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Rol (2013)
‘The Role’ is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life – the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger – a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia.
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EXAELLA (anime 2011 by Andrew Oudot)
I restarted watching anime after a 4 or 5 year break. Exaella implodes with abyssal nausea, grime and orgiastic megastructures, familiar to the cavernous works of Tsutomu Nihei, so maybe that was my first cue. That being said, I truly feel we have a new and promising breed of anime: a Russian-Japanese-English production directed by…
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Ostrov – The Island (2006)
Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future. spiritual message (from wikipedia) The film is focused on father Anatoly’s repentance of…
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Mermaid (2007)
Mermaid (Russian: Русалка, Rusalka) is a Russian 2007 comedy-drama film directed and written by Anna Melikyan. It is a loose adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen‘s The Little Mermaid. It was a box office success in Russia, won numerous awards and was selected as Russia’s official submission to Foreign-Language Film category for the 2009 Academy Awards.…