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.
David, a university professor, takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration. But instead of the mayor’s dodgy dealings being investigated, David is himself accused of embezzlement and placed under house arrest. Despite the overbearing surveillance, double-crossing acquaintances, and growing media interest, David remains defiant and will not apologise. With the court case drawing ever nearer, does David have any hope of winning this battle against Goliath?
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.
高尔察克(康斯坦丁·哈宾斯基 Konstantin Khabensky 饰)是俄国海军上将,他有着卓越的将才,指挥战舰在一战中屡建战功,并受到亲王亲自授勋。年轻英俊,风华正茂,大好前途在他面前展开,爱情也自然如约到来,在一次酒会上,高尔察克遇见了美丽的安娜(Elizaveta Boyarskaya 饰),可惜她当时已嫁作人妇,但两个人难以掩饰彼此吸引,安娜不惜为他离开自己的丈夫。时局动荡,沙皇倒台,十月革命爆发,惯于忠诚的高尔察克在内战中执着尽力,也无法抵抗白色政权的瓦解,高尔察克遭到出卖,被苏维埃政权秘密处决,而安娜被苏维埃政府关押了37年,最终释放,她对高尔察克仍至死不渝。
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。
尤里(丹尼拉·科兹洛夫斯基 Danila Kozlovsky 饰)原本是莫斯科王牌球队的队长兼主力,因为痛失点球情绪失控不得不提前退役,退役后的生活颓废至极,在父亲的劝说下,他来到了俄罗斯边远小城,成为了这个城市唯一一支球队——流星队的主教练。尤里由于脾气火爆,跟球队经理(伊琳娜·戈尔巴乔娃 Irina Gorbacheva 饰)和市长冲突不断,而懒散的球员们也对曾经的巨星疯狂奚落,尤里本想破罐破摔,但是美丽的队医(奥莉亚·祖耶娃 Olya Zueva 饰)照亮了他的生活,少年球队的教练(弗拉基米尔·伊利因 Vladimir Ilin 饰)也给他带来了眼前一亮的训练方法。在了解了球员们的真实状况后,尤里决心重新以主教练的身份一雪前耻,等待他们的是困难重重的比赛,和物力、人力的缺失,关键的比赛时刻,一直支持尤里的父亲也突然去世,尤里能否引领队伍重回巅峰呢?
三个不同的人,三种不同的生活纠缠在一起,遭受误解的青年、迷人又傲慢的继母和平庸但乐观的女演员,他们的命运将会怎样。该片获2014俄罗斯索契电影节最佳导演奖和最佳女演员奖。 A youngster suffering from misunderstanding, a charming but arrogant stepmother, a mediocre optimistic actress, waiting for what will be their fate? The film won the best director award and the Best Actress at Sochi film festival in 2014.
1942年战时的欧洲,奥尔加,移民到法国的俄国贵族女人,同时是法国抵抗组织成员,被盖世太保发现她在自己公寓藏匿两名犹太儿童而被捕,她的案子被分配到盖世太保掌控下的法国警察局长朱尔斯手里,奥尔加想用身体交易换取自己的自由,然而好色又胆小的法国人还在犹豫不决,就被抵抗组织一枪送去见了上帝。 朱尔斯被枪杀后奥尔加被关进犹太集中营,遇到了一个认识的德国军官赫尔穆特,在战争开始前,两人曾在托斯卡纳和朋友们一起度过愉快的假期,在那里,赫尔穆特曾对奥尔加一见钟情。如今,貌美迷人的俄国贵族成了为一点点生存可能抢死人靴子、为了两根香烟给集中营里的女监工提供服务的阶下囚,而热爱音乐和契科夫的德国青年,放弃家产和一切,全身心投入到他所相信和追随的纳粹事业中来。在每天都要死一万多人的地狱般的集中营里,两人踏上一段扭曲的关系。在战争后期纳粹全面失利的时候,赫尔穆特做好了假护照决定带奥尔加一起逃往南美德国殖民地,这让对生存有巨大渴望的奥尔加激动得无以复加。然而奥尔加在集中营里偶遇自己曾在巴黎公寓里藏匿过的两个犹太男孩儿,让她一念之差,在最后关头改变了主意
影片的时代背景落在30年代斯大林统治下的前苏联。科托夫(尼基塔·米哈尔科夫 Nikita Mikhalkov 饰)是红军的光辉领袖,拥有殷实家底和幸福家庭,正在与妻子玛露莎(英格波佳·达库内提 Ingeborga Dapkunaite 饰)、女儿一起在别墅中度过幸福时光。不料,一名不速之客闯进了这里。当他揭开层层乔装的外物时,人们认出了他——一个失踪了十年的没落贵族米迪亚(欧列格·米契柯夫 Oleg Menshikov 饰)。米迪亚的到来犹如地狱派来的使者,随着他娓娓道来的故事,米迪亚和科托夫之间的恩怨纠结、和玛露莎之间的陈年旧情以及随着时代而扭曲的人生,都在故事中一一展开。而更为残酷的是,他带来了一个令科托夫一家陷入绝境的消息……
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?