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1) Elena
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The story of Elena and Vladimir, an older couple. The wealthy but stingy Vladimir treats Elena more like a servant than a wife. They each have children from their first marriages, a son and a daughter. Elena's son is unemployed and can't feed his wife and two children; they live only on the money Elena provides them, while Vladimir's daughter lives a bohemian life. In the hospital following a heart attack, Vladimir's daughter visits him. Their time...
2) Deadly code
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Grandfather Kuzya is the leader of a Siberian criminal clan banished to live the in the punishment town of Transnistria in 1985. There, he schools his grandson on the 'honest criminal' code of their community.
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With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in Russia, where the past is never past, the present is a goose-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where, beneath the layers of the ordinary, things turn out to be quite extraordinary. Part science-fiction, mystery, and dark comedy, this Cannes Film Festival entry is a unique hybrid of genres.
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In Tsarist Russia, Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman in the village of Anatevka, struggles to support his five unmarried daughters amid growing antisemitism and clashes between traditional values and modern romantic ideals. Seeking guidance from God, Tevye relies on his people's traditions to navigate the precarious balance of his existence, likening it to a fiddler on the roof. As antisemitic sentiment threatens the village, Tevye's encounters with a...
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An American woman searching for her birth parents learns she has inherited a house in the middle of a forest in a remote area of Russia. It is the house where she was born. Abandoned and uninhabited for 40 years, it stands in total disrepair and neglect. What she finds is more than an old house. She meets a mysterious man claiming to be her twin brother and together they find the house holds dangerous secrets to a past they don't even remember. They...
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After discovering his mother is still alive, a six-year-old Russian boy runs away from his orphanage and sets out on a perilous journey to find her. Pursued by orphanage staff and the police, Vanya Solntsev must now face the most difficult challenges of his young life in this story inspired by true events.
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Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma. The town's corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, and his land.
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In honor of his newly created religion, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy renounces his title, property, and family in favor of poverty and celibacy. For the Countess Sofya, his wife of nearly fifty years, this is the last straw! After she discovers his plans to leave the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she decides to use every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, to fight for what she believes is...
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