Village of Women (2019)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 32M
Director : Tamara Stepanyan
Sinopse
Only women, children and old people live in this Armenian village, while the men work in Russia. A life with a rhythm of its own, an independent daily life marked nonetheless by exile.
Based on the Ukrainian vaudeville by Mykhaylo Staritsky, the famous Ukrainian writer. The leading character, Svirid Petrovich Golokhvosty had his own barbershop in town and a reputation of a dandy. Once, after losing everything he had at cards, he decided to remedy his financial situation by a profitable marriage. A rich but ugly girl named Pronya Sirko fell for the illustrious suitor’s courtship...
A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad king, but because of the horror of the king's acts, he feels that he must remove him from the throne.
Rakel, Marta, Karin e Annette são casadas com quatro irmãos. Enquanto esperam numa cabana de verão para que seus maridos voltem para casa, elas contam histórias umas as outras sobre os seus casamentos. Rakel fala sobre o tempo que ela teve um caso e confrontou o marido com isso. A história de Marta é sobre como ela a princípio se recusou a casar e teve seu filho sozinha. Karin fala sobre o que aconteceu quando uma vez ela e o seu marido ficaram presos num elevador. Enquanto as mulheres contam as suas histórias, a irmã mais nova de Marta, Maj, está a planear fugir.
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.
Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimir Putin and his promise of a greater Russia, her dedication as an organizer is rewarded with a university scholarship, an apartment, and a job as a spokesperson. But her bright political future falters when she befriends a group of liberal journalists who are critical of the government, including blogger Oleg Kashin, who calls Nashi a "group of hooligans," and she's forced to confront the group's dirty – even violent – tactics.
A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here. He'll take you to the world of your dreams, where you will be loved and happy." The neighbours told jokes about her, children teased her, but she waited for her prince. She trusted in the miracles and waited. Arthur Gray's rule was "if you can make a miracle, do it!". And he made a miracle for the wonderful romantic girl.
St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he's in the city, and Oblomov's life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga's, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?
In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions.
This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her father back for this operation. Anna is a tough-minded, headstrong woman with little feeling for her fathers homeland or patience with its politics and socially intrusive culture, yet she finds this journey not only a reunion of sorts, but one of reconciliation as well.
The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.
Anna Karenina, casada um alto funcionário do governo russo, envolve-se com o Conde Vronsky, oficial da cavalaria, chocando a alta sociedade de 1874. Ela pede o divórcio, mas o marido, além de se recusar a concedê-lo, ainda a impede de ver o filho.
Zuhtu, a nosy hawker who sells meatballs, one night finds a young girl escaping from her cruel relatives. He intends to help the girl but this costs him too much.
Na virada do século 19, a família Ratowitz emigra da Rússia para os Estados Unidos em busca de uma vida melhor. Não há gatos na América e as ruas são pavimentadas com queijo, acreditam eles. Chegando em Nova York, o pequeno ratinho Fievel fica maravilhado com a cidade e se perde dos pais. Começa uma incrível saga de encontros, desencontros, novas amizades e velhas ameaças através das perigosas ruas.
Após ser educado com a Revolução Cubana e premiado nacionalmente por seu trabalho, o escritor Reynaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem) termina sendo preso e, posteriormente, exilado de seu país-natal. O longa aborda a vida de Reynaldo Arenas, desde sua infância pobre até seu exílio em Nova York, passando pelo horror e preconceito sofrido ainda em Cuba, pelo fato de ser homossexual.
Após uma terrível tragédia, um lutador de artes marciais isola-se em uma vila remota com o intuito de desenvolver uma nova visão das coisas importantes da vida. Porém, quando ele retorna para a cidade para reconciliar o passado com o presente, acaba tendo que lutar em defesa da honra da China.
Após abandonar a União Soviética, em 1929, Trotsky consegue asilo no México. Em 1940, na capital, onde cuida de plantas e aparenta levar uma vida simples, um agente de Stalin, o espanhol de codinome Frank Jackson, começa a persegui-lo para assassiná-lo.
Berlim, logo após a Segunda Guerra Mundial. CR MacNamara preside a filial da Coca -Cola da Alemanha. Ele está trabalhando duro e tenta dar o seu melhor para impressionar a sede em Atlanta, uma vez que ele já ouviu falar que a sede europeia em Londres em breve estará vaga e estão à procura de um novo chefe. Porém o Sr. Hazeltine, Vice Presidente da Coca-Cola, pede a MacNamara para cuidar de sua filha Scarlett, quem vai fazer uma viagem pela Europa. Scarlett, no entanto, não se comporta da maneira que uma menina jovem respeitável de sua idade deveria. E começa a confusão.