Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter. Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...
第10世纪末,基辅罗斯的最高统治者斯维亚一世暴毙后,王国震动,朝野纷争。三个王子在各自公国贵族的支持下,争夺王位继承权。弗拉基米尔本是三位王子中年纪最小且生性柔弱的一个,并且因为是父亲与女仆的“私生子”而不被家族器重。在父王暴毙、大王子谋害二王子夺下王位之后,这个胆小的王子在父亲谋臣尼尔德的帮助下,从家族的故乡组织起一支野蛮狂暴的维京海盗战队,开始了对哥哥以及杀害他父亲的异族人的复仇。等待他的是大王子的铁血武士、坚不可摧的波洛茨克城堡、突厥铁骑的劲弩和邪恶的异教诅咒;罗斯公国绝世美人罗格涅达和暧昧神秘的大王妃以及权谋、色诱、暗杀、绝望和背叛,更要面对强大的拜占庭帝国……铁血大帝弗拉基米尔将如何上演“王子复仇记”?
Moscow, 1902. The famous director Konstantin Stanislavsky, in search of inspiration for staging a new play, decides to get acquainted with the life of the city "bottom". He turns to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, a recognized expert on the Moscow slums, for help. Together they go to the legendary bandit Khitrovka and find themselves embroiled in the investigation of the murder of a mysterious local resident - an Indian Sikh with a dark past.
In Skazka, Alexander Sokurov weaves digital magic to create a phantasmagorical vision of the Afterlife, worthy of Dante. But wait: are we in the limbo of Purgatory, or a paradoxical Paradise reserved for notorious men of world history? Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and more: all are present and accounted for. Since they exist only as archival media images, each figure comes in a serial set. In the blackest of political comedies, these fallen men beg, in turn, to be let through Heaven’s Gate – but the angels who peek through never open wide. Little wonder, as the former leaders wander listlessly, bitching (in a Babel of multiple languages) about each other’s clothes, hair and hygiene. In what is effectively a work of animation, Sokurov has pulled together many talents into an extraordinary technological feat. It blends pictorial elements from art history to form an endlessly unfolding landscape, replete with fog and ghostly armies of the sacrificed victims of history. Announced as Sokurov’s last film, Skazka is an inspired riff on the high culture of Peter Greenaway mixed with the low culture of mash-up artists Soda_Jerk. Can we now expect some entrepreneur to bring us the interactive Skazka video game?
苏联解体后那个“疯狂的九十年代”,在俄罗斯北方一座工业城市。主人公伊万是一名雅库特人(少数族裔),因为20多年前那场不光彩的茹侵阿富汗战争留下了脑震荡,现在是一家锅炉房里的工人。一位当地的黑道大佬是伊万从前的战友,常常利用锅炉房来毁尸灭迹,“没关系,他们都是一些坏人”,如此,他安慰伊万说。但直到有一天,当Skryabin的女儿因抢走了这位朋友女儿的男友而被送进锅炉时,伊万才开始醒悟。战争并没有结束。 影片是一部极端残酷的暴力现实主义作品,可谓延续了阿历克塞·巴拉巴诺夫一贯大胆黑色的风格。他执导的《兄弟》、《畸零与色情》等片让主流媒体难以接受,克里姆林宫最喜欢的导演Nikita Mikhalkov(《毒太阳》)也曾出面攻击称《兄弟》的主人公“充满破坏欲”,“荼毒青少年的思想”。不过在2010年底俄国影评人们颁出的“白象”奖中,《火炉工》摘得了最佳影片、最佳导演在内四项大奖,成为最大赢家。
Lera is a sociology student at a small-town university. Her mother is a sleepwalker who believes in miracles, and her father just left the family for another woman. Lera has no idea how to make her life better. And one more thing: a spirit keeps visiting her dreams at night. And the harder Lera's life gets, the more often she has these dreams. That is, until the spirit steps into the world of the living.
1940年代早期,第二次世界大战即将结束。激烈的持久战使苏联军队和德国军队都日渐疲惫。德军一辆极具攻击性和破坏性的巨型坦克“白虎”,屡屡将苏军的坦克轰炸得机毁人亡。而这辆势不可挡的强大武器,总是从战场的硝烟中幽幽出现继而转瞬消失,没人能够确认它的真实存在,当然也无人否认。苏军指挥官决定建造一辆超级坦克T-34坦克的变种,与之抗衡。操纵该辆坦克的车长伊凡·纳季亚诺夫(阿列克谢·沃特考夫 Alexei Vertkov饰)是一位传奇人物。他曾在操纵坦克时,被“白虎”轰炸得体无完肤。死里逃生的伊凡不但活了下来,更拥有一种读懂“坦克语言”的特异功能。他坚信神秘的德军坦克“白虎”确实存在,并决心摧毁它。 由俄罗斯导演卡伦·沙赫纳扎罗夫执导的战争影片《白虎》,入围2012年第15届上海国际电影节金爵奖-最佳影片,并入围2013年第3届北京国际电影节国外展映单元-俄罗斯影展。
佳娜(阿格莱亚·塔拉索娃 Aglaya Tarasova 饰)出生在一个非常贫困的家庭之中,在母亲的鼓励和栽培下,佳娜成为了一名花样滑冰运动员,虽然佳娜的身体条件并不是非常适合这项运动,但凭借着自己的努力,佳娜最终成功的站在了世界顶级花滑男选手里奥纳夫(米洛斯·比柯维奇 Milos Bikovic 饰)的身边,成为了他的搭档。两人通过默契十足的合作夺得了许多耀眼的成绩,彼此之间也碰撞出了爱情的火花。 花滑世界杯即将开始之前,佳娜不幸受伤,无奈只能告别赛场,里奥纳夫也因此离开了她。就在佳娜万念俱灰的时候,冰球运动员萨沙(亚历山大·佩特洛夫 Alexander Petrov 饰)成为了她坚强的后盾。
一场毫无征兆的现代战争一触即发,无数大兵、先进武器聚集一地,战事愈演愈烈,导弹在天空中呼啸而过,子弹像雨点般的肆意飞散,形成了一道不可逾越的战争火线,而这道火线恰好阻隔了一对母子。年轻貌美的母亲不顾一切、试图只身穿越火线,救出年幼的儿子,但无奈于敌方火力封锁严密,而且她心中的机器怪物也是万般阻隔,这个冒险之旅对于一个女人来说就像一场噩梦,幸有一队勇敢的大兵舍身保护,但她能否克服千难万险,打败心魔,营救出儿子……