Eastern European Cinema
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- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsTadanobu AsanoAmadu MamadakovKhulan ChuluunThe story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.
- DirectorNikolay LebedevStarsAleksandr BukharovOksana AkinshinaIgor PetrenkoDoomed to die, he managed to survive, and now his mission is to avenge the annihilation of his tribe. He is the great warrior who calls himself Volkodav, and he is the last man from the tribe of Serie Psi (Grey Hounds). After escaping certain death, Volkodav (accompanied by Neletuchaya Mysh) is on a mission to kill Ludoed, who is responsible for what happened to Serie Psi.
- DirectorAnton MegerdichevStarsSvetlana IvanovaIvan ZhidkovElena PanovaIn Russia, the mystic student of linguistic Marina Leonova is in love with her boyfriend Artur. However, he blows her off and dates their schoolmate Vika. When their class travels to the countryside with their Professor Sergey Rudolfovich to research mystic spots, they meet a weird old lady in the forest and she invites them to have a meal with her. The outcast Marina stays by the lake and Artur seeks her to have sex. However they are surprised by their friends and the ashamed Marina runs to the forest. Kostya, who has a crush on Marina, follows her and they get lost in the woods. Marina and Kostya reach an abandoned house and Marina decides to explore the spot. She finds the mummified corpse of a witch holding a shield and she is possessed by a force and faints. Sergey and his students find her and he call a rescue team to help Marina. However, a violent elite squad in a helicopter arrives instead and sooner the students discover that the Minister of Mining Aleksandr is the son of the powerful sorcerer Ylto Vallo that was murdered centuries ago by the Queen of the Witches. Aleksandr wants to retrieve the power of his father and needs the magic spell that will release his power from the shield. But Marina is also a witch and she will do anything to avoid the evil Aleksandr from getting the power.
- DirectorFedor BondarchukStarsVasiliy StepanovYulia SnigirPyotr FyodorovA space traveler from the Earth of the 22th century - without wars, poverty and oppression - crashes on an unknown planet. Politically and economically that planet similar to the totalitarian human states of the 20th century.
- DirectorElizaveta StishovaStarsTalant AsanalievGulsina ChotonovaDaniel DaiyrbekovKarabas (Asset Imangaliev) is a difficult man: a hard-gambling, hard-drinking, child-in-a-man's body who puts only himself first in his family. When his wife #1, Zhipara (Perizat Ermanbetova), calls to tell him she has found their long-lost son, Uluk (Daniel Dayrbekov), Karabas rushes to her, much to the dismay of his much younger, pregnant wife #2, Turganbyubyu (Turgunai Erkinbekova). Soon the new family dynamics are stretched past their limits, and Karabas is caught between his old ways and the two women bearing his sons: one re-born and one yet to come. Now this unusual family must decide if they are to co-exist or tear each other apart as old wounds are ripped open and deception becomes the rule of the day. Shot on location in and around the mystic World Heritage Site of the Suleiman Mountain in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, SULEIMAN MOUNTAIN tells the coming of age story of a grown man who must first lose love in order to find it.
- DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsRoman BilykIrina StarshenbaumTeo YooA love triangle emerges around a rock and roll musician, his protege and his wife in 1980s Russia.
- DirectorAnton BilzhoStarsOlga TsirsenEgor MorozovDaniil SteklovStas and Peter, two young psychiatry students and friends perceive life differently. Stas desires to act by the rules, Peter prefers experimenting. Stas is a hard worker while Peter likes to break the silence. Stas loves with hate, Peter hates with love. Stas is a diligent student, Peter is a troublemaker. It's a pity they both have one passion - Katherina. Stas' loving stepmother, father's wife, a tourist guide. For Peter - a lover. Will their friendship stand the test of passion for the woman? This is an intriguing story about an unusual love triangle and that madness is closer than it seems.
- DirectorMiloslav LutherStarsAdriana TarábkováLukás VaculíkMaria SchellA fairy-tale about a beautiful but very haughty princess Anna who cruelly mocks each of her suitors. Finally she is forced by the king to marry a beggar. The poor life, hard work and love teach the princess a lesson and turn her into a loving and kind person.
- DirectorVáclav VorlícekStarsLibuse SafránkováPavel TrávnícekCarola BraunbockLife changes dramatically for a Czech housemaid when the family coachman gives her three magical hazelnuts.
- DirectorAntonín KachlíkStarsLucie TomkováPetr MikuláJindrich BonaventuraPrincess Julia doesn't want to marry an old prince Hubert so she runs away from home. She meets two old magicians and join the circus, where she meets lovely Franta Kuldan and evil devil performer.
- DirectorKordian PiwowarskiStarsGrazyna Blecka-KolskaZdzislaw WardejnEwa KasprzykKasia still lives in the village of Brzozki and fights off her unwanted suitor Staszek. Unexpectedly, her son Marcin returns to Poland and immediately runs into trouble. The boy has an idea for an unusual business. At this time, a crisis breaks out in Warsaw in the Wolanski family, Wolanska publishes a controversial book, her husband and daughter Agnieszka - rebel and run away from home. They first decide to visit Piotr, who today leads a comfortable life with his wife Marlena. Then they set off into the unknown, and this trip will become legendary again.
- DirectorKarel KachynaStarsMiroslava SafránkováRadovan LukavskýPetr SvojtkaThe little mermaid, one of the daughters of the sea king, seeing the prince on the deck of a luxurious ship, falls in love with him. But during a storm, the ship crashes against a rock. The little mermaid saves her lover from death.
- DirectorMilko LazarovStarsMikhail AprosimovFeodosia IvanovaSergei EgorovIn the far north, Sedna and Nanook dream of bringing back their family together. After Sedna's death, Nanook walks a long way to find his daughter Ága, who ran away years ago.
- DirectorRadu JudeStarsIoana IacobAlexandru DabijaAlex BogdanAn artist commissioned to stage a re-enactment of a Romanian war battle receives pushback from producers for including a realistic portrayal of her country's treatment of Jews during WWII.
- DirectorEgor BaranovStarsMargarita AdaevaSergey BadyukFilipp DyachkovThe year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
- DirectorIndar DzhendubaevStarsMatvey LykovMariya PoezzhaevaStanislav LyubshinIn the midst of the wedding princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on the remote island.
- DirectorNikita ArgunovStarsRinal MukhametovLyubov AksyonovaAnton PampushnyyAfter a mysterious accident, a young architect comes back to his senses in a very odd world. He must find out the exact laws and regulations of it while he fights for his life and keeps looking for an exit to the real world.
- DirectorIrina PovolotskayaStarsMarina IlyichyovaLev DurovAlla DemidovaHaving gone for a gift for his daughter, the father is captured by a monster. A poetic adaptation of a fairy tale by Sergey Aksakov.
- DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsAnna FrielKarel RodenVincent ReganWith an unquenchable thirst for blood, Countess Elizabeth Bathory was one of the most prolific serial killers in history.
- DirectorVáclav VorlícekStarsPetra CernockáJan HrusínskýJan KrausSaxana, a witch-in-training, accidentally stumbles upon a spell that transports her to the human world. She meets Peter who introduces her to the human world, leading to a series of adventures as she experiences life outside magical realm.
- DirectorAndrey PaounovStarsSamuel FinziIossif SurchadzhievZachary BaharovTwo men and a bird, trapped in a snowstorm in the middle of nowhere, try to solve a mystery while it slowly devours them.
- DirectorVladimir MunkuevStarsZoya BagynanovaSergey GilevPavel KolesovBased on the Hailak short story and other works by Polish writer with experience of Siberian exile Waclaw Sieroszewski, the plot revolves around the poor Yakut peasant couple Khabdzhiy and Keremes struggling to survive in the taiga area of the most remote East corner of the Russian Empire at the end of XIX century. After the death of the second newborn child both young man and woman obediently get back to their chores to make it through another day and get ready for a lengthy and exhausting winter. The local Yakut ruler orders the family to admit to their house the Russian political convict Konstantin and keep him till further notice. The worlds of the family and the Russian unwelcome guest are colliding from the first days due to completely polar backgrounds. Despite the mutual challenge of the household against surrounding wild nature, Konstantin gradually settles in and claims the position of master of the house.
- DirectorAntonio GaldamezStarsPaulina GalazkaMiron JagniewskiOliwier GrzegorzewskiNormal married couple with one adorable child find fighting about everything the norm until one day they wake up in the other's body - oops - and get to see what it is to be married to themselves.
- DirectorLev ArnshtamLeonid LavrovskyStarsGalina UlanovaYuri ZhdanovIraida OleninaRussian ballet version of Shakespeare's tragedy about star crossed lovers from two feuding Italian Renaissance families.