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Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.
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By the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything one can dream of: talent, fame and love. He is the rising star of Soviet football. The whole country, with bated breath, expects victory from the national team at the upcoming World Cup where Streltsov is to face the great Brazilian football player Pelé. However, two days before the departure of the team, the sportsman’s enemies manage to destroy his career. When the door to big sport seems to be closed for good, Streltsov has to re-enter the field and prove that he is a true champion who is worth everybody’s love.
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第2次世界大戦下、ソ連の新米士官イヴシュキンは初めて出た前線の戦いで敗れ、ナチス・ドイツ軍の捕虜となってしまう。イヴシュキンが戦車の指揮をしていたことを知った敵軍は、収容所で行われているナチスの戦車戦演習のため、ソ連軍の戦車T-34の操縦をイヴシュキンに命じる。しかし、与えられたT-34は実弾を装備せず、演習では敵の砲火から逃げ惑うことしかできない。確実に死が待ち受ける演習を前に、T-34の整備を命じられたイヴシュキンは、仲間とともに無謀な脱出計画を立て、実行に移す。＜第2次世界大戦時、ナチスの捕虜になったソ連兵が、たった4人の味方と一台の戦車で敵の軍勢に立ち向かう姿を描いたロシア製戦争アクション。「太陽に灼かれて」の名匠ニキータ・ミハルコフが製作を務め、撮影にはT-34の本物の機体を使用した。＞
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What is love? The heroes of the film try to answer this question. A series of the most different characters and their stories are woven together. Small stories about various things, all about love: a young pair who prefer to live through images of Japanese anime-heroes; a secretary who receives an obscene offer from her boss; a Japanese woman who arrives in Moscow in search of a Russian man; a graffiti artist in search of beauty; an ex-wife employed by her husband for an unusual task; and many other things...
