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1) My joy
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 128 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
A truck driver takes a wrong turn and finds himself lost in a bleak Russian underworld, struggling to survive amidst increasingly violent reminders of the country's dark history. The first fiction film by acclaimed documentarian Sergei Loznitsa, My Joy is a mischievous, ultra-nihilistic parable of post-Communist Russia, shot by master cinematographer Oleg Muto (The death of Mr. Lazarescu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days).
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 137 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Anton Chekhov's The cherry orchard is the timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family torn apart by buried secrets and changing times. Stars Alan Bates and Charlotte Rampling.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 69 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Odessa - 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on board the armored cruiser Potemkin, the ship's loyal crew contemplates the unthinkable - mutiny. Seizing control of the Potemkin and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailors' revolt becomes the rallying point for a Russian populace ground under the boot heels of the Czar's Cossacks. When ruthless White Russian cavalry arrives to crush the rebellion on the sandstone Odessa Steps, the most...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 162 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Anton Chekhov's classic play about the lives of three sisters living in a remote Russian village is given the all-star treatment by director and star Laurence Olivier.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 77 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
In Murnau's playful espionage thriller reminiscent of Ernst Lubitsch (who had recently left Germany for Hollywood), Harry Liedtke stars as a benevolent dictator who must preserve the tiny nation of Abacco by fending off creditors, wooing a wealthy Russian princess, and evading a band of demonic conspirators.
6) Strike
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 89 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The first feature film by the director of Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein's Strike is a visual tour-de-force that employs dynamic editing and experimental camerawork to dramatize the saga of a bitterly-fought factory strike in 1903.
7) The Seagull
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (216 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
Anton Chekhov's first of four major plays dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between its four main characters: Boris Trigorin, a well-known writer, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the would-be playwright Konstantin Treplev. Yury Butusov's Golden Mask Award-winning production abounds in an incredible freedom and openness, delving deep into the throes of artistic creation and the anguish of the artist who...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
Hailed by the New York Times as "An unexpected masterpiece," A slave of love is a witty and haunting film about moviemaking from the acclaimed Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov (Burnt by the sun). Within the sun-drenched beauty of the Crimean summer, a Russian movie crew grapples with film shortages, Tsarist secret police scrutiny, and their own dysfunctional dynamic to churn out one more silent melodrama before the revolution in Moscow consumes the...
9) Red sparrow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
11) The Equalizer 2
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert McCall has rededicated his life to the pursuit of justice. But when his mission strikes close to home, he will be consumed by vengeance, seeking a revenge that knows no boundaries.
"Like all great actors, Mr. Washington commits to the performance, but every so often he also breathes fire, imbuing a scene with such shocking ferocity and bone-deep moral certitude that everything else falls blissfully away."--New York Times
"...All we need to...
12) Archangel
Publisher
Distributed by Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A British historian, finished with a conference in Moscow on the newly opened Soviet archives, is preparing to leave Russia for good, but a surprise visit from a former Soviet officer suddenly changes his mind. The officer reveals a deadly secret, one which promises to uncover Russia's most closely guarded conspiracy.
Series
Language
English
Description
Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
14) GoldenEye
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1995.
Edition
Widescreen and fullscreen..
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious Cossack crime lord gains control of a powerful satellite laser weapon, James Bond is sent to Russia to stop him, at all costs.
15) Hunter killer
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American submarine captain teams up with a group of Navy SEALs to rescue the kidnapped Russian president and save the world from an imminent catastrophe.
16) The darkest hour
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five young people are stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on vacation, a married couple unwittingly befriends a flamboyant and charismatic Russian named Dima, who, unbeknownst to them, is a kingpin money launderer for the mafia. When Dima confides to his new friends that he plans to escape from the mob, they're quickly swept into the dangerous world of international espionage. The unlikely companions must undertake a perilous journey through Paris, Bern, and London in order to save Dima and his family....
18) Anna Karenina
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Tolstoy's powerful tale of family passions set in Russia in the 1870s, Anna, the young and beautiful wife of a powerful older man, risks more than she can imagine when she runs away with the dashing Count Vronsky.
19) The last station
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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...
20) Safe
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A second-rate cage fighter is tormented by the Russian Mafia and wanders the streets of New York. He witnesses a young Chinese girl being pursued by the same mafia who want her for a priceless numerical code that they would kill for.
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