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?
Forensic scientist Lisa is obsessed with the beauty of the human body, and believes that physical love heals, gives relief from the burden of trauma and problems. Therefore, she leads an extremely free lifestyle and quite often enters into casual relationships for one night. But one day on the sectional table in front of Lisa is the body of a girl with whom she spent the night the night before. A photograph of an unknown man is printed on the body of the victim.
Gosha is a trucker; he delivers goods to remote Arctic parts of Yakutia. He is a monopolist and his services are expensive. His greed lures him into making a run without a backup-driver. His truck breaks down in the middle of the road. Gosha is trying to fix it when an accident occurs. Now he is face to face with ruthless Arctic wilderness and death is only one breath away.
一名当代电影人与另一个来自19世纪的法国外交官(Sergei Dontsov 饰)发现自己置身于圣彼得堡的一座古老的宫殿中,周围的人完全看不到他们。两人结伴在宫殿中徘徊,见证了暴怒的彼得大帝用鞭子抽打他的将军;凯瑟琳女皇的私人生活;革命前夕末代沙皇一家最后的晚餐以及1913年最后一场辉煌盛大的宫廷舞会。短短100分钟内,亲身经历了俄国200多年的历史…… 本片荣获2004年阿根廷影展最佳外语片奖、2003年德国相机奖剧情片荣誉奖、2003年西班牙奇幻电影奖最佳男主角(Sergei Dontsov),最佳剧本和最佳导演、2004年尼卡奖最佳美术指导、2003年旧金山影评人协会荣誉奖、2002年多伦多国际电影节视觉奖。
童年时代的悲惨经历让勇敢战士猎狼犬(亚历山大·布哈罗夫 Aleksandr Bukharov 饰)的心中充满了仇恨,即便失去了自由沦为奴隶,但猎狼犬心中的仇恨却并没有因为时间的流逝而有半分减损。终于,猎狼犬找到了机会逃脱了敌人的禁锢,不过故事并没有就此结束,因为还有更重要的事情在等待着猎狼犬去完成。 海伦公主(奥莎娜·阿金什那 Oksana Akinshina 饰)遭遇了被诅咒的命运,她不仅被迫和恶魔的儿子维尼塔(安纳托里·贝利 Anatoli Belyj 饰)订下了婚约,还为了召唤邪恶的女巫而献出了自己的鲜血。猎狼犬的到来替海伦公主带来了希望,在敌人重重的包围之中,猎狼犬能够顺利的完成自己的任务吗?
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.
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 ...
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。
影片讲述了凯和格尔达生活在一个安静舒适的小镇上,几个强大的冰怪物突然降临到这个小镇,冻结了所有的居民,但是,冰雪公主伊拉挺身而出,和伙伴们一起最终再次封印了冰怪物们,整个小镇的居民们也终于从冰冷的束缚中解放出来的故事。
故事发生在二次世界大战刚刚结束之际,德国在战争中败落,大部分德军沦为战俘,被送入了战俘营中。在位于列宁格勒近郊的一间战俘营中,新来了一批德国战俘,负责看守他们的是一群英姿飒爽的俄国女人,她们的直系上司是巴普洛夫将军(约翰·马尔科维奇 John Malkovich 饰)。 娜塔莉亚(维拉·法梅加 Vera Farmiga 饰)是一名军医,她的丈夫因为在战争中受惊过度而精神失常,为了保护丈夫,娜塔莉亚不得不答应巴普洛夫将军的要求,来到战俘营,试图找出隐藏在俘虏之中的党卫军战犯。在这所阴森恐怖的战俘营中,无论是守卫还是囚犯,其身心都收到了战争所带来的深深的创伤,随着时间的推移,两方人马的立场和关系开始渐渐变得微妙起来。
蒙面义警的杀戮使城市陷入混乱,只有一名反叛警察和他的新人拍档能阻止这场混乱。