Blonde Lilia and brunette Violetta are fascinated by horse racing, and the young racers are more than a little attracted to them, too. However, the worlds of sporting and romance don't always coexist peacefully as the two girls learn the hard way through a series of touching, surreal, and sometimes heartbreaking encounters. One of the most beautifully photographed Russian films in recent years, this acclaimed modern classic was hailed at numerous film festivals including the Berlin Film Festival and Russia's Kinotavr Festival, where it won the Jury and Critics Prizes. Amazon
Old Blind Woman
A woman investigates the disappearance of her friend and her own murky past when she travels to a mysterious convent on a barren island.
A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...
남편을 잃은 슬픔에 잠긴 나타샤는 홀로 도시를 떠돌며 종종 충동적인 행위를 한다. 한편 문학 교사인 니콜라이는 자신의 일은 물론 학생들, 나아가 사회에도 별 관심이 없다. 기면증까지 갖고 있는 그는 주위 사람들과는 다른 리듬으로 살아간다. 영화는 두 사람의 메마른 표정과 도시의 삭막한 풍경, 그리고 기묘한 사건을 제시하며 공산주의 체제 붕괴 이후 러시아 사회의 단면을 강렬한 이미지로 포착한다. 1990년 베를린영화제 은곰상 수상
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