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Summary: A documentary following American women (some of whom emigrated from Afghanistan in the early 1980s) who return to the capital city of Kabul to open an American-style school for beauticians. Some of their students are women who mai...
Release Date: May 04, 2004
Runtime: 1 h 14 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 225,448
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Summary: The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in h...
Runtime: 2 h 17 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Domestic: $ 93,292
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Summary: A tragicomedy about four women of three generations living in a small Moscow flat: a sick grandmother who needs attention; a mother who cannot manage her personal life; and two daughters, each of whom have their own challenges.
Runtime: 1 h 19 min

Production: Goskino, Mosfilm, Panmeter
Distributor: October Films
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Domestic: $ 239,008
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Summary: This Soviet movie follows five Red Army recruits at a training camp in Central Russia. It has no narrative structure, and rather than telling a story it uses vignettes with minimal dialogue to expose the conditions in which Soviet...
Runtime: 1 h 11 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
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Summary: A comedic love/hate relationship develops between a dour taxi driver and a hapless aspiring musician after the latter stiffs his cab fare.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min

Countries: France, Soviet Union
Language: Russian
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Summary: This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here a tragic romance ensues between the convict and woman worker.
Runtime: 1 h 36 min

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films
Language: Russian
Domestic: $ 28,769
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Summary: The film is based on the story of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A sad story about how the demagogue and idler Foma Opiskin lived in the house of Colonel Rostanev, took possession of the souls and minds of educated, intelligent p...
Runtime: 3 h 00 min

Production: Lentelefilm
Language: Russian
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Summary: A Soviet allegory made during the somewhat more permissive atmosphere under Gorbachev, of the sometimes puzzling relationship between a master and a slave.
Runtime: 2 h 21 min

Production: Mosfilm
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
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Summary: A talented but poor minstrel is forced to wander throughout the world because of impossibility to be with his true love - a rich merchant's daughter.
Runtime: 1 h 13 min

Production: Georgian-Film
Distributor: RUSCICO
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Georgian
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Summary: In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.
Runtime: 2 h 16 min
MPAA: PG

Distributor: Sky Roket
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
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Summary: A teenage girl, who has just finished school feels trapped and aimless in her ordinary Russian family, supported by an alcoholic father, in a dull industrial town.
Runtime: 2 h 08 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Domestic: $ 1,262,598
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Summary: Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight...
Runtime: 1 h 21 min

Language: Russian
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Summary: A former musician must make a hard choice between freedom with mistress and comfortable life with wife.
Runtime: 2 h 14 min

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Domestic: $ 85,360
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Summary: An Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks, Romano Patroni leaves his wife to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman. He returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min

Countries: Italy, Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Domestic: $ 2,201,428
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Summary: Lyrically beautiful dramatized documentary of the life of Russian Romantic poet Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841).
Runtime: 1 h 40 min

Production: Mosfilm
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
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Summary: A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Production: Georgian-Film
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Georgian
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Summary: After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
Runtime: 2 h 22 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Domestic: $ 71,909
International: $ 20,857,739
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Summary: Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.
Runtime: 2 h 33 min
MPAA: PG

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Georgian
Domestic: $ 215,496