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Elliot, a 25-year-old British boy, discovers that he has a secret half-brother, Fyodor in Saint Petersburg. Elliot travels to the city, meets his brother and falls in love with Anya, Fyodor's girlfriend.
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「戦争と平和」「アンナ・カレーニナ」を世に生み出した、ロシアの大文豪トルストイ。比類なき文学的才能と家柄、作家としての名声。莫大な印税と多くのものに恵まれた彼はなぜ、82歳で家出し名も無き田舎の駅で客死せざるをえなかったのか。始まりは、彼の残した遺言にあった。トルストイの作品に関する権利を家族ではなくロシア国民に与えるというその内容は、妻ソフィヤとの関係を思いがけぬ方向に導いてゆく…“世界三大悪妻"と名高いソフィヤ。しかしすべては女としてトルストイを愛し、母として家族を守るための行動だった…
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The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out to be wrong ones and correcting them make things worse.
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A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
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Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the painter Hubert Robert, who spent a long time in Italy, and whose preference was for creating ancient ruined landscapes and naturalistic portrayals of times past. He was successful with the wealthy, who bought his works from him. The camera pans across the paintings while Sokurov speaks of a happy era, when the artist was at one with the spirit of the times, and agreed with the taste of his clients. Just how far removed from us this is, is shown by pictures of a "Nô" performance which are inter-cut on the screen. No words are necessary to describe what everybody knows today.
