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| Title: | Author: | Description: |
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| Palms | ||
| Director: Aristakisyan, A., Certificate: E, B&W, Price: £12.99 | ||
| The Commissar | Made in 1967 but banned in Russia for the next two decades for its "pro-Zionist" approach, Askoldov's only film as a director is a beautiful, poignant meditation on war, religion, childhood and human nature. In it, pregnant Red Army commissar Klavdia Vavilova stays with an impoverished Jewish family during the 1917-22 civil war. | |
| Director: Askoldov, A., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £22.99 | ||
| Of Freaks and Men | ||
| Director: Balabanov, A., Certificate: 18, sepia, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Mad Love | ||
| Director: Bauer, E., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Daywatch | ||
| Director: Bekmambetov, T., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Nightwatch | ||
| Director: Bekmambetov, T., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Destiny of a man | ||
| Director: Bondarchuk, S., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £19.99 | ||
| They fought for their Motherland | ||
| Director: Bondarchuk, S., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| War & Peace | Academy Award winning eight hour epic is the cinema’s definitive adaptation of Tolstoy’s literary classic. Five DVD boxset. | |
| Director: Bondarchuk, S., Certificate: PG, Colour, Price: £49.99 | ||
| Ballad of a Soldier | ||
| Director: Chukhrai, G., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Alexander Nevsky | Silent film | |
| Director: Eisenstein, S., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Battleship Potemkin | ||
| Director: Eisenstein, S., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Ivan the Terrible | ||
| Director: Eisenstein, S., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £15.99 | ||
| October | ||
| Director: Eisenstein, S., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Sergei Eisenstein volume one: silent classics | Comprises "Strike", "Battleship Potemkin" and "October". | |
| Director: Eisenstein, S., Certificate: 12, B&W, Price: £29.99 | ||
| Strike | ||
| Director: Eisenstein, S., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £19.99 | ||
| 100 Days Before the Command | ||
| Director: Erkenov, H., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £15.99 | ||
| Treasure Island | Soviet version of the children's classic. | |
| Director: Fridman, Y., Certificate: PG, Colour, Price: £14.99 | ||
| The Cranes are Flying | Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. | |
| Director: Kalatozov, M., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Koktebel | ||
| Director: Khlebnikov, B. & A. Popogrebsky, Certificate: 12, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Four | Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth? From the meat market, to the president's drinking habit or the soviet cloning project, this allegory opposes different aspects of contemporary Russian society. | |
| Director: Khrzhanovsky, I., Certificate: 15, B&W and colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| House of fools | ||
| Director: Konchalovsky, A., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £15.99 | ||
| The Italian | ||
| Director: Kravchuk, A., Certificate: 12, Colour, Price: £19.90 | ||
| Dersy Uzala | Filmed in 70mm on location in the peaceful vastnesss of the Siberian ice desert, this is one of Kurosawa's most beautiful films as well as a tale of great humanity. It is based on the turn of the century journals of Tsarist officer, Vladimir Arseniev who meets and befriends the hunter Dersu Uzala, who in turn teaches him to survive in the wilderness. An academy award winner from 1975 | |
| Director: Kurosawa, A., Certificate: U, Colour, Price: £22.99 | ||
| The Star | This award winning portrait of wartime bravery is a refreshing addition to the war movie genre. The film recounts the bravery of a scout unit patrol operating behind German lines during the Second World War. | |
| Director: Lebedev, N., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| The Barber of Siberia | ||
| Director: Mikhalkov, N., Certificate: 12, Colour, Price: £15.99 | ||
| Burnt by the sun | ||
| Director: Mikhalkov, N., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Storm Over Asia | ||
| Director: Pudovkin, V., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £19.99 | ||
| The Cuckoo | Saami, Finnish, Russian and German dialogues | |
| Director: Rogozhkin, A., Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Jack Frost | Lavish, award winning Russian adaption of the popular fairy tale of Jack Frost, also known as Father Frost. | |
| Director: Row, A., Certificate: U, Colour, Price: £14.99 | ||
| Aladdin's Magic Lamp | Classic Soviet version of the Aladdin folktale. | |
| Director: Rytsarev, B., Certificate: U, Colour, Price: £14.99 | ||
| Father and Son | ||
| Director: Sokurov, A., Certificate: U, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Moloch | ||
| Director: Sokurov, A., Certificate: 12, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Mother and Son | ||
| Director: Sokurov, A., Certificate: U, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Russian Ark | ||
| Director: Sokurov, A., Certificate: U, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| The Sun | ||
| Director: Sokurov, A., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £19.99 | ||
| You I Love | ||
| Director: Stolpovskaya, O. & D. Troitsky, Certificate: 15, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Andrei Rublev | The life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, which was marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and Tatar invasions. | |
| Director: Tarkovsky, A., Certificate: 15, B&W, Price: £22.99 | ||
| Ivan's Childhood | Tarkovsky's prize-winning debut feature is an extraordinarily moving view of war and revenge. | |
| Director: Tarkovsky, A., Certificate: PG, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Mirror | From the opening sequence of a boy being cured of a stammer by hypnotism, to a scene in a printing works which encapsulates the Stalinist era, this has an extraordinary resonance and repays countless viewings. | |
| Director: Tarkovsky, A., Certificate: U, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Solaris | Tarkovsky transcends the normal conventions of the science fiction genre resulting in a moving and unsettling vision of memory and humanity | |
| Director: Tarkovsky, A., Certificate: PG, Colour, Price: £22.99 | ||
| Stalker | Hauntingly exploring man's dreams and desires, and the consequences of realising them, this has been described as one of the greatest science fiction films of all time. | |
| Director: Tarkovsky, A., Certificate: PG, B&W, Price: £22.99 | ||
| The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion | Includes "Moscow Elegy", "One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch" and "Tempo di Viaggio". | |
| Director: Various, Certificate: E, Colour, Price: £24.99 | ||
| Soviet Propaganda: Capitalist Sharks and Communism's Shining Future | This collection of animated propaganda was recently recovered from Russia’s television vaults. For the first time in ninety years the West can now see how the Soviets portrayed them. This unique documentary collection brings together the original animators and propaganda films such as Shareholders, Join the Collective Farm, Victorious Destination and many others. | |
| Director: Various, Certificate: E, B&W and colour, Price: £17.99 | ||
| Soviet Propaganda: American Imperialists and Fascist Barbarians | This collection of animated propaganda was recently recovered from Russia’s television vaults. For the first time in ninety years the West can now see how the Soviets portrayed them. This unique documentary collection brings together the original animators and propaganda films such as Mister Twister, What Hitler Wants, Fascist Boots on Our Homeland and many others. | |
| Director: Various, Certificate: E, B&W and colour, Price: £17.99 | ||
| Man With a Movie Camera | ||
| Director: Vertov, D., Certificate: e, B&W, Price: £19.99 | ||
| Michael Nyman's Man with a Movie Camera | ||
| Director: Vertov, D., Certificate: E, B&W, Price: £15.99 | ||
| Viy | Masterpiece of Soviet horror based on Gogol's tale. | |
| Director: Yershov, K., Certificate: 12, Colour, Price: £14.99 | ||
| The Return | ||
| Director: Zyagintsev, A., Certificate: 12, Colour, Price: £19.99 | ||
