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Matthew Passion (Russian: Страсти по Матвею, romanized: Strasti po Matveyu) is a 2023 Russian coming-of-age romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Sergey Ilin. Young stars Denis Vlasenko and Valeriia Zoidova in a touching love story between a young altar boy and a daring artist.
The Challenge (Russian: Вызов, romanized: Vyzov) is a 2023 Russian space drama film co-written and directed by Klim Shipenko. It is the first professionally made fictional film that has scenes in which professional actors appear shot in space.
Hooked on the Game (Russian: На игре, romanized: Na igre) is a 2009 Russian action film directed by Pavel Sanayev, it is a science fiction adaptation of a comic book applied to video gamers. It is based on Alexander Chubaryan's novel Games into Life. Working title of the film was Gamers.
In Russian folklore, there is a whole corpus of tales about an incredibly stupid man named Ivan the Fool. He often does things that are unbelievable in their stupidity and absurdity.
Summary. Andrei Zvagintsev's The Return (2003) is one of the defining films to emerge from Russia in the first decade of the new millennium. There can be little doubt that it is heavily influenced by the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, yet it manages to become something much more than an imitation.
Mar 1, 2019 · In commissioning a film about Ivan the Terrible, Stalin expected Eisenstein to celebrate Ivan as the first tsar, a progressive and visionary leader, and the founder of a unified, centralized, modern Russian state.
Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Tarkovsky's feature-length debut, is also known in English under the title My Name Is Ivan. It recounts the story of a boy-soldier who volunteers to work as an agent for Soviet partisans during WWII after his family has been slaughtered by Nazi soldiers.
