Boris Frumin
Nacimiento : 1947-10-24, Riga, Latvia
Historia
Boris Moiseevich Frumin (Russian: Борис Моисеевич Фрумин, Latvian: Boriss Frumins; born 24 October 1947) is a Soviet, American and Latvian film director and screenwriter.
Frumin's film Errors of Youth was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. His project Siberian Triangle was presented at the 32nd Moscow International Film Festival. Frumin is an associate professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he shares his passion for neo-realism and Eastern European film.
Writer
El ex campeón de lucha libre Kakhi siempre tiene a su familia en su memoria. Este sentimiento lo lleva a embarcarse en un viaje desde su casa en la República de Georgia hasta el barrio de Brighton Beach en Nueva York para visitar a su hijo Soso. Una vez ahí, se da cuenta de que Soso no solo no estudia medicina, como creía Kakhi, sino que trabaja para una empresa de mudanzas. Además, ha acumulado una deuda de juego
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María, esposa de un subcomandante de una base militar, comienza una relación con otro oficial. Su relación rápidamente se sale de control y cambia de manera fatal e irreversible el curso de la vida de María y su familia.
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María, esposa de un subcomandante de una base militar, comienza una relación con otro oficial. Su relación rápidamente se sale de control y cambia de manera fatal e irreversible el curso de la vida de María y su familia.
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Antonina es profesora de dibujo artístico de San Petersburgo que debido a la situación de su marido, encarcelado, debe desplazarse a la Rusia profunda para no perder el contacto. Tras encontrar trabajo de profesor de arte en la escuela local, se encuentra con una mayor dificultad que el desplazarse, un chico de 12 años, Misha, el hermano de un temido maleante local que le hará la vida imposible.
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La historia de amor de Arturs, de dieciséis años, se ve interrumpida por la Primera Guerra Mundial. Después de perder a su madre y su hogar, encuentra cierto consuelo al unirse al ejército, porque esta es la primera vez que se permiten batallones nacionales en el Imperio Ruso. Pero la guerra no se parece en nada a lo que Arturs imaginó: no hay gloria, no hay justicia. Es brutal y doloroso. Arturs está ahora completamente solo mientras la guerra acaba con la vida de su padre y su hermano. Además, no se avanza en la pronta resolución prometida de la guerra y el regreso oportuno a casa. Con la idea de que solo él se preocupa por regresar a casa y que su tierra natal es solo un patio de recreo para otras naciones, Arturs encuentra la fuerza para la batalla final y finalmente regresa a casa para comenzar todo desde cero, al igual que su país recién nacido.
Screenplay
Esta tragicomedia cuenta la historia de Setsuko Kawashima (Terajima), una mujer solitaria, fumadora, que trabaja en una oficina en Tokyo y que no está en su mejor momento. Tras apuntarse a clases de inglés, descubre una nueva identidad en su alter ego americano, 'Lucy', y se enamora de su profesor John (Hartnett). Cuando John desaparece repentinamente, Setsuko decide buscarlo, una aventura que la llevará hasta el sur de California.
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Levan Koguashvili’s film — about a lonely 40-year-old schoolteacher who takes up with the wife of a soon-to-be-released convict — is a compassionate tragicomedy commenting on relationships and the profound emotional responsibilities they trigger.
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A middle-aged, unemployed heroin-addict, Checkie, loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son’s school, where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and understand her husband’s lack of interest in the family’s survival—even as the bank repossesses their furniture. But when a group of policemen blackmails Checkie into entrapping the son of his wealthy friend, husband and wife are unified by the uncertainty of their deepening moral dilemma, and a series of worsening foul-ups, in Levan Koguashvili’s lightly humorous yet realistic drama about the fate of a generation left behind in Georgia’s post-Soviet era.
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The story became legend school killed the most beautiful girl in school, yesterday elected a beauty queen. Who is to blame for her death: lover, friends, school teacher? Is pouring find the killer will not be easy.
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Seventies. The cold war in the midst of the USSR and the West are fighting hard for secret information about each other. Soviet intelligence agencies want to save their couriers from too much attention of customs officers at the Leningrad airport. These couriers deliver to the USSR important documents obtained by our scouts in Western Europe
Director
Seventies. The cold war in the midst of the USSR and the West are fighting hard for secret information about each other. Soviet intelligence agencies want to save their couriers from too much attention of customs officers at the Leningrad airport. These couriers deliver to the USSR important documents obtained by our scouts in Western Europe
Writer
Young Kolya is in love with his singing teacher, but his life isn't easy. His father skips town after stealing some coins from a museum and his mother is sent to a labor camp as punishment. When the father returns a year later, Kolya becomes involved with the pretty young woman hired to nurse him.
Director
Young Kolya is in love with his singing teacher, but his life isn't easy. His father skips town after stealing some coins from a museum and his mother is sent to a labor camp as punishment. When the father returns a year later, Kolya becomes involved with the pretty young woman hired to nurse him.
Director
She has an elegant hat, bad English (she came from Russia after all), an unaffordable suitcase with the most necessary things. She has no home, relatives, friends, work, elementary concepts about the life into which she has been brought, and which she will never be able to arrange. A Russian girl who got lost in three New York skyscrapers and already managed to get into someone's tenacious hands finds friendship and understanding from the same outcast and restless Negro janitor...
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A young guy decides to try himself in a northern region of USSR after being honorably discharged from Soviet Army.
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A young guy decides to try himself in a northern region of USSR after being honorably discharged from Soviet Army.
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A story of a former stage singer who now works as a hairdresser and tries to raise her teenage son. Her teenage son is entering the adult world and tries to find his place in it. Her ex-husband tries to manage his relationships with his new family, his ex-wife and his son.
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The everyday life of a Soviet high school principal, a WWII veteran and an unfulfilled writer, whose vocation is teaching kids.
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Boris Frumin's term paper, the first test of the pen, where he captures in a free and easy manner the unbearable lightness of being.
Writer
Black and White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigre studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an African American building superintendent on New York's Lower East Side, and the bond that they form from living on the edges of Manhattan. Filled with an assortment of fringe artists, disenfranchised immigrants, diamond dealers and sexual surrogates, the film is ultimately about breaking down barriers between people.
