Films with: Artemʹev, Ėduard

12

Set in contemporary Moscow where 12 men must decide the fate of a young man accused of murdering his step-father. Consigned to a makeshift jury room, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

DVD 7232

Dom durakov House of fools /

Psychiatric patients become entrenched in the Chechen War after the staff split to find them a safer hospital. Soldiers take over the asylum, and then, a young female patient falls in love with soldier, which leaves her boyfriend in a lurch.

DVD 3607

Inner circle

"In the middle of Stalinist Russia, Ivan Sanshin ... is preparing for his wedding night when the KGB shows up and takes him away. Ivan is brought in to be Stalin's personal film projectionist and becomes a part of his inner circle, witnessing the ruler's actions and decisions ... a powerful tale based on the true story of a man's loyalty to a ruthless dictator despite the chaos that surrounds him"--Container.

DVD 10337

Oblomov

A moving adaptation of Ivan Goncharov's great 19th century tragi-comedy novel about a gentle aristocrat who would rather sleep than compete in a modern world of expanding industrialization.

DVD 4263

Raba li︠u︡bvi Slave of love /

During the Russian civil war, a Moscow film crew has gathered in the Crimea. The leading actress, Olga, contemplates the revolutionary situation, and after viewing a newsreel of White Army atrocities chooses to return to Bolshevik-controlled Moscow.

DVD 7183

Soli︠a︡ris Solaris /

Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.

DVD 1816

Utomlennye solnt︠s︡em 2 : Predstoi︠a︡nie = Burnt by the sun 2

"Burnt by the Sun 2: a Russian drama film directed by and starring Nikita Mikhalkov. It is the sequel to Mikhalkov's 1994 film Burnt by the Sun. In the end of the previous movie, Burnt by the Sun, the main protagonist general Kotov was executed by NKVD. But, according to the new movie, he was sent to a labor camp instead. As Nazi Germany invades Soviet Union, Kotov, along with his few surviving camp-fellows, is drafted to a penal military unit, to fight against invading Germans. Two sub-plots also deal with the adventures of Kotov's daughter Nadya and Kotov's nemesis Mitya"--Summary from Amazon.com (10/18/2010).

DVD 11211

Utomlennye solnt︠s︡em.

"The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything has changed and he will have to fight again for his name, for his honor, and for his love."--IMDb.com.

DVD 11239