Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus (
2010) | IMDb:
4.3
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in the front-lines. His daughter, Nadia, who survived a rape attempt by Nazi soldiers, is now a nurse risking her own life to save others. In the war-torn nation even former enemies are fighting together to defend their land. People stand up united for the sake of victory. Written by Steve Shelokhonov
Starring:
Nikita Mikhalkov
,
Oleg Menshikov
,
Evgeny Mironov
,
Dmitriy Dyuzhev
,
Artur Smolyaninov
,
Andrey Merzlikin
Directed by:
Nikita Mikhalkov
The Barber of Siberia (
1998) | IMDb:
7.7
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Starring:
Julia Ormond
,
Oleg Menshikov
,
Aleksey Petrenko
,
Richard Harris
,
Vladimir Ilin
,
Marat Basharov