Leda Semyonova

Durante miles de años, arios y otros pueblos han luchado por la hegemonía en la región de Ucrania. En el siglo XVI, son el polaco y el turco los dos ejércitos que luchan por el poder en la zona. Finalmente la victoria se decanta del lado eslavo, gracias a la ayuda de los cosacos, comandados por Taras Bulba. El jefe de los polacos invita a los jefes aliados a brindar por la victoria. Sin embargo, sus agasajos son despreciados por Bulba, incapaz de subordinarse. (FILMAFFINITY)

Egor, a successful thirty-year-old engineer falls in love with Lucy, a flamboyant artist and amateur actress. He clashes with her brother Alex, an “evil genius” photographer, who has dedicated his new exhibition “Sunless City" to St. Petersburg. Egor can't understand the values of the “sunless city”, the fringe world inhabited by Lucy and Alex. After Egor realizes that Lucy is a drug addict, he desperately tries to save her...

El Marqués de Coustine, un diplomático francés del siglo XVIII con una relación de amor/odio hacia Rusia se encuentra en un viaje en el tiempo en el Palacio de Invierno de San Petersburgo -desde los tiempos de Pedro el Grande hasta nuestros días. Con él, un invisible realizador ruso (en off), que está confuso sobre la posición de Rusia en Europa.

Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.

In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics.

A film director Nikolai Khudokormov is on the brink of his 50th anniversary. He has the whole life rich in events under his belt: creative quests, several marriages and children. Now he has to live with an old insane Mother and seems to be indifferent to what is going on around. But at the same time he is obsessed by the idea to make a film which will be his best one. Nikolai makes every effort to raise the money for this project. And all the time he is followed by a mysterious stranger. She is a beautiful young creature who speaks to him about the vanity of the world and the meaningless of a human life. Finally, Nikolai realizes that he is speaking to the Death herself.

Originally aired on Russian television, this five-part semi-documentary series tells the story of a Russian naval commander in charge of an Arctic-based ship. The film provokes a meditation on solitude and isolation, while revealing the daily duties associated with the ship. Voice-over narration by the commander, other sailors, and even a third-person voice provide the "confession" of the title.

A documentary film about the Russian director Sergei Kosintsev.

A Humble Life is certainly true to its title, a documentary study of the day-to-day world of Umeno Mathuyoshi, an old woman who lives in an isolated mountain house in the Nara prefecture in Japan.

Petersburg Diary - Opening of the monument to Dostoevsky

A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.

This small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual Voices.

An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a series of “the degraded and the humiliated,” including a holy prostitute and a Kafkaesque bureaucrat.

These images and sounds are poetic metaphors that transform “Elegy from Russia” into a document that provides a emotional–historical “memory bank” for all.

Made up of footage of a protest manifestation of mothers whose children had been summoned to serve in Soviet military forces and sent to the zones of Transcaucasian conflicts.

Tatyana Prokofievna is an ageing woman with a diva’s behavior, but her life is uneventful, ordinary and dull. To escape the everyday slumber she seeks companionship of young men. She provides shelter and becomes involved in their problems. Her ex-boyfriend has married a younger woman. Tatyana is forced to keep her loneliness hidden because of her role as hostess.

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of the operation on the stable boy’s clubfoot. The universality of the theme of eternal struggle between the soul and the flesh is conveyed through the absence of specific reference to time or place: although the film seems to begin in 1840, its surreal mode effortlessly accommodates an automobile and the strains of “When the Saints Go Marching In” on an off-screen radio. Focusing on passion from a woman’s perspective and downplaying plot, Sokurov explores his subject in exquisite detail, capturing not only the heat of passion but also the quiet moments before and after and the innocent sensuousness of the body.

A requiem for a Russian peasant woman, Maria Semionovna Voinova. The film is in two chapters. The first chapter consists of an impression of Maria Semionovna, scenes of the colours of summer time: hay–making, bathing in a river, work in the flax fields and a holiday in the Crimea. The second chapter, set nine years later, is in black and white and deals with how Maria Semionovna's life ended. The mood is one of a sad and elegiac narration.

En el Turkmenistán soviético, región fronteriza de extremada aridez y calor sofocante, el joven doctor Malianov (Aleksei Ananichnov) alterna la atención médica a la población infantil con una investigación sobre la menor propensión a la enfermedad de los niños que viven en comunidades creyentes. Misteriosas fuerzas se conjuran para impedir el avance de este trabajo: un teléfono que suena incesantemente, un amigo que conmina al doctor a abandonar la región, la visita inesperada de su hermana, un muerto que le advierte sobre la conveniencia de no ir más allá de los límites establecidos, el asalto de un rebelde, la aparición súbita de un niño que reclama su atención. Personal adaptación de una novela de ciencia-ficción de los hermanos Strugatski que traza los avatares de una crisis espiritual en un escenario apocalíptico en el que se intuye el inminente desmoronamiento de un sistema político. (FILMAFFINITY)

Nikita, atormentado por la guerra civil, conoce a Luba, que es tan profundamente moral y solitaria como él. Con esta película Sokurov debuta como director basada en el libro "The River Potudan". Fue filmada en 1978 y prohibida por la censura soviética hasta que finalmente pudo estrenarse en 1987. Elogiada y defendida con entusiasmo por Andrei Tarkovsky, quien lo señala como su verdadero discípulo.

Una adinerada mujer, postrada en la cama por una enfermedad, intenta ponerse en contacto por teléfono con su marido, pero la comunicación se ve interrumpida. (FILMAFFINITY)

A la mansión del excéntrico capitán Shotover (Ramaz Chjikvadze) llega una comitiva de extravagantes personajes, entre los que están Ellie Dunn (Victoria Amitova) y su prometido, el Jefe Mangan (Ilya Rivin). A la amenaza de una guerra inminente se unen los escarceos amorosos, los pantagruélicos banquetes, muertes súbitas, autopsias y resurrecciones. Finalmente, los personajes se encontrarán en una precaria balsa en medio del océano, lo que representa la incertidumbre del futuro en un medio tan peligroso como inestable. Libérrima adaptación de la obra de teatro de George Bernard Shaw "La casa de las penas" (Heartbreak house). El autor intervendrá en la historia para tratar de poner orden en la representación de su propia obra. (FILMAFFINITY)

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.

A story about an orphan boy, abandoned by his family. He was raised by his kind adopted mother, and was sold by his adopted father in hardship to a traveling man who eventually, became his teacher and a father-figure. With his teacher, he learned to play music and perform on the street with 3 intelligent dogs and a monkey. He traveled through the towns of France, and through life twist and turn, eventually, lead to the ultimate search for his real family.