Russian Film Week in New York

The 7^th Day

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Kakha Kikabidze

Cast:

Anatoly Beliy, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Amiran Amiranashvili, Aleksey Kolubkov, Maxim Konovalov, Maria Poroshina, Boris Romanov, Vitaly Khayev

Nikolay gambles away a large sum of money, but refuses to pay it back, considering himself to have been tricked. The creditor sends two cut throats (Milkum and Girya) to his house and Nikolay flees. Late at night he stumbles on an old man’s house, where the old man recognizes him as his great-grandson and happily declares that he can now pass away in peace. Mulkum and Girya catch up with Nikolay in the village, commemorating the old man’s death and learn, that the old man left his grandson quite an inheritance…

Alive

Genre:

Fantasy, Drama, Mystery

Director:

Alexander Veledinsky

Script:

Igor Porublev

Alexander Veledinskiy contributed to the script

Cast:

Andrei Chadov, Maxim Lagashkin, Vladimir Yepifantsev, Aleksey Chadov, Alexander Robak

Kir is a young man who returns home, wounded from the Chechen War. His mother and a fiancé meet him, full of joy and tears, not knowing the extent to which Kir’s war experience changed him. He commits larceny and treachery and gets tangled in his destructive path. At that moment the ghosts of two of his fellow soldiers appear before him, following his every step. Balancing between life and death, Kir is searching for answers and a chance to forgive himself.

The Island

Genre:

Drama

Directors:

Pavel Lungin and Natalya Lyashchenko

Cast:

Pyotr Mamonov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Olga Demidova, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Yana Yesipovich, Aleksey Zelenskiy, Victoria Isakova, Yuri Kuznetsov, Nikita Tarasov, Timofey Tribuntsev, Nina Usatova

The movie depicts the drama of a human being who yearns to clear his soul of all the sins committed in his youth, sometimes unforgivable sins, such as treachery and murder.

Polumgla

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Artyom Antonov

Cast:

Yuri Tarasov, Anastasiya Sheveleva, Sergei Gryaznov, Johannes Rapp, Martin Yakovski, Lidiya Bajrashevskaya

It’s 1944. Dramatic, heartbreaking and sometimes happy situations develop between the German prisoners kept in the village and the Russian women who live there. Despite the hostility of the war period and the differences between these groups of people, real human relationships develop. Some learn how to hate, some fall deeply in love but most learn that a simple human connection can be found at the most unlikely circumstances.

Relations

Genre:

Melodrama

Director:

Avdotya Smirnova

Cast:

Mikhail Porechenkov, Anna Mikhalkova, Nastya Seglia, Dmitry Shevchenko, Irina Rozanova

Ilya is s a successful businessman in Moscow who owns several Hunting Equipment stores. He is happily married to a great woman and adores their 12 year old daughter. Nina is an advertising agent who lives in St. Petersburg. She is a happily married to a wonderful man, with whom she raises their 8 year old son. Somewhere between St. Petersburg and Moscow, Nina and Ilya meet and fall deeply in love. A succession of passionate dates follow and the lightness of their romance slowly fades, turning into a desperate need to see each other. As married adults, they agree from the very start that they would not divorce or arouse their spouse's suspicions. Naturally, that never happens.

Transit

Genre:

War Drama

Director:

Alexander Rogozhkin

Cast:

Anastasia Nemolyayeva, Daniil Strakhov, Yuri Itskov, Dmitry Lysenkov, Sergey Medvedev, Zakhar Ronzhin, Anna Rud, Aleksey Serebryakov, Andrei Shibarshin

It’s 1943 in Chukchi Peninsula in the North-East of Russia. Life of Russian and American pilots who transport American ‘Air Cobra’ fighter aircrafts through Alaska and Siberia to the frontline. It is a story of Russians, Americans, Aboriginals of the Far North. Love story of a Russian officer and an American pilot Mary McLain, whose language and cultural barriers lead to amusing, touching, awkward, and sometimes tragic events.

Playing the Victim

Genre:

Comedy

Director:

Kirill Serebrennikov

Cast:

Yuri Chursin, Lia Akhedzhakova, Anna Mikhalkova, Marat Basharov, Maxim Konovalov, Marina Golub, Vitaliy Khaev, Igor Gasparyan

Valya just graduated from college. To make fast cash, he gets a job “playing the victim” at a local police department. WIith the help of Charismatic captain Lyuda, who is ready to capture each move with her camera, Valya reenacts the crime as accurately as possible with funny results. Based on the novel of the same name by Presnyakov brothers.

The Last Coalface

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Sergei Bobrov

Cast:

Peter Zajtsenko, Sergei Garmash, Artur Smolyaninov, Nina Usatova

The action takes place in a miner’s town during collapse of the USSR. The protagonists are coal miners of different ages and generations. All their thoughts, joys and sorrows are connected with their families and relatives. They are in despair and do not know how to make the quality of their families’ lifes. So they decide to blow themselves up in the mine. They believe that in this case their relatives will get good compensation.

The Man of No Return

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Ekaterina Grokhovskaya

Script:

Pyotr Stepin

Cast:

Galina Jovovich (Loginova), Ekaterina Rednikova, Sergei Krapiva, Anna Churina, Andrey Egorov, Alyona Yakovleva, Sergei Chonishvili, Anna Khilkevich, Elena Valyushkina, Mikhail Remizov, Vitaly Gogunsky, Olga Zaitseva

“The Man of No Return” is a story about several families somehow connected to each other. Each family member contributes his storyline to the plot.

Peter FM

Genre:

Comedy

Director:

Oksana Bychkova

Script:

Oksana Bychkova, Nana Creenstein

Cast:

Ekaterina Fedulova, Evgeny Tsyganov, Alexei Barabash, Irina Rakhmanova, Natalia Ryova, Oleg Dolin, Evgeny Kulakov, Kirill Pirogov, Tatiana Kravchenko, Alexander Bashirov, Artyom Semakin, Alexander Khvan, Andrei Krasko, Vladimir Mashkov General producers Alexander Rodniansky, Igor Tolstunov

Once upon a time, Radio DJ Masha lost her cell phone that was later found by a young architect Maksim. Everything in their lives was going good before that phone incident. Masha was getting ready to marry her former classmate Kostya. Maksim has won an award at an international competition for architects and was ready to leave his town for work in Germany. But now, Masha and Kostya are not sure now that they want to do with their lives.

Ellipsis

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Andrei Eshpai

Script:

Elga Lyndina

Cast:

Eugeniya Simonova, Igor Mirkurbanov, Sergey Dreyden, Eugeniy Tsiganov

Adapted from a novel titled “Kira Georgievna” by Viktor Nekrasov. It's 1937. Stalin is General Secretary and it's the period of repressions. To save his wife from repressions, a young painter writes her a note before going to prison. By taking all the blame on himself, he gets 20 years of prison time. When he comes back, he finds his wife a successful sculptor who got remarried. When reconnecting with her, he tries to comprehend what happened to him and how people lived in the 20^th century.

Spy Games: The Black Wolf Hunt

Genre:

Action

Director:

Georgiy Gavrilov

Script:

Ezhen Shedrin, Aleksandr Pronin, Yuri Kamenetsky

Cast:

Igor Kostolevsky, Levan Uchaneishvili, Elena Korikova, Natasha Alam, Aleksandr Krasnopolsky, Lev Kotlyar

The third installment of the Russian James Bond series starring Igor Kostolevsky as Colonel Matveev. Following a failure to catch an international terrorist with a nickname Black Wolf in the mountains of Chechnya, Special Forces in Russia want to keep the failure under the wraps, so they turn to Colonel Matveev, already retired. Matveev starts his unofficial investigation to help out and get revenge for his friend who was killed by Black Wolf during that Chechen operation.