Russian Literature Movies
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The Idiot
The IdiotMOVIE
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kame...
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War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei BolkonskyMOVIE
The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich noble...
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers KaramazovMOVIE
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons...
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War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha RostovaMOVIE
In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prin...
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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812MOVIE
In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre...
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War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre BezukhovMOVIE
As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also An...
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Anna Karenina
Anna KareninaMOVIE
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's compani...
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Onegin
OneginMOVIE
Evgeniy Onegin lives in grand style: balls, receptions, theater premieres and other frivolities the capital can offer a young man. But social life has...
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Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Life and Fate by Vassili GrossmanMOVIE
The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980),a literary masterpiece, a monumental...
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Tom, Dick and Harriet
Tom, Dick and HarrietMOVIE
When Tom loses his job at an advertising agency, he enlists a youthful con-man to help save his career.
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Anna Karenina
Anna KareninaMOVIE
The film is a Bolshoi Ballet version of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with choreography by Maya Plisetskaya who also took on the titular role. Anna Kare...
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Andrei Bely: Armenia
Andrei Bely: ArmeniaMOVIE
The film is a cinematic interpretation of the travel book “Armenia” by Russian poet Andrei Bely.
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The Real Doctor Zhivago
The Real Doctor ZhivagoMOVIE
Dr. Zhivago is one of the best-known love stories of the 20th century, but the setting of the book also made it famous. It is a tale of passion and fe...
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Hedda Gabler
Hedda GablerMOVIE
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and na...
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The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian HistoryMOVIE
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...
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A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our TimeMOVIE
1837. The grueling Caucasian War. The young officer Grigory Pechorin was sent into exile in the active army in the Caucasus for participating in a due...
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Ward Six
Ward SixMOVIE
A doctor from provincial town in Tsardom of Russia meets his former student in Ward 6, where the story takes place. Impressed by his rebellious spirit...
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Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna
Tolstoy: The Man Behind AnnaMOVIE
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karenina.
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The Centuries Surround Me with Fire
The Centuries Surround Me with FireMOVIE
A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938),the groundbreaking Soviet poet and diss...
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A Lear of the Steppes
A Lear of the SteppesMOVIE
Based on Turgenev's novel