Nikita Mikhalkov

  • Georgi Daneliya – Ya shagayu po Moskve AKA I Walk Around Moscow (1964)

    1961-1970ComedyGeorgi DaneliyaRomanceUSSR

    A 1964 Soviet film directed by Georgiy Daneliya and produced by Mosfilm studios. It stars Nikita Mihalkov, Aleksei Loktev, Jevgeny Steblov and Galina Polskikh. The film also features cameos by four People’s Artists of the USSR: Rolan Bykov, Vladimir Basov, Lev Durov, and Inna Churikova.

    The famous movie theme, performed by Mikhalkov, was written by the composer Andrej Petrov. The film, regarded as one of the most characteristic of the Khrushchev Thaw, premiered at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and won a prize for the work of cameraman Vadim Yusov, best known for his subsequent collaboration with Andrei Tarkovsky.Read More »

  • Nikita Mikhalkov – 12 AKA 12 razgnevannyh muzhchin (2007) (HD)

    2001-2010CrimeDramaNikita MikhalkovRussia

    Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.Read More »

  • Nikita Mikhalkov – 12 aka 12 razgnevannyh muzhchin (2007)

    2001-2010CrimeDramaNikita MikhalkovRussia

    Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.Read More »

  • Eldar Ryazanov – Zhestokiy romans AKA A Cruel Romance (1984)

    1981-1990DramaEldar RyazanovRomanceUSSR

    A lavish two-part costume tragedy based on the classic The Dowerless Girl by the nineteenth-century playwright Alexander Ostrovsky, A Cruel Romance (also known as Ruthless Romance) was the biggest Soviet box-office hit of 1984, though it seems to have had little international exposure until now.

    It marked a change of direction for the veteran Eldar Ryazanov, who up to then had tended to specialise in contemporary comedy, though it seems to have done his career little harm: he was made a People’s Artist of the Soviet Union that year – and no wonder, quite apart from the film’s commercial success, its mostly wart-ridden portrait of the venal, money-grubbing bourgeoisie of the then-discredited Tsarist era must have gone down a storm with the Soviet authorities.Read More »

  • Aleksei Balabanov – Zhmurki AKA Dead Man’s Bluff [+Extras] (2005)

    2001-2010Aleksei BalabanovArthouseComedyRussia

    Quote:
    When brothers Simon and Sergei bungle an important drug deal on behalf of the local crime kingpin, they’re forced to make up for it by retrieving a lost batch of heroin. Trouble is, they have no idea where to begin. This shrewd gangster satire includes some 20 Russian film stars among its ensemble cast, cleverly costuming each big name to leave viewers guessing who’s who.Read More »

  • Eldar Ryazanov – Vokzal dlya dvoikh AKA Railway Station For Two (1983)

    1981-1990DramaEldar RyazanovRomanceUSSR

    Summary:
    Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn’t even touch and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His passport is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera’s fiancé, and his money is stolen as he waits for the next train to Griboedov. Vera learns that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to prison in the Far East for a car accident he isn’t guilty for. During the few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other…
    – Written by Denis ChebikinRead More »

  • Andrei Konchalovsky – Sibiriada aka Siberiade (1979)

    1971-1980Andrei KonchalovskyDramaEpicUSSR

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    This ambitious 1979 Russian film attempts no less a feat than the encapsulation of the tumultuous history of Russia in the 20th century. Written and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky (Runaway Train, Tango and Cash), the film weaves an engrossing tale of three generations of two Russian families in the remote region of Siberia, each trying in their own way to find fulfillment in their lives as they seek to reconcile themselves with the ever-changing landscape of their homeland. Sandwiched between the chaotic events of the First and Second World Wars, as well as the Russian Revolution of 1917, the people of the small village find themselves at the cusp of great changes, from communications to the expanding infrastructure and the changes that brings, to the discovery of oil and the riches and perils that come with it. Konchalovsky juxtaposes archival footage with stunning cinematography and contrasts the assaultive changes of the modern world with the timeless impulses of family and the enduring need to adapt and survive. Reminiscent of such great films as Giant and 1900, Siberiade is a visually adept and stunningly effective epic about the price of a country’s history on its people. —Robert Lane
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  • Nikita Mikhalkov – Sibirskiy tsiryulnik aka The Barber Of Siberia [+Extras] (1998)

    1991-2000ComedyNikita MikhalkovRomanceRussiaUSSR

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    Richard Harris stars as 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. Julia Ormond portrays his assistant, who falls in love with a young Russian officer, played by Russian star Oleg Menshikov, and spends the next 10 years perfecting the harvester and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia.
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  • Nikita Mikhalkov – Raba lyubvi AKA A Slave of Love (1976)

    1971-1980DramaNikita MikhalkovUSSR

    Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson (from allmovie.com)
    Nikita Mikhalkov examines the plight of the filmmaker operating in an uncertain political climate in his irony-laden seriocomedy Slave of Love. The time is 1918, at the height of the Bolshevik revolution. A small group of filmmakers are hurriedly trying to complete a silent melodrama while the world changes all around them. As production progresses, leading lady Elena Solovei metamorphoses from self-centered movie star to committed revolutionary. Normally described as “Chekhovian,” director Mikhalkov borrows a few pages from Pirandello. With Slave of Love he gained his first serious international attention.Read More »

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