2026 Movie Catalog

The Assassin Of The Tsar - English Version

Dir: Karen Shakhnazarov

THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR is a mysterious psychological drama / thriller in which the tormented chambers of a patient's mind come to warp everything around him, even the folds of history itself. Malcolm McDowell (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE) stars as Timofeyev, a severe schizophrenic in a Soviet mental hospital who is convinced that, impossibly, he's the killer of two Tsars decades earlier.

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The Assassin Of The Tsar - Russian Version

Dir: Karen Shakhnazarov

THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR is a mysterious psychological drama / thriller in which the tormented chambers of a patient's mind come to warp everything around him, even the folds of history itself. Malcolm McDowell (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE) stars as Timofeyev, a severe schizophrenic in a Soviet mental hospital who is convinced that, impossibly, he's the killer of two Tsars decades earlier.

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Zerograd

Dir: Karen Shakhnazarov

Part Kafka, part Agatha Christie and part Monty Python, Russian director Karen Shakhnazarov's surreal satire of Communism follows an Everyman engineer named Varakin (Leonid Filatov) who arrives in a remote city where nothing quite makes sense, but everyone acts as if it does. And once he arrives in Zerograd, he finds himself unable to escape.

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The Tale Of Tsar Saltan

Dir: Aleksandr Ptushko

Based on a famous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN is one of director Aleksandr Ptushko's most sublime creations: a ravishingly beautiful fantasy about love, magic, betrayal and abandoned family.

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David Susskind Archive: Interview With Nikita Khrushchev

Dir: David Susskind

October 1960. The Cold War was at its zenith. Nikita Khrushchev visited the United Nations NY. David Susskind announces that he would appear on his show 'Open End'. Negative reaction from both press and public followed. No Soviet leader had been interviewed by an American, much less live on TV. What followed was a contentious, open discussion comparing Soviet communism with American capitalism.

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Sampo

Dir: Aleksandr Ptushko

Based on the Finnish national epic "Kalevala," director Aleksandr Ptushko's ravishing, mystical fantasy tells the story of a sinister witch Louhi (Anna Orochko) who covets the Sampo, a magical, rainbow-colored mill that can produce endless salt, grain, and gold. When the hero Lemminkäinen (Andris Oshin) attempts to stop her, Louhi steals the sun, plunging the world into eternal darkness.

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Ilya Muromets

Dir: Aleksandr Ptushko

Legendary fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko's sweeping, visual F/X-filled epic is one of his most enchanting achievements: a stunning Cinemascope ballad of heroic medieval knights, ruthless Tugar invaders, wind demons and three-headed fire-breathing dragons.

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