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Andrei Rublev / The Passion According to Andrei.
Andrei Rublev is set against the background of 15th century Russia. Although the film is only loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev, its depiction of medieval Russia is realistic. Tarkovsky created a film that shows the artist as "a world-historic figure" and "Christianity as an axiom of Russiaâs historical identity"[1] during a turbulent period of Russian history, that ultimately resulted in the Tsardom of Russia. The film is about the essence of art and the importance of faith and shows an artist who tries to find the appropriate response to the tragedies of his time. The film is also about artistic freedom and the possibility and necessity of making art for, and in the face of, a repressive authority and its hypocrisy, technology and empiricism, by which knowledge is acquired on one's own without reliance on authority, and the role of the individual, communnity, and government in the making of both spiritual and epic art. Because of the films's religious themes and political ambiguity, it was unreleased in the atheistic and authoritarian Soviet Union for years after it was completed, except for a single screening in Moscow. A cut version of the film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969, where it won the FIPRESCI prize. In 1971 a censored version of the film released in the Soviet Union. The film was further cut for commercial reasons upon release in the US in 1973. Because of this several versions of the film exist. Today Andrei Rublev is widely regarded as a masterpiece and one of Tarkovsky's best works. By opinion poll of the members of the European Academy of Film and Television (1995), this motion picture was recognized one of the worldâs ten best films (8th place).
A supernatural thriller set in Siberia but shot entirely in Sweden with russian and swedish actors. Written, produced, filmed and edited by Jan Sandström at the independent production platform Janowski Productions.
This cinematic expression of the authorâs reflections is one of the best films of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. Its working title was âWhite, White Dayâ. Quoted in the film are some of the verses by the remarkable poet Arseny Tarkovsky, the directorâs father. The filmâs protagonist reminisces about his childhood, his mother who raised him, the people who helped his family in the trying post-war years. "In âMirrorâ I wanted to tell not about myself, but about my feelings, connected with the people that were close to me, about my relations with them, about my eternal compassion for them and the unrealizable sense of duty," said Andrei Tarkovsky.
soldier, returning from WWI is caught in the haos of Civil War
For those who loves history movies must see this one. Action occurs in VI century,on the sunset of the Roman empire . Film narrates about the first victories of the Slavs above the nomads, and then combined by an ancient Russians tribes headed by By Ratibor by the son Of Vseslava,above Byzantium. In the first part of film shows the attack Of khazars on one of the Russian cities.After attack the leader of this city decides that Russian tribes necessary to make a union against khazars, otherwise the enemies will not stop. He calls council, the part of the tribes to agrees to help him others doesn't. In the second part Russian tribes fighting with the khazars and defeating them, earlier they makes peace agreement with the Byzantium butt the Byzantium betrayed them so the tribes decides to attack them to and and they seize Konstantinopol the capital of the empire.
This is a wonderful fairy love story. Magician met a young strong bear in the forest and turned him into a man. And he will turn into a bear if a princess kisses you... The Bear meets a lovely Princess and falls in love. The princess falls in love too. How dare you not to kiss a girl? This movie has always been a romantic inspiration. I understand, that for Western movie fans it must look too simple but Mark Zakharov is a theatric director, so it is actually a movie PLAY, having a touch of theater.
The Dawns Here Are Quiet (Russian: РзоÑи здеÑÑ ÑÐ¸Ñ Ð¸Ðµ, 1972) is a feature film directed by Stanislav Rostotsky based on Boris Vasilyev's novel of the same name. In 1973 the film was nominated for an Oscar in the "Best Foreign Language Film" category. The film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a railway station far from the front line, senior sergeant Vaskov is stationed with a group of young female anti-aircraft gunners. Suddenly German paratroopers appear in the forest near their garrison. The senior sergeant and five female gunners, though outgunned and outnumbered, fight the Germans in the forest. All five female soldiers are killed during the course of the film, but in the end all sixteen German paratroopers are either killed or captured.
The film is based on a science-fiction novel by Polish writer Stanislav Lem. This is a reflection on the themes of cosmos, Earth, man, human conscience, life, death and responsibility before the future. Solaris is a planet, capable of materializing the earth peopleâs reminiscences about their home which they left on Earth and their relatives who had died long ago. This mysterious planet had intrigued people for years. The Solaris Ocean is a gigantic live brain whose riddle the filmâs protagonists are trying to solve. But all their attempts contact the unknown civilization end in failure. Meanwhile, strange things happen on the space stationâ¦
Documentary about Andrei Tarkovsky.
This is a sweet, kind, beautifully filmed story of life in the late fifties Moscow, as seen by a young student, come from the provinces to live with his elderly aunt (the talented and breathtakingly beautiful Sofiya Pilyavskaya), in a shadowy communal apartment. If you are not watching in translation, take note of the songs. The three main songs of this film are nearly the most famous fifties songs written by the late, great Bulat Okudzhava. This is a charming film. This is a movie you instantly fall in love with - romantic, refreshing, full of melody and extremely poetic. The actors are brilliant, they all make a history in cinema and theater. Shooting was made on the streets of good "old" Moscow, as stylish for some as Paris of 50s, Prague of 60s...
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