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Every year, the Berliner Philharmoniker hold a kind of classical-music fête with a bright, cheerful concert to end the season. In 2009 about 22,000 people had come together at the Berlin Waldbühne to enjoy the traditiona
Using the example of Georgia, the film's authors explore various historical and contemporary events related to Russia's aggressive foreign policy with respect to neighboring (and not only!) countries, trying to understan
The story of the family life of the brilliant Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova appears as a problem of choosing between the values of life and the goals of art. The necessity of this
The first Soviet sexologist is sent to the gulag and is haunted by stories of fellow inmates. They provide unforgettable vignettes of Soviet sexual brutality, from the utopian ideals of the 1920s, to gay life in the 1930
An anthology of three filmed ballets, two written for the film and the third an abridgment of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake". It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. Filmed in color.
Who are the super-rich Russian elite who have chosen to make London their home? Why have they favoured the capital city? And why do they obsess about the English education system, polo and the monarchy? We enter the live
The filmmaker Elena Beloff is a Russian woman who has lived in New York for ten years. Her film explores stereotypes of Russian women which emerged in the 1990s, unfortunate stereotypes that arise from the media and hear
The Bronze Night riots began on April 26, 2007, with the removal of a statue in central Tallinn. Estonians considered the so-called Bronze Soldier in the city center a symbol of Communist repression, while for many in th
Year after year, a simple farmer from Pskov, François Toulikounkiko, tries to find his original way to succeed in a Russian village and find an answer to the question: "What prevents us from living better?". This is the
Boris Brokerov, ex-Soviet hockey star, is asked by the British News Network to make a film about the state of free speech in Russia and to learn a little on what it's like to be gay in Moscow. He undergoes a powerful tra
Exactly five stories from different parts of Russia - from Arkhangelsk to Sakhalin. The modern romantic comedy "Firefly" was filmed in Severodvinsk. The musical film “Not for the River” from Arkhangelsk is dedicated to t
In the heart of the Arctic, the Yamal peninsula is the world’s largest gas exploitation zone, a symbol of Russia’s energy hyperpower, which caused the appetite of oil corporations. But the Yamal peninsula is also the anc
The second part of Leonid Parfyonov's project "Russian Georgians" will begin with a story about Stalin's design of the Russian patriotic upsurge in the Patriotic War, after which it will capture the post-war period - the
Russia's rich cultural heritage features a fascinating array of artistic works. This in-depth documentary examines the lives and art of some prominent Russian impressionists, including Vasily Polenov, Wassily Kandinsky,
Though ballet had its genesis in the courts of Europe, it was in Russia that it evolved into the art form that we know better today – particularly with the creation of the story ballet or balet-dram culminating in tchaik
Sergei Rachmaninov, composer, conductor and one of the most brilliant pianists of the 20th century, was the last great figure of the tradition of Russian Romanticism. His works include Symphony No. 2 (1906), the symphoni
The film is about the historical role of Georgians in Russian, and later - Soviet politics, culture and science. The heroes of the film are Bagration and Shevardnadze, Pirosmani and Danelia, Balanchine and Andronikov.
