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Showing 1 - 10 of 23 titles with a criteria of Subject is Russia
Art and Oligarchs
Newly-minted Russian art collectors have many reasons for investing in fine art, some more sleazy than others.
Icarus Films | 2010 | 52 minutes
Close Relations (Rodnye)
Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore country’s society after the Maidan revolution.
Icarus Films | 2016 | 114 minutes
Double Life, a Short History of Sex in the USSR
Revisits 70 years of communist power in the Eastern Bloc through the prism of sexuality.
Icarus Films | 2017 | 52 minutes
From Chechnya to Chernobyl
Fleeing the war in Chechnya, refugees have settled near Chernobyl.
Bullfrog Films | 1998 | 45 minutes
The Gas Weapon
A clear and much-needed examination of the role natural gas and gas pipelines play in the geopolitics of Russia and Ukraine.
Icarus Films | 2014 | 52 minutes
The Hermitage Dwellers
This kaleidoscope of people and events in the great museum unfolds into a poignant account of Russia's painful 20th century transformed by the 'dwellers' intimate relationship with the art.
Icarus Films | 2003 | 73 minutes
La Supplication (Voices from Chernobyl)
Based on the novel by Svetlana Alexievich, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature, the film examines with the world of Chernobyl, about which we know very little. Eyewitness reports have survived: scientists, teachers, journalists, couples, children. They tell of their old daily lives, then of the catastrophe.
Andana Films | 2017 | 86 minutes
The Last Bolshevik
Chris Marker's tribute to Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin.
Icarus Films | 1998 | 116 minutes
Leninland
The world's largest museum devoted to Lenin offers a 'true Soviet-era experience.' But can it survive in the new Russia?
Icarus Films | 2013 | 52 minutes
Liberation: The User's Guide
Julia, Ina, Olga and Katia are inmates held in a Siberian mental facility against their wishes.
Icarus Films | 2016 | 80 minutes
