Yuriy Arabov

An exploration of 20th century Russia, following the fusing of the Party and the state after the Russian Civil War, which opened the doors to corruption, resulting in the exiling of the left and right opposition. Described using a combination of historical settings, biographies and masterpieces from Russian avant-garde artists, composers and writers from this period in history.

The film is a parable about fear; it is a story about the attitudes of a mother and daughter deprived of love, who temporarily find mutual understanding, rallied by fear before the story invented by the mother about a cannibalistic wolf. On a philosophical level it is a reflection on the lost purity of thoughts, which is the main condition for the harmony of human life, and yet another illustration of the proverb: “The sleep of reason produces monsters”

Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.

A story of a young girl Claudia who works as a security guard on a slowly dying metal plant.

They don't really know each other. She lives in penury. He holds a pawnshop. Poverty makes her marry him, despite she doesn't love him and even despises. After the marriage takes place, the family war begins. Based on a novel 'A Gentle Creature' by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday type: Lida the hairdresser has indiscriminate affairs, followed by numerous abortions; Rudik the doctor enjoys an endless supply of women, thanks to his position, neglecting his paralyzed father who lives with him and hoping the old man will die soon; the local officer of the law has no qualms about committing murder; a magician from the local circus might actually be sawing women in half on stage... One day, a mysterious man appears in this quiet backwater town. He goes by the title of the Executor: at least that's what it says on his business card...

The film is based on the life of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of the most tragic and greatest poets of the 20th century. The authors follow her in Russia, then in immigration in Prague and Paris, and then her return to Russia where she committed a suicide a few month after her arrival.

1300년대 몽골 평원, 우즈베크의 아들 티비베크는 프랑스 아비뇽에서 찾아온 평화를 갈망하는 두 사신에게 전쟁을 선포하고, 그 순간 함께 저녁을 들던 동생 자니베크의 손에 죽음을 당한다. 형을 죽이고 칸의 자리에 오른 자니베크는 어머니 타이둘라의 인정을 받아 다음 칸의 지위에 오른다. 어머니 타이둘라가 실명하자 러시아의 성자로 칭송받던 성자 세바스찬을 데려오지만 큰 차도가 보이지 않자 러시아를 피로 물들이는 모습을 그에게 보여주겠다며 잔인한 복수를 다짐한다. 성자 세바스찬의 고행이 계속되는 와중에 기적처럼 타이둘라의 시력이 돌아오고 자니베크는 성자에게 감사를 표하고 그를 러시아로 돌려보내고 축제를 즐기던 와중에 그의 아들 베르디베크의 음모에 휘말리고 마는데…

진리추구를 지상 최대의 목표로 삼은 박사 파우스트. 인간의 근원을 파악하겠다며 인체 해부도 마다 않지만, 그가 얻은 것은 극심한 생활고뿐이다. 어느 날 돈을 마련하고자 전당포를 비롯한 마을 이곳 저곳을 어슬렁거리던 중, 파우스트는 신비한 처녀 마가레테와 맞닥뜨리고, 그녀의 아름다움에 완전히 매료되고 만다. “어떡하면 마가레테를 가질 수 있지?” “여기 서명만 하면 그녀는 당신 것이오!” 강렬한 욕망에 사로잡힌 파우스트에게 유혹의 순간이 찾아온다. 대금업자 뮐러가 그에게 처녀와 하룻밤을 보내게 해줄 테니 영혼을 달라고 제안한 것이다. 파우스트는 한 치의 망설임 없이 제안을 수락하는데… 당신이라면 이 치명적인 유혹 앞에서 어떤 선택을 할 것인가?

The film is based on real events that took place in Samara in 1956 and known as the "Standing Zoe." During the holiday girl, without waiting her betrothed, removes the icon from the wall and Nicholas begins to dance with her, but suddenly freezes in place. This state continues for many months. Residents of the provincial town are frightened by this extraordinary event, which is cluttered with rumors and speculation. To try to understand the situation, there goes metropolitan newspaper journalist ...

A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.

Before leaving Russia and moving to Western Europe, famous opera singer Lyuba travels to her hometown to say goodbye and show her teenage son around. But Andrey, Lyuba’s son, disappears and she must stay in the place she hates the most to search for him. A piercing exploration of identity and transformation, against the backdrop of a Russian hinterland, surrounded by Orthodox churches and snow.

"The fate of a person can not only be explained, but also predicted, using the same laws according to which a screenplay is built," says Yuri Arabov, a well–known Russian screenwriter, winner of the Cannes Film Festival. One day, an inexplicable, at first glance, event occurred in the fate of Arabov himself. He received a call from a man who claimed that he was his father, who had left him with his mother 40 years ago, and whom Arabov himself had long considered dead…

Russian TV miniseries of Boris Pasternak's classic novel.

Biographical film depicting Japanese Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) during the final days of World War II. The film is the third drama in director Aleksandr Sokurov's trilogy, which included Taurus about the Soviet Union's Vladimir Lenin and Moloch about Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler.

The film is dedicated to the little-known period of life of the great Russian composer P.I. Tchaikovsky. He appears before us not as a canonical gray-haired genius, recognized and crowned with world fame, but as a young, insecure man who comes to visit his sister for several summer days. Relatives and friends, “little people”, give the great artist love, care and spiritual support, helping him to find himself, to overcome “torture by the sounding world”. For them, as well as for the authors of the film, Tchaikovsky is an angel thrown to the ground, reminiscent of the ultimate mission of man ...

Film by Andrey Khrzhanovsky based on the works of Joseph Brodsky.

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.

19세기 러시아의 숲 속, 불치병으로 고통을 겪고 있는 어머니와 그녀의 아들이 별장에서 살아간다. 어머니는 걷는 것도, 먹는 것도 힘이 들 정도로 허약하지만 아들은 어릴적 어머니가 자신에게 했던 것처럼 어머니를 돌본다.어느 날 밤, 어머니와 아들은 같은 꿈을 꾸게 되고, 아들은 어머니를 모시고 산책길에 나선다. 거기서 아들은 어머니에게 오래 전의 엽서들을 읽어 드리고, 그녀를 우리 아가라고 부르며 어머니가 고통에서 벗어나도록 따스하게 위로한다. 그리고 그들은 예전의 즐거웠던 시간들을 추억한다. 그들이 이미 알고 있는, 곧 다가올 이별의 충격을 완화시켜보려는 듯.

A 1993 Russian language drama film directed by Andrei Dobrovolsky, starring Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandra Butorina and Aleksandr Adabashyan. The film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 1994.

Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and the ghost's present-day guardian. In fact, the two characters seem to be the shade of Anton Chekhov and the young man who tends a Chekhov museum in the Crimea, though that is never made explicit."

A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.

Volodya, who lives with his mother in the apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, gets a pre-revolutionary book on magic rituals of Africa. Reading it, Vladimir realizes that he became an owner the supernatural gift – he can kill people by his own will.

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 famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.

This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's earlier mania for relocating and eliminating whole ethnic groups and classes of people. These desperately unhappy people are unable to find any pleasure in this diverse companionship, but instead are antagonistic to it, and often resort to desperate measures in their doomed attempts to ease their pain.

안드레이 플라토노프의 "포투단 강"과 "주인의 기원 (The Origin of a Master)"을 각색해 만든 소쿠로프의 장편 데뷔작. 러시아 혁명 당시 적군 소속으로 활동했던 니키타는 고향으로 돌아온다. 그리고 혁명과 전쟁으로 가족을 잃은 어릴 적 친구 류바와 친해진다. 10월 혁명에 대한 비판적인 시선이 녹아 있다는 이유로 정부에 의해 오랜 기간 개봉을 금지당했다.

The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it reflects the play which inspired it, the ferociously antiwar Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw. A large group of family and friends have gathered at this country house to dance, drink, and converse. Their conversation, in particular, is adorned with erudite literary references and quotations. Despite their apparent refinement, their preoccupations are simple: sex and violence. Disquieting images break the tranquility of the vacationers' inappropriate idyll: some of these include documentary footage of starving African children, images (both real and re-enacted) of George Bernard Shaw going about his daily life, and a corpse coming to life on an autopsy table, only to cheapen that miracle by scolding a group of women. The music used in the film ironically points to its disturbing message and is uniformly anachronistic.

A graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University from the 1960s enters into a confrontation with the Albanian dictator and ends up in prison.

A graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University from the 1960s enters into a confrontation with the Albanian dictator and ends up in prison.