With THE MIRROR, legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky crafts perhaps his most profound and compelling film. What started off for Tarkovsky as a planned series of interviews with his own ... Read more
Kurosawa's remarkable film - his only produced and financed outside of Japan - is an extraordinary tale of friendship and survival, based on the memoirs of Russian explorer Vladimir Arseniev. In the ... Read more
A visually hypnotising cinematic feat, RUSSIAN ARK is Alexander Sokurov's spellbinding ode to St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum. Shot in one fluid take using High Definition video cameras, the ... Read more
With a visually stunning, quiet intensity, director Alexander Sokurov awakens the senses to the world of nature, human relationships, and death in this film about the poignant last hours of a dying ... Read more
Earth (AKA Zemlya) is the third of Soviet director Alexander Dovzhenko's Ukraine tetralogy (Zvenigora (1928), Arsenal (1929), and Ivan (1932) are the other films in the series). The story tells of a ... Read more
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the 'Melancholy Dane' was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, ... Read more
A film about the most primal of instruments, the human voice, portraying three artists who develop traditional Swiss music in very different and unconventional ways.
The small number of Russian films which were shown in Britain in the late 1920s and early 1930s excited the attention of British filmmakers and writers, and played a central role in developing ideas ... Read more