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
12 (
2007) | IMDb:
7.6
A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.
Starring:
Sergei Makovetsky
,
Nikita Mikhalkov
,
Sergey Garmash
,
Valentin Gaft
,
Aleksey Petrenko
,
Yuriy Stoyanov
Directed by:
Nikita Mikhalkov
Quiet Flows The Don (
2006) | IMDb:
4.8
With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.
Starring:
Rupert Everett
,
Delphine Forest
,
F. Murray Abraham
,
Ben Gazzara
,
Lorenzo Amato
,
Natalya Andreychenko
Produced by:
Enzo Rispoli
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
Burnt by the Sun (
1994) | IMDb:
7.8
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
The Red Tent (
1969) | IMDb:
6.9
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Starring:
Peter Finch
,
Sean Connery
,
Claudia Cardinale
,
Hardy Krüger
,
Eduard Martsevich
,
Grigori Gaj