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Showing 1 - 10 of 21 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND 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
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
How to Save a Dead Friend
Together, two young lovers create an unbreakable bond within a destructive world.
Lightdox | 2023 | 103 minutes
Inside Russia
Hundreds of thousands have fled Russia and those who remain have to choose: stay silent, or support the war in Ukraine.
EPF Media | 2023 | 54 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
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
Life 3 - Cheated of Childhood
The International Labor Organization tries to rescue and rehabilitate the street children of St. Petersburg.
Bullfrog Films | 2003 | 23 minutes
Marius Petipa: The French Master of Russian Ballet
Tells the extraordinary story of Marius Petipa, the groundbreaking French choreographer who went on to create Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty.
Icarus Films | 2019 | 52 minutes
