Films with: Bortko, Vladimir

Idīot Idiot /

Upon Prince Myshkin's return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastassya. The choices all are forced to make lead to great tragedy.

DVD 4328

Master i Margarita

Set in Moscow during the time of Stalin, several story-lines are intertwined. A writer (the Master) has produced a manuscript of a play about Pontius Pilate. It appears that government agents are intent on suppressing the manuscript. Paranoia sets in as the Master believes that not only the Devil himself is after him, but that his assistant Margarita is conspiring with the forces of evil. Paralleling this is the story of Yeshua and Pontius Pilate. Throughout, the evil Professor of Black Magic and his otherworldly group are manipulating public events and people's lives.

DVD 7151

Sobachʹe serdt︠s︡e

In the early 1920's after the Soviet Revolution, a scientist and his assistant perform an operation to change a stray dog into a human. This new being has the sophistication of a dog, in a world of human situations. He develops into a cruel, lying, stealing, dangerous man, and the scientists perform a reverse operation, to change this being back into a dog.

DVD 7178