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1) Hipsters
Language
Russian
Description
Moscow 1955. Stalin has been dead two years, but not even Khrushchev's thaw can prevent Komsomol shock troops from hounding hipsters (stilyagi), fans of American jazz, culture and fashion. The student Mels, a Komsomol member, meets Polya, a hipster, while conducting a raid on a hipster hangout. Mels falls in love with Polya while his Communist comrade harbors romantic feelings for him. Mels ingratiates himself into Polya's group of hipsters who meet...
2) Zerkalo
Language
Russian
Description
Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, images of Tarkovsky's childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life--a child's wartime exile, a mother's experience with political terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home--all intermingled with slow-motion dream sequences and poetic chunks of stark newsreels.
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Series
Language
Russian
Description
"'Churov i Churbanov' -- polnyĭ kinoshnoĭ dvizhukhi korotkiĭ roman s nepredskazuemym si͡uzhetom i gustoĭ, mrachnovatoĭ piterskoĭ atmosferoĭ. Zhivëshʹ-zhivëshʹ, i vdrug vyi͡asni͡aetsi͡a, chto u tebi͡a estʹ dvoĭnik, chʹë serdt͡se bʹëtsi͡a sinkhronno s tvoim. Da ne prosto dvoĭnik, a tvoĭ byvshiĭ odnoklassnik: otlichnik ili, naoborot, podozritelʹnyĭ tip, s kotorym u tebi͡a reshitelʹno nichego obshchego v zhizni bytʹ ne...
11) Gospoza Bovari
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Language
Russian
Description
"Emma Bovary feels trapped in a loveless marriage and indulges herself in a lifestyle of reckless overspending and a series of shocking affairs that can only end in her destruction."--
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