The Russian Pilgrim

The film depicts the pilgrimage to Jerusalem of schema monk Makary with whom faith is not just the latest craze but the essence of his understanding of life. His main goal is to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,

The Russian Question

It is the story of an American journalist who spends time in Russia and sees socialism in action. Upon his return to the U.S., a prestigious editor asks him to write a book about his experience. He receives a handsome ad

The Russian Field

Avdey, the husband of the tractor forewoman Fedosya leaves her for another woman. Their 18-year-old son Filipp can not forgive his father and on the day of the new wedding even tries to run over a tractor car in which th

Russian Steam Locomotive

An employee of the Berlin Museum of Transport arrives on vacation with his son Peter in St. Petersburg, intending to make a video about the local museum of transport. Here, the heroes learn about the existence of a rare

The Russian Idea

The Russian entry in the BFI’s Century of Cinema series of documentaries

Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York

The filmmaker Elena Beloff is a Russian woman who has lived in New York for ten years. Her film explores stereotypes of Russian women which emerged in the 1990s, unfortunate stereotypes that arise from the media and hear

Intern Russian Way

This is the story of gray-haired Nikolai Borisovich, a teacher and mentor, who one day gives up his career and gets a job as an ordinary courier in a multi-profile company. From the very beginning of the film, we see a d

Russian Thought. Return

Russian Russian Thought, a newspaper founded by Russian emigration in France, and donated to the Russian State Library, tells the story of the film. Among the characters of the film, closely connected with the fate of th

Glenn Gould: The Russian Journey

A look at the acclaimed pianist's 1957 trip to the Soviet Union, when he became - at age 24 - the first North American to perform behind the Iron Curtain. The film features previously unheard recordings of Gould's concer

ICANZ Russian Adoption

Features of the Russian Bath

Adult comedy about Russian saunas and the traditions, habits and jokes connected to them.

Russian Orthodox Church Today

A Sixteenth Century Russian Wedding

A dramatization of a wedding in 16th-century Russia, between members of two prominent boyar families (based on paintings by Konstantin Makovskii): Three matchmakers first visit the family of the prospective bride, and th

The Children Play Russian

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the project by stubbornly remaining in France and casting himse

The Russian Waltz

New short stop-motion film from Garri Bardin.

Russian Arc: Across Cinematic Time

Kirby's triptych exploration on Russia, featuring her "Tangent 1926: October", "Tangent 2002: Sokurov", and "Tangent 2006: Jordan Staircase Exposure."

The Russian Muse

The story of the family life of the brilliant Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova appears as a problem of choosing between the values of life and the goals of art. The necessity of this

Russian Winter Festival

A documentary on the Russian Winter Art Festival, which took place in Moscow every winter since 1964.

Russian Like No Other

Year after year, a simple farmer from Pskov, François Toulikounkiko, tries to find his original way to succeed in a Russian village and find an answer to the question: "What prevents us from living better?". This is the

Lyubov: Love in Russian

For several years, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich traveled around in Russia and Belarus to investigate the relationship to love of the Russian people. One, as Svetlana means, is an acute shortage in today's society.