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Showing 1 - 10 of 31 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Slavic Studies
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
Blue Helmet
François Crémieux served as a French UN peacekeeper near the Bosnian town of Bihać. He never saw combat, but he was left deeply shaken by the experience.
Icarus Films | 1995 | 25 minutes
Calling the Ghosts
CALLING THE GHOSTS is the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyday weapon as bullets or bombs
Women Make Movies | 1996 | 63 minutes
Disco and Atomic War
The Soviet regime in Estonia went head to head with J.R. Ewing and the heroes of Western television...and lost.
Icarus Films | 2009 | 80 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
Gorbachev. Heaven
Director Vitaly Mansky's portrait of the storied Soviet leader Mikail Gorbachev wherein he presents his final testimony.
Icarus Films | 2021 | 100 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 Putin Came to Power
A detailed investigation, with archives and exclusive interviews with the participants, into how Vladimir Putin rose from mayoral aide in St. Petersburg, to President of Russia, in only eight years.
Icarus Films | 2005 | 52 minutes
How to Save a Dead Friend
Together, two young lovers create an unbreakable bond within a destructive world.
Lightdox | 2023 | 103 minutes
Kapr Code
Traces of controversial composer Jan Kapr meet with memory of film in new opera songs featuring turbulent political, personal and creative transformation.
Lightdox | 2022 | 91 minutes