Masterpieces of the Hermitage (mini-series) [Shedevry Ermitazha (mini-serial)], 1992

Masterpieces of the Hermitage (mini-series) | Shedevry Ermitazha (mini-serial)

Year		1992
Country		USA Russia
Director		L. Shvarc
Screenwriter		S'uzen Yang
Producer		Sandra Karter Harvi Chertok Nina Gerasimova
Editor		Jeffrey Leif
Duration		540 min.
Actors		R. Parsons
Rating		1.00 / 10 [votes: 1]
IMDB Rating		6.80 / 10 [votes: 10]

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.

Whirlpool [Vodovorot], 1991

Whirlpool | Vodovorot

Year		1991
Country		Russia Romania Moldova
Director		Oleg Tulaev
Screenwriter		Oleg Tulaev Nikolaj Esinenku
Producer		Igor' Talpa Eduard Kosovskij
Operator		Aleksandr Majka
Composer		Genadie Chobanu
Artist		Stefan Sadovnikov
Genre		Drama [play]
Duration		62 min. / 01:02
Actors		Aleksandr Yacko Alla Men'shikova Sergej Ungarov Al'gis Matulyonis
Rating		7.30 / 10 [votes: 10]

Cammy [Kammi], 1991

Cammy | Kammi

Year		1991
Country		Russia
Director		Dzhanik Fajziev
Screenwriter		Dzhanik Fajziev
Operator		Hamidulla Hasanov
Composer		Dmitrij Yanov
Genre		Drama [play]
Duration		75 min. / 01:15
Actors		Viktor Verzhbickij Marina Kobahidze Rano Kubaeva Bahtiyar Zakirov Svetlana Norbaeva Nazim Tulyahodzhaev
Rating		4.20 / 10 [votes: 10]
IMDB Rating		2.20 / 10 [votes: 7]

Jewish girl from Tashkent experiencing love drama, which came together three stories.

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 ...

The Leg [Noga], 1991

The Leg | Noga

Year		1991
Country		Russia
Slogan		"If you can not win your own, you have to kill him"
Director		Nikita Tyagunov
Screenwriter		Nadezhda Kozhushanaya Uil'yam Folkner
Producer		Aleksandr Mihajlov
Operator		Sergej Lubchenko
Composer		Oleg Karavajchuk
Artist		Nikolaj Saharov Vladimir Erofeev
Editor		V. Ostrinskaya
Genre		Insurgent [action film] Drama [play] War film [military]
Duration		87 min. / 01:27
Actors		Ivan Ohlobystin Petr Mamonov Ivan Zahava Natal'ya Petrova Farhad Mahmudov Ludmila Larionova Sherali Abdulkajsov Oksana Mysina M. Ajnetdinova D. Andrianov
Rating		7.41 / 10 [votes: 782]
IMDB Rating		7.10 / 10 [votes: 85]

The film's protagonist Valera - gay guy from Moscow, who at age 19 learned a whole hell of war in Afghanistan, where he lost a leg. Returning from the war, he had no idea what a nightmare for him is just beginning ...

Review

In 1925, the famous American writer William Faulkner wrote the short story "The Leg." In this work, it was a young student at Oxford Devi, who was to take part in the First World War and lost a leg in battle. Surreal story describes the struggle with all the evil Davy, which arose in him during the war and took on a ghostly form.

In 1991, a young film director Nikita Tyagunov decides to withdraw his debut as a screen version of this story. Write the script, he asked a familiar playwright Kozhushanova Nadezhda, who decided that the plot of the story is easy to transfer to modern realities. Since Devi was Valery Martynov, and turned into the First World War in Afghanistan.

The main role Tyagunov chosen casually got to watch an obscure young student VGIK Ivan Ohlobystin. Thus, the "foot" - a film shot almost one debutant (director, cinematographer, lead actor, director picture). So notable for its success not only in the framework of the Russian kinoprostranstva, but also in numerous international festivals.

 See the "foot" I decided solely because Ohlobystin Ivan, whom I have always loved for its originality and some special magic that exude his kinopersonazhi from Parfen Rogozhin to the doctor Bykov, from an unnamed scout special person to advertiser Malyuta.

The film "leg" posmotrenny 20 years after its release, makes a very strange impression. At first he did not really like it. He shot in his favorite style Russian directors of the time: the strange music, intricate dialogue, surreal scenes. It is clear only that nothing is clear. Then I read the story of Faulkner and article about the film on Wikipedia, which explains a lot. 4 days after viewing, I realized that I can not let go of some of the scenes from the film, and especially the 10-minute dialogue Ohlobystin and Peter Mamonov. There is in this scene, something that goes deep into the soul and does not rest.

In short, this is a film about the senselessness of war and ruthlessness, about how the man who has passed through this hell, that he would never be able to live in the old way, and that the foot - this is not very strong that he to lose. Okhlobystin just perfect. Still, it's an amazing actor - a thin, lively, charming.

Advised to see "step" I do not presume. Russian films of the early 90's - this is a very material to the amateur. But if you like the aesthetics and style of shooting such films as "Assa", "Black Rose - Emblem of Sorrow", "referee", be sure to take a look and "foot." It is no wonder that it unconditionally accepted and loved, a veteran Afghan war.

For whom the prison crying... [Po kom tur'ma plachet...], 1991

For whom the prison crying... | Po kom tur'ma plachet...

Year		1991
Country		Russia
Director		Georgij Kevorkov
Screenwriter		Rafael' Agadzhanyan
Operator		Vadim Avloshenko
Artist		Aleksandr Tokarev
Genre		Comedy
Premiere date (Russia)		April 1, 1992
Actors		Ramaz Ioseliani Natal'ya Vorob'eva Vladimir Tatosov Leonard Sarkisov Georgij Ovakimyan Stepan Shaginyan Evgeniya Tudorashku Sergej Pozhogin Valentina Kas'yanova Igor' Bogoduh
Rating		6.18 / 10 [votes: 11]

Gia, a humble teacher of musical school, inherits a suitcase and a house on the Cote d'Azur. The suitcase is empty, and the Cote d'Azur - a secluded spot in the far north. Acquainted with the agile girl Masha, Gia learns from it, as for the flight from the North to complete an empty suitcase...

Example of Intonation [Primer intonacii], 1991

Example of Intonation | Primer intonacii

Year		1991
Country		Russia
Director		Aleksandr Sokurov
Screenwriter		Aleksandr Sokurov
Operator		Aleksandr Burov
Genre		Documentary
Actors		Aleksandr Sokurov
Rating		6.81 / 10 [votes: 16]

The film, "Example of Intonation" is not an exhortation to colleagues or spectators in how we should look, talk, think, how to show. "Example" - as an experience, as a test, as an attempt. I do not hide their sympathy for the hero, do not hide the tragic premonition, which, of course, may not coincide with reality. If the leader of the Russian parliament, a character you have seen a great politician and felt - Man with me and that's enough.

We are all people indefinitely

The film "Example of Intonation" can be read in different ways, but you can not read at all. Personally for me - this is an example of how you can for 47 minutes to destroy the myth of the "superhuman" strength of man and that in 1991 - it is really a year of freedom. Well, if the "leader of the Russian parliament, a character more politicians we looked and felt the man" - the author really means did the trick. The film is particularly important, even significant look now, from the perspective of evaluation of the events of twenty years ago.

In the middle of the film, the music of Verdi's opera "Nabucco" and "chorus of slaves" mourn his freedom. In the history of music literature, this aria became a symbol of hope for the future. Neither is whether the Russians had in 1991, the year?

Gorge spirits [Ushel'e duhov], 1991

Gorge spirits | Ushel'e duhov

Year		1991
Country		Russia
Director		Sergej Nilov
Screenwriter		Sergej Nilov Aleksandr Prohanov
Operator		Andrej Vacura
Composer		Boris Rychkov
Genre		Insurgent [action film]
Duration		90 min. / 01:30
Actors		Aleksandr Kazakov Vadim Stepashkin Vladislav Toldykov Mulkoman Orazov Denis Bannikov Vadim Pozharskij
Rating		6.94 / 10 [votes: 34]

About the recent military operations in Afghanistan. The commander of the reconnaissance Grachev and his men try to comprehend the essence of this strange and terrible war ...

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Mother [Mat'], 1989

Mother | Mat'

Year		1989
Country		Russia Italy
Director		Gleb Panfilov
Screenwriter		Gleb Panfilov Maksim Gor'kij
Producer		Lionnello Santi
Operator		Mihail Agranovich Aleksandr Il'hovskij
Composer		Vadim Bibergan
Artist		Franchesko Kuppini Valerij Kostrin Levan Lazishvili
Editor		E. Galinka
Genre		Drama [play] History
Premiere date (world)		January 7, 1993
Duration		200 min. / 03:20
Actors		Inna Churikova Viktor Rakov Lubomiras Laucyavichus Aleksandr Shishonok Dmitrij Pevcov Aleksandr Karin Ivan Kabardin Vladimir Prozorov Vladimir Fateev Ol'ga Shukshina
Rating		7.69 / 10 [votes: 143]
IMDB Rating		6.90 / 10 [votes: 56]

Based on the works of Maxim Gorky's "Mother", "Life Useless Man" and "Karamora."

Awards

Nika Award, 1991 - Best sound editing 
Cannes Film Festival, 1990 - The prize for artistic contribution
The European Film Academy, 1990 - Best Supporting Actor

Sleeping Beauty (video) [Spyashaya krasavica (video)], 1989

Sleeping Beauty (video) | Spyashaya krasavica (video)

Year		1989
Country		Russia
Director		Oleg Vinogradov
Screenwriter		Marius Petipa Sharl' Perro
Artist		Sajmon Virsaladze
Genre		Music
Premiere date (world)		September 28, 2001
Duration		129 min. / 02:09
Actors		Vadim Guliayev Larisa Lezhnina Yulia Makhalina Faruh Ruzimatov
Rating		8.00 / 10 [votes: 1]

Queen of Spades [Pikovaya dama], 1988

Queen of Spades | Pikovaya dama

Year		1988
Country		Russia
Director		Aleksey Burago Petr Fomenko
Screenwriter		Aleksandr Pushkin
Genre		Detective
Premiere date (Russia)		March 8, 1988
Actors		Aleksey Burago
Rating		0.00

Carousel (TV) [Karusel' (TV)], 1983

Carousel (TV) | Karusel' (TV)

Year		1983
Country		Russia
Director		Vladimir Popkov
Screenwriter		Roman Furman
Operator		Igor' Belyakov
Composer		Oleg Kiva
Actors		Marina Neyolova Uozas Budrajtis Aleksandr Pashutin Ludmila Lobza Sergej Podgornyj Nina Sharolapova Ekaterina Brondukova
Rating		7.28 / 10 [votes: 47]

Casual acquaintance sculptor Anna and chemist Leo may well develop into a deep feeling. But with the speed of the spinning carousel follow each other comic situations, which then alienates, then bring together the characters.

Member of Parliament [Chlen parlamenta], 1920

Member of Parliament | Chlen parlamenta

Year		1920
Country		Russia France
Director		Yakov Protazanov
Screenwriter		Aleksandr Litvinov Keterin Sesil T'urston
Producer		Dzhozef N. Ermol'eff
Operator		Boris Zavelev
Artist		Alexandre Lochakoff
Premiere date (world)		January 7, 1923
Duration		65 min. / 01:05
Actors		Ivan Mozzhuhin Natal'ya Lisenko
Rating		6.40 / 10 [votes: 5]

Children - flowers of life [Deti – cvety zhizni], 1919

Children - flowers of life | Deti – cvety zhizni

Year		1919
Country		Russia
Director		Urij Zhelyabuzhskij
Screenwriter		Nikolaj Tihonov Urij Zhelyabuzhskij
Operator		Urij Zhelyabuzhskij
Artist		Sergej Kozlovskij
Premiere date (Russia)		January 1, 1919
Actors		Anna Dmohovskaya Anatolij Nelidov V. Osvetinskij
Rating		7.00 / 10 [votes: 1]

The film shows two families. One is a sickly child to traditional healers, he dies. Another family complies with all requirements of doctors, the child grows up healthy.

Intimidated bourgeois [Zapugannyj burzhuj], 1919

Intimidated bourgeois | Zapugannyj burzhuj

Year		1919
Country		Russia
Director		Mihail Verner
Screenwriter		Lev Nikulin Yakov Yadov
Operator		Aleksandr Stanke
Actors
Rating		7.50 / 10 [votes: 2]

Emperor's new clothes [Novoe plat'e korolya], 1919

Emperor's new clothes | Novoe plat'e korolya

Year		1919
Country		Russia
Director		Urij Zhelyabuzhskij
Screenwriter		Urij Zhelyabuzhskij Gans Kristian Andersen
Operator		Urij Zhelyabuzhskij
Artist		Sergej Kozlovskij
Genre		Short film
Actors		Dmitrij Gundurov Vitalij Lazarenko Anatolij Nelidov V. Ryabcev
Rating		10.00 / 10 [votes: 1]

Peter and Alex [Petr i Aleksej], 1919

Peter and Alex | Petr i Aleksej

Year		1919
Country		Russia
Director		Urij Zhelyabuzhskij
Screenwriter		Urij Zhelyabuzhskij Dmitrij Merezhkovskij
Actors		Leonid Leonidov
Rating		7.00 / 10 [votes: 1]

Asiada [Aziade], 1918

Asiada | Aziade

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Iosif Sojfer
Screenwriter		Iosif Sojfer
Operator		Aleksandr Stanke
Actors		Margarita Froman Mihail Mordkin Nikolaj Vashkevich
Rating		7.00 / 10 [votes: 2]

Lady and the Hooligan [Baryshnya i huligan], 1918

Lady and the Hooligan | Baryshnya i huligan

Year		1918
Country		Russia
Director		Evgenij Slavinskij Vladimir Mayakovskij
Screenwriter		Vladimir Mayakovskij Edmondo De Amichis
Operator		Evgenij Slavinskij
Artist		Vladimir Egorov
Genre		Short film Drama [play]
Premiere date (Russia)		May 1, 1919
Duration		45 min.
Actors		Vladimir Mayakovskij Aleksandra Rebikova Fedor Dunaev
Rating		7.50 / 10 [votes: 208]
IMDB Rating		6.70 / 10 [votes: 52]

Venue story moved to the pre-revolutionary Russia. The story has undergone significant alterations. Mayakovsky emphasized the contradictions in the character of the hero: the combination of anarcho-individualistic rebellion with a touching love dedicated to the teacher.

Review

Mayakovsky was really a genius.

Make a film, at a time, on the subject of love ...

Striking his image - a street bully, disheveled, just rejoicing life.

He always smoked a cigarette, and it is a notorious villain in the teeth, diseased love, looked very lyrical.

The main character falls in love with a teacher from the local school, a few times to bully, and once and for standing up for her. It "interferes" with the same - a group of people of all beliefs. After futile attempts to win the hand of his beloved character, he dares to challenge these bullies and they score it to death. But he still has time to kiss your love ...

I think, Vladimir Vladimirovich. During this death experienced deja vu: I once again proved that the great poet, probably killed, and it was like in this movie.

His talent and originality of "unprofitable" proletarian society.

Well ... his voice is still, Mayakovsky much left behind.

He will be back ...