Статский Советник
Counsellor of the State (2005)
Based on Boris Akunin's novel of the same name, Counsellor of the State, is set at the end of the 19th Century, as the rule of the Russian Empire is crumbling. Starring the finest ensemble of Russian actors today, the film is a classic who-dun-it, involving heads of governments, famous detectives and the cream of Russian society...Read More

Итальянец
The Italian (2005)

Six-year-old Vanya, an orphan, is supposed to be adopted by an Italian family – that is why he is called The Italian....Read More

Не Хлебом Единым
Not By Bread Alone (2005)
From acclaimed Russian Director, Stanislav Govorukhin. Based on Vladimir Dudintsev's novel of the same name, Not By Bread Alone is set in the years just after the end of World War II...Read More

Первые на Луне
First on the Moon (2005)
Spring 1938. A UFO crashes in the North of Chile. An inquiry reveals that the object was actually a Soviet rocket and evidence of a top-secret space program of the 1930’s unfolds...Read More

Охота на Пиранью
Pirahna (2006)
Pirahna broke all records at the Russian Box office for 2006 when the film opened. This high energy action adventure movie has all the bravado and tension of Die Hard...Read More

9 Рота
Ninth Company (2005)
No film making nation in the world, is able to reproduce the horrors and realism of war, as Russian film makers seem to be able to do. And, Ninth Company continues the tradition of classic Russian War...Read More

Русский Бунт
The Captain’s Daughter (2001)
The Captain’s Daughter, is a visually beautiful interpretation of the classic story by famous Russian poet and writer Alexander Pushkin. In the late 1700s, Cossack Pugachev led a bloody revolt to infamously challenge the status quo of the country...Read More

Нанкинский Пейзаж
The Nankin Landscape (2006)
The Nankin Landscape is a tale of ambivalence and destructive duplicity - a ballad of the loneliness of a person who somewhere along the way has betrayed his love....Read More

Питер FM
Petersburg FM (2006)
Masha, is a DJ with a popular St. Petersburg radio station preparing to marry her former schoolmate, while Maxim, is a young architect who has won an international architects’ competition and is preparing to go to work in Germany. But neither of them are sure that this is what they really want....Read More


A tribute to the great Andrei Tarkovsky

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Солярис
Solaris (1972)
Andrei Tarkovsky's adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's cult 1961 novel - about a cosmonaut psychologist (Donatas Banionis) who experiences strange visions when he visits a distant space station....Read More

Андрей Рублёв
Andrei Rublev (1969)
Andrei Rublev is internationally acclaimed as a cinema masterpiece. In a recent article on Tarkovsky (Sight & Sound), 27 critics from around the world were asked to list the twentieth century's 12 best films 'from the point of view of history' and 'from the point of view of film criticism'....Read More

Зеркало
The Mirror (1975)
A rarely seen, yet pivotal film in Tarkovsky’s career, is The Mirror. The narrative travels between conscious and subconscious, past and present, mixing flashbacks, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II....Read More

"Tarkovsky is one of the true poets of the cinema."
Anna Dzenis, LaTrobe University

"When I was working on Solaris I was concerned with the same subject as in Andrei Rublev. The human being. These two films are only separated by the time the action is taking place."
Andrei Tarkovsky

"Tarkovsky is for me the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream." Ingmar Bergman