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Videorecording of the 1967 film adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy.
Follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats
from 1805 to 1812, including Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
(403 min.)
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The White
Russian station (Belorusskii vokzal)
(198?)
PN1997 .B443
Director: Andrei Smirnov
Cast: Aleksei Glazirin, Evgenii Leonov, Anatolii Papanov, Vsevolod
Safonov
Three friends come to bury a fourth and reminisce about World
War II.
(72 min.)
White
sun of the desert (Beloe solntse pustyn) (198?)
PN1997 .B44
Directors: M. Daknev, V. Dovlatov
Set in the desert near the Afghan border during the Revolution
of 1917-1920. In Russian with no subtitles.
(65 min.)
Wild
oats (Oshibki iunosti) (1978)
PN1997 .O766 1995
Director: Boris Frumin
Cast: Stanislav Zhdanko, Marina Neyelova, Natalia Varley, Mikhail
Vaskov, Nikolai Karatchetsov, Nikolai Penkov, Marina Maltseva,
Bella Tchirina
Dmitri Gurianov is a Red Army conscript stationed at a Black
Sea resort. Leaving behind the humiliations of army life, he
chooses a high paying construction job in Siberia. He starts
a love affair with a beautiful, enigmatic co-worker, but they
split over the question of parenthood. Dmitri moves to Leningrad
and drifts into a life among black marketeers and a marriage
of expediency.
(87 min.)
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