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Devoted to the last days of Soviet writer, poet, and Gulag survivor Varlam Shalamov, this film follows the efforts of two of Shalamov’s most devoted admirers to preserve the author’s legacy. Having lost his sight and hearing and living in a retirement home, he carried on doing the only thing that mattered to him — writing — until his final breath. This film is a testament to the value of writings that tell the unpalatable truths of the 20th century. To evoke the gritty texture of the Soviet world, Sententia is shot on 16mm black and white film.
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15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an accident on a Latvian highway. The bus driver who was involved in the tragic accident will bring his body back to Leningrad. A party of mourners – Tsoi’s wife and her new boyfriend, his mistress, his producer, his young son and an obsessed photographer – are part of the trip back. This is going to be a long trip, the perfect occasion for an agonizing unravelling of love, jealousy, ambition, and greed.
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A los veinte años, Eduard Streltsov tiene todo lo que uno puede soñar: talento, fama y amor. Es la estrella en ascenso del fútbol soviético. Todo el país, con la respiración contenida, espera la victoria de la selección nacional en el próximo Mundial donde Streltsov se enfrentará al gran futbolista brasileño Pelé. Sin embargo, dos días antes de la salida del equipo, los enemigos del deportista logran destrozar su carrera. Cuando la puerta al gran deporte parece estar cerrada para siempre, Streltsov tiene que volver a entrar en el campo y demostrar que es un verdadero campeón que merece el amor de todos.
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Found unconscious and robbed on a beach in Thailand, 70-year old Xenophon only knows his own name because it was engraved on his old Soviet watch. He’s been left with no money and no identification…and he doesn’t speak a word of Thai. But Xenophon is a resourceful man. He begins to build a new life with friends and a new business, but there’s something disturbing in his past that he can only glimpse through his shattered memory. Is he really who he seems?
