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Russian
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A haunting, powerful film about the absurdity and evil of war. Set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, The Red and The White details the murderous entanglements between Russia's Red soldiers and the counter-revolutionary Whites in the hills along the Volga. The epic conflict moves with skillful speed from a deserted monastery to a riverbank hospital to a final, unforgettable hillside massacre. THE RED AND THE WHITE is a moving visual feast...
2) The Major
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Russian
Description
When an upstanding Police Major accidentally kills a young boy, his panicked efforts to cover things up lead to an escalating series of questionable arrangements that force him to confront the corrupt moral codes that drive his beloved police department.
3) Brat
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Russian
Description
Danila returns from army service and looks up his older brother, who's become a contract killer in post-Soviet St. Petersburg. Danila is drawn into the violent underworld culture but retains a kind of honor in his dealings with those he comes to know there.
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Language
Russian
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Law of the border: Set along the Turkish-Syrian frontier, this film is a terse, elemental tale of smugglers contending with a changing social landscape. One of them is a quiet man who finds himself fighting for his young son's life as he becomes pitted against his fellow outlaws.
Taipei story: A washed-up baseball player and his property girlfriend struggle with their relationship as they work towards marriage and emigration.
Language
Russian
Description
Based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Student Rodion Raskolnikov murders an old landlady and her sister to get away from his financial problems. However, his deed terrifies him and the investigation begins to close down on him. He meets a prostitute, Sonya, who convinces him to confess to the two murders. He is subsequently sentenced to punitive labor in Siberia, and Sonya follows him there.
6) 12
Language
Russian
Description
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.
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Russian
Description
A mysterious eighteen-year-old and two meteorologists are visited by a seductive beauty and her rich husband. When two detectives are sent up to investigate their disappearance, the secrets of their past merge with those of the weather station and they get sucked into a vortex of mistrust, betrayal and murder.
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