I promised, I will go ... [Ya obeshala, ya ujdu...], 1992

I promised, I will go ... | Ya obeshala, ya ujdu...

Year		1992
Country		Russia Israel
Director		Valerij Ahadov
Screenwriter		Evgenij Kozlovskij
Producer		Ismail Tagi-zade
Operator		Vladimir Dmitrievskij
Composer		Mikael Tariverdiev
Artist		Vyacheslav Vidanov Svetlana Sladkovskaya
Editor		Elena Klimenko
Genre		Drama [play]
Duration		89 min. / 01:29
Actors		Elena Korikova Zurab Magalishvili Sofiko Chiaureli Pavel Semenihin Natal'ya Korogodova Oleg Shklovskij Badri Baramidze Irina Akulova Igor' Pushkarev Karlo Sakandelidze
Rating		6.96 / 10 [votes: 81]
IMDB Rating		2.10 / 10 [votes: 7]

Meeting with Georgian guy distract hopelessly sick girl from the experience. With his parents' heroes travel to Israel for medical advice. It turns out that she is healthy. It seemed that life was adjusted ... But their happiness does not last long: to replace the sadness comes another one ...

Review

Once seen on television movie Valery Akhadova initially perceived as a "burning tears of melodrama" (not a coincidence that in 1994 Ahadov arranged in Magnitogorsk, which was working in the theater, a special film festival more noble name "Crystal Tears"). But here's an unconventional ending with voluntary death of the heroine, which still could not meet even rash promise to his beloved die, made quite a different look at the tape.


Valery Ahadov works pretty smoothly - successful pictures ("Who is going to Truskavets?", "Family Secrets"), and not very successful ("Ruth") alternate with all checkpoints, random, supposedly removed forcibly. And in the film "I promised, I'll go ..." to detect signs of unpretentious, negligence, haste, though hectic period "mnogokartinya" that occurred in the late 90's, it seems to not only set out clearly and intelligibly, but also as Development of the more stylistically justifiable and artistic interpretation.

This band started as usual melodrama about a girl from somewhere in the Urals, who accidentally discovered by a local doctor that she had, in all probability, breast cancer - and to live very long. Then the story gets adventurous (crazy ride in his car to the Black Sea, the deception of the young businessmen of Georgian) and romantic (the meeting with the beautiful and noble prince - the future architect Tomaz actually belongs to the family of the Georgian princes). He appeared as if from their own dreams girls, but their love of the "on the edge of the abyss" and amid the beauties of Tbilisi and Tel Aviv to give her the necessary history "touches hysterical" - just like in the play "The Lady of the Camellias", excerpts of which we sometimes wedged into the narrative.


But modern Violetta, by the way, amazingly thin, delicate and exquisitely played by Elena Korikovoy another three years before her success in "Mistress into Maid" is neither a lady of the demimonde, inexorably fading from consumption, or (later discover) terminally ill, which surely must leave her Armand. However, the gap between the two lovers, who had already combined seemingly doomed marriage, it is still going on - and not metaphysical, but by long-known issue of class (and ethnic - part of a new, post-Soviet) prejudice.

And instead of suffering, and the final happy reunion parted loved ones, whose ways and views about again intersect at one point and now forever, is something that breaks the traditional system verified melodrama. Of course, "Lady of the Camellias" can be seen as a case avtoevtanazii, slow mortification. But the young heroine of the novel Yevgeny Kozlovsky, served as the basis for the film Valeria Akhadova, passes away quietly, as if just fallen asleep on the seat coaches still solves it in an instant, dramatic force of will, and most importantly - a sense of self-esteem: "I promised, I'll go! ".

If it were not for the music ... It was Michael Tariverdiev music, even for him, not quite familiar instrumented (just like the style of Oleg Karavaychuk in the 70's), originally perceived as an imbalance of this sad story, gradually perceived even in the harmonic terms. She - as a kind of hymn to light detachment of being, which is not completed abroad death, and goes on and on in a different time and place, in the infinite otherness. And the transition to those unfamiliar with life outside is not terrible, but at peace and rest. Most Tariverdiyeva not become in this world in 4 years - but there was his music, as the good news from wherever, promising or not promising, they leave.

Kolyma. Trilogy [Kolyma. Trilogiya], 1991

Kolyma. Trilogy | Kolyma. Trilogiya

Year		1991
Country		Russia
Director		Mihail Miheev
Screenwriter		K. Nikolaev Mihail Miheev Varlam Shalamov
Producer		N. Oboznova
Operator		A. Andreev
Composer		Dmitrij Pavlov
Artist		Kirill Moshkovich
Editor		G. Mazhar
Genre		Documentary Drama [play] History
Duration		192 min. / 03:12
Actors		Sergej Kozyrev
Rating		8.00 / 10 [votes: 7]

These people survived the Second World War and immediately fell in the "death camp", the Kolyma. At least two million people were in captivity in Germany. This was seen as a betrayal of the motherland, Article 58. Death camps - an innovation NKVD operated flawlessly. It was aimed at the destruction of the "enemies of the people".

No, they did not kill, people simply do not stand up, zvereli and destroy each other, someone died from disease, cold and hunger. In the film, several of rehabilitated prisoners talk about their cruel fate, that very few people know that was held in strict secrecy for years. This nuance "convict" life, wild and fierce.

MOVIE 1 - "The Story of a trust" Dilapidated wooden buildings, empty eye sockets of windows, bunks in the barracks, the stars in the towers, a rickety fence, a wooden bridge - either to freedom, whether in the end - is all that remains of one of the countless Stalin camps. "Stone promised to keep secret" - now it protects only the countless bodies of victims of the regime, were buried here. It all started in the 30s ..

MOVIE 2 - "Face to Face" civilian workers, former prisoners and the children born in the camps continue to show. The end of the 30's - early 40's. for prisoners abounded important events. First expected changes due to the removal of Yezhov and Beria's appointment. But instead of change went indiscriminate shootings ...

MOVIE 3 - "The war after the war" from the mountain, which has a cracked old "cup" high-voltage transmission lines, are the ruins of the camp. Chronicle - soldiers of the Great Patriotic meet with victory and with flowers. In parallel with these trains were other trains that are not met by flowers. Those who traveled in them - military prisoners, immigrants - from German captivity were sent to the Soviet prisoners in the camp. They wanted to return home, but instead received a tribunal and jail. Began again denunciations, to tighten, and the handcuffs were put numbers that are now replaced with the names .... Among prisoners created underground organizations, people went into hiding. They are shot, dead bodies lay unburied for weeks fugitives to frighten, but they still ran - drove the excitement of freedom and human dignity. Death was a common thing ... This film authors have devoted innocently murdered, our brothers and sisters, found peace in Kolyma anonymously on cold ground.

Masha (TV) [Mashen'ka (TV)], 1991

Masha (TV) | Mashen'ka (TV)

Year		1991
Country		Russia
Director		Tamara Pavluchenko
Screenwriter		Svetlana Konovalova Vladimir Nabokov
Operator		Boris Dunaev
Composer		Urij Bucko
Genre		Drama [play]
Duration		76 min. / 01:16
Actors		Anastasiya Zavorotnuk Urij Yakovlev Yanina Lisovskaya Mariya Selyanskaya Galina Stahanova Elena Ivochkina Boris Plotnikov Anton Yakovlev Mihail Botting
Rating		6.02 / 10 [votes: 46]

Berlin, 20's, guest house, home to Russian immigrants. One of the characters in the film, is expected to visit his wife, shows a picture of her neighbor to the guesthouse, which recognizes her first love - Masha ...

Putana [Putana], 1991

Putana | Putana

Year		1991
Country		Russia
Director		Aleksandr Isaev
Screenwriter		Aleksandr Isaev
Operator		Vadim Avloshenko
Composer		Evgenij Doga
Genre		Drama [play]
Actors		Elena Shevchenko Ekaterina Kmit Irina Bezrukova Aleksandr Slastin
Rating		5.96 / 10 [votes: 26]

A few days in the life of working women of the oldest profession...

Shadow over Moscow [Ten' nad Moskvoi], 1990

Shadow over Moscow | Ten' nad Moskvoi

Year		1990
Country		Russia
Director		Vladimir Men'shov
Producer		Ulrich John Ralph T. Niemeyer
Editor		Vladimir Inashvili
Genre		Drama [play]
Premiere date (Russia)		July 7, 1990
Actors
Rating		0.00

Purification [Ochishenie], 1990

Purification | Ochishenie

Year		1990
Country		Russia
Director		Dmitrij Shinkarenko
Screenwriter		Dmitrij Shinkarenko Leonid Andreev
Operator		Valentin Piganov Andrej Vacura
Composer		Igor' Kefalidi
Artist		Mihail Bogdanov Pavel Ilyshev Tat'yana Chapaeva
Editor		Tat'yana Belousova
Genre		Drama [play]
Premiere date (world)		January 25, 2007
Duration		86 min. / 01:26
Actors		Aleksandr Baluev Anna Kamenkova Ekaterina Rozhkova Oksana Zhgutova Roman Kravcov Vladimir Treshalov Fedor Valikov Valerij Gataev Valerij Godzev Nikolaj Ispolatov
Rating		6.17 / 10 [votes: 18]

Film is based on a story by Leonid Andreyev "Life Basil Thebes", the fate of the village priest Basil, who passed through a great many troubles, renounces God, to a still greater grief regain faith - true.

Review

"Purification" - a mystical drama about the fate of the priest, his crazy wife, drunkards, their daughters, mocks his parents and sick son, imagining her mother's dreams.

The film was shot on one of the taboo in the Soviet Union, so it shows the spiritual elevation of the main character, speaking of the existence of God, as immutable dogma. However, the main character, the priest loses faith in God.

Acting in a film on top. Each of the actors plays so that it seems as if his character - the main. The game also Balueva beyond all praise.

The film is striking in its directness, sincerity, and mysticism. He was removed to the public, but, first of all, for people who believe.

The Seven who were hanged [Rasskaz o semi poveshennyh], 1920

The Seven who were hanged | Rasskaz o semi poveshennyh

Year		1920
Country		Russia
Director		Petr Chardynin Nikolaj Saltykov
Screenwriter		Petr Chardynin Leonid Andreev
Operator		Grigorij Drobin Aleksandr Grinberg
Artist		Nikolaj Suvorov Aleksej Utkin
Genre		Drama [play]
Actors
Rating		10.00 / 10 [votes: 1]

Runners [Beguny], 1918

Runners | Beguny

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Aleksandr Chargonin
Operator		Urij Zhelyabuzhskij
Artist		Viktor Simov
Genre		Drama [play]
Duration		65 min. / 01:05
Actors		Sergej Golovin Nadezhda Bazilevskaya Tat'yana Kraskovskaya Maria Kryshanovskaya P. Romanov G. Sarmatov A. Vyrubov
Rating		10.00 / 10 [votes: 1]

Drama series of revelatory "seeking God" dedicated sect "runners". Second movies "Whips" and "White Doves."

Maid Jenny [Gornichnaya Dzhenni], 1918

Maid Jenny | Gornichnaya Dzhenni

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Yakov Protazanov
Screenwriter		Yakov Protazanov
Producer		Dzhozef N. Ermol'eff
Operator		Fedot Burgasov
Artist		Vladimir Balluzek
Genre		Drama [play]
Premiere date (Russia)		February 26, 1918
Duration		60 min. / 01:00
Actors		Ol'ga Gzovskaya Vladimir Gajdarov Ol'ga Kondorova Iona Talanov Dmitrij Buhoveckij Vladimir Balluzek V. Mak S. Pavlova
Rating		7.00 / 10 [votes: 14]
IMDB Rating		6.90 / 10 [votes: 5]

After the death of Count Chambery his wife and daughter were left without means of subsistence. Seeing no other way out, a young woman settles maid in the house of Baroness Angers.

Snowstorm [Metel'], 1918

Snowstorm | Metel'

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Nikolaj Malikov
Screenwriter		Ol'ga Gzovskaya Fedor Ocep Aleksandr Pushkin
Operator		Urij Zhelyabuzhskij
Genre		Drama [play]
Premiere date (Russia)		1918,
Actors		Ol'ga Gzovskaya Konstantin Hohlov Vladimir Gajdarov Fedor Dunaev Varvara Ryzhova Sergej Sergievich Lubov' Dmitrevskaya
Rating		0.00

Pater Sergius [Otec Sergij], 1918

Pater Sergius | Otec Sergij

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Yakov Protazanov
Screenwriter		Aleksandr Volkov Lev Tolstoj
Producer		Dzhozef N. Ermol'eff
Operator		Fedot Burgasov Nikolaj Rudakov
Composer		Evgenij Bukke
Artist		Vladimir Balluzek Alexandre Lochakoff V. Vorob'ev
Genre		Drama [play] Biography History
Premiere date (world)		October 18, 1920
Duration		70 min. / 01:10
Actors		Ivan Mozzhuhin Ol'ga Kondorova V. Dzheneeva Vladimir Gajdarov Nikolaj Panov Natal'ya Lisenko Iona Talanov Vera Orlova Petr Baksheev Polikarp Pavlov
Rating		7.95 / 10 [votes: 246]
IMDB Rating		6.90 / 10 [votes: 163]

Prince Kasatsky was rich and ambitious. He dreamed of a military career and the love of beautiful women. Fate smiled at him. But the day before the wedding, he learned that his bride - the mistress of the Emperor. In desperation, the prince renounced the world and retired to a monastery ...

Did you know that ...

» For the first time its intention to film the story of Tolstoy Protazanov said while working on the production of "Queen of Spades", and in 1916, "Father Sergius" was even announced in the advertising company J. Yermolyeva. But at the time production of "Father Sergius" would be at least difficult, since acted censored image in the feature films of the royal family and members of the clergy.
» The film was shot in late 1917 - early 1918.
» During the filming of James Protazanov ill for some time and it is replaced with the set written by Alexander Volkov.
» Composer Eugene Bukke was written original music, which was accompanied by a demonstration of the movie.
» The surviving version of the film has a duration of 79 minutes.
» On the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy in 1978 was made a new film adaptation - the movie "Father Sergius" put director Igor Talankin, and starred Sergei Bondarchuk.

Review

This Russian film is in many ways unique. He was removed after the revolution, in the private cinema partnership Joseph Yermolyeva but widely demonstrated in the Soviet box office, and in 1928, the centenary of Leo Tolstoy, reissued and not much later taken out of the cinematic treatment, even then was shown on television. At the same time was taken out in 1920 by Yakov Protazanov abroad and members of his crew, went to France, became known and well received in Europe.

Being a creative result of all of the pre-revolutionary Russian cinema, this tape can undoubtedly be included in the context of world cinema as a rare example of an early breakthrough to the depth of understanding of human psychology on the screen. If we evaluate the product Protazanov (which, of course, would not take place without accurate and surprisingly stingy foreign manner of playing Ivan Mozzhukhina) from the point of view of anticipation in film aesthetics, "interior monologue" and the attempt to transfer the on-screen line of thought and experiences of the hero, the closest analogues would appear, movies Scandinavian School (Victor Sjöström, Maurice Stiller) and a number of German films (such as "The Last Man" Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau).

High artistic value "Father Sergius" is further enhanced when compared with the previous Russian cinema experience and the subsequent phase of the Soviet cinema 20s, when even recognized masterpieces undoubtedly inferior film Yakov Protazanov just in the complexity and volume of the hero, a realistic completeness and credibility of his behavior on the screen. Perhaps only some of the bands of the decade, has emerged at the turn of the New Economic Policy (such as: "A man from the restaurant" and the "White Eagle" of the same Protazanov "The Living Corpse" by Fyodor cordoned off again on Tolstoy), can be compared with "Pater Sergius"on the ambiguity of human images and psychological nuances of behavior.

Moreover, in contrast to the next, to some extent, in the wake of his "Polikushka" (again adaptation of the novel "Father Leo", was filmed in 1919, but released on the Soviet screen only in 1922), the work of James Protazanov not stay in one only play a leading performer. And Ivan Mozzhukhin as an experienced actor, will still be stronger than his debut on screen in the role Polikushka outstanding theatrical master Ivan Moskvin. "Pater Sergius" is a solid, verified in style, memorable cinematic works in which talent Mozzhukhina - as one of the polished faces of this "true film diamonds".

Last Tango [Poslednee tango], 1918

Last Tango | Poslednee tango

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Vyacheslav Viskovskij
Screenwriter		Ajza Kremer
Operator		Vladimir Siversen
Artist		Aleksej Utkin
Genre		Drama [play]
Premiere date (Russia)		May 31, 1918
Duration		10 min.
Actors		A. Aleksandrov Vera Holodnaya Ivan Hudoleev Osip Runich
Rating		7.43 / 10 [votes: 28]
IMDB Rating		2.80 / 10 [votes: 5]

The film "Last Tango" is based on the words of the song which sung singer Iza Kremer, speaking at that time in Odessa.

Paradise without Adam [Raj bez Adama], 1918

Paradise without Adam | Raj bez Adama

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Viktor Turzhanskij
Operator		Nikolaj Kozlovskij
Genre		Drama [play]
Actors		A. Roben Dmitrij Zeland Ivan Gorskij N. Vasil'kovskij
Rating		0.00

Devil's heart [Serdce d'yavola], 1918

Devil heart | Serdce d'yavola

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Viktor Turzhanskij
Genre		Drama [play]
Actors
Rating		10.00 / 10 [votes: 1]

Spade dug a deep pit... [Vyryta zastupom yama glubokaya...], 1917

Spade dug a deep pit... | Vyryta zastupom yama glubokaya...

Year		1917
Country		Russia
Director		Aleksandr Chargonin
Screenwriter		Aleksandr Chargonin Ivan Nikitin
Operator		Urij Zhelyabuzhskij
Genre		Drama [play]
Premiere date (Russia)		January 1, 1918
Actors		Elena Ramonova Aleksandr Chargonin A. Missan Elizarov
Rating		8.00 / 10 [votes: 1]

Russian domestic drama based on the story of the same name of Nikitin poem.