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Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Aleksandr Nevskii
Director: Sergei Eisenstein, Pyotr Pavlenko
Starring: Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov
Prince Alexander Nevsky and his army repeal an attempt by the Teutonic Knights to invade Russia in 1242.
[DVD]

      
Andrei Rublev (1969)
Andrey Rublyov
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Ivan Lapikov, Anatoli Solonitsyn
The famed 15th Century icon painter survives the cruelties of medieval Russia and creates works of art.
[DVD]

      
Burnt by the sun (1994)
Utomlyonnye solntsem
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Starring: Oleg Menchikov, Nikita Mikhalkov
Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in 1936 in his dacha with family and friends, until Cousin Dmitri arrives on what may not be a social call.
[VHS ]

      
Come and see (1985)
Idi i smotri
Director: Elem Klimov
Starring: Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova
A boy is thrust into the atrocities of war in WWII Byelorussia, fighting for the hopelessly unequipped resistance against the Nazis.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Day watch (2006)
Dnevnoi dozor
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Starring: Konstantin Khabensky, Mariya Poroshina
A man serving in the war between the forces of Light and Dark gets a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.
[DVD]

      
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Derusu Uzara
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Maxim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin
A Russian army explorer renews his friendship with the Asiatic hunter in Siberia who once saved his life.
[DVD]

      
Ivan the Terrible (1944)
Ivan Groznyy
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Starring: Nikolai Cherkasov, Ludmila Tselikovskaya
In 1547, Ivan IV, archduke of Moscow, crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory.
[DVD]

      
Mother and son (1997)
Mat i syn
Director: Alexander Sokurov
Starring: Gudrun Geyer, Aleksej Ananishnov
A simple narrative of love and patience told via a dying mother nursed by her devoted son is intertwined with spiritual images of the countryside.
[DVD]

      
Russian ark (2002)
Russkiy kovcheg
Director: Alexander Sokurov
Starring: Sergei Dreiden, Maria Kuznetsova
A modern filmmaker is transported to the 18th Century where he embarks on journey through 300 years of Russian history.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Solaris (1972)
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchouk
On the water planet Solaris, humans encounter a unique and radical intelligence.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Bronenosets Potyomkin
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Starring: Grigori Alexandrov, Alexander Antonov
The great 1905 Russian naval mutiny results in a street demonstration and a police massacre.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
The cuckoo (2002)
Kukushka
Director: Alexander Rogozhkin
Starring: Anny-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo
A young Saami widow takes in two wounded soldiers, one a Finn and the other a Russian.
[DVD]

      
The Italian (2005)
Italianetz
Director: Andrei Kravchuk
Starring: Maria Kuznetsova, Kolya Spiridonov
After discovering his mother is still alive, a six-year-old Russian boy escapes from his orphanage and sets out on a perilous journey to find her.
[DVD]

      
War and peace (1968)
Voina i mir
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Starring: Lyndmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
The lives of a group of Russian aristocrats cross during Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
[DVD]



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