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Burnt by the Sun
Nino Abuladze, T. Akopova
Sony Pictures, 2003
Watch it over and over
+ Highest Quality
+ Most enjoyable....
+ burnt by the fire of the USSR revolution
+ Incredible Movie
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Russian Ark: The Masterworks Edition
Anna Aleksakhina, Konstantin Anisimov
Fox Lorber, 2003
A magisterial tour de force historical journey!
+ Triumph of style over substance
+ Russian Ark--An Art Journey
Marquis de Countese, a French diplomatic of XVII joins us in a mesmerizing and minimalist recount around the most emblematic passages of the Russian history.
Employing the Hermitage Museum as a huge stage, we will see since Catalina The Great to the Romanov Dynasty and the great Imperial ...
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From Russia With Love
Pedro Armendáriz, Martine Beswick
MGM (Video & DVD)
The Best Bond Film
+ Ray, Blu Ray
+ Good, but not as good as others say.
+ Oustanding!
+ My favorite early-Bond film
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Anna Karenina (1977) - The Complete Miniseries
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WEA, 2004
A magnificent rendition!
+ Terrific Miniseries. Very Faithful To The Novel.
+ faithful and true
+ A tale of love, marriage, guilt and consequences
+ Two Thumbs Way Up!!
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Anastasia
Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner
20th Century Fox, 2003
Great film, horrible voice track!
+ Thoroughly enjoyable!
+ Early Technicolor, Brilliant, Moving, Just Utterly First Class
+ RESTORATION AND EXTRAS MAKE IT GREAT..ER!!!!
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Crime & Punishment - The Complete Miniseries
Carinthia West, David Dodimead
WEA, 2003
Raskolnikov Meets Dr. Phil
+ Know what you are buying!
+ Guilt, the best punishment for crime
Dr. Phil: My first guest tonight is a man who has some impulse-control problems.
Raskolnikov: What do you want? When will you leave off tormenting me?
Dr. Phil: Hold it right there. Seems to me you need an attitude adjustment.
(Raskolnikov turns abruptly and stares at the wall.)
Dr. ...
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War and Peace (Special Edition)
Nikolai Grinko, Irina Gubanova
Image Entertainment, 2003
Monumental, Oustanding Film
+ War and Peace - Russian version
+ War and Peace (Special Edition)
+ THE PHANTOM FIFTH DISK
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Doctor Zhivago (TV Miniseries)
Sam MacLintock, Keira Knightley
Acorn Media, 2003
New is not always bad.
+ A Majestic Film With Excellent Performances, Well Directed, And A Better Adaptation; But Missing The Music Of Lean's Production
+ Mostly better than the original movie
+ An Authentic Zhivago
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Prisoner of the Mountains
Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr.
MGM (Video & DVD), 2003
Marvelous acting by Menshikov
+ Prisoner of the Mountain
+ Appreciation
+ Tovarich
+ A Tragic and Triumpante Forgien Film!
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The Thief
Vladimir Mashkov, Yekaterina Rednikova
Sony Pictures, 1999
beautiful portrait of a land, a nation and a family
+ Fantastic
+ A Film Well Worth Re-Visiting
+ One of my all-time favorites
+ Forget the Kleenex, get a towel
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Anna Karenina (1935)
Greta Garbo, Fredric March
MGM (Warner), 1998
Anna Karenina
Another Greta Garbo great! Fredrick March and Freddie Bartholomew are equally as great. Greta Garbo plays doomed Anna Karenina. Bored with her cold husband she turns her attention to Count Vronsky she eventually runs away with him. Her powerful husband makes her choose between her lover and her ...
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Anastasia: Mystery of Anna
Amy Irving, Olivia de Havilland
Cabin Fever, 1995
Anastasia-Mini Series
+ movie
+ Great Movie!
+ Fascinating movie with a great cast
+ An engaging movie with historical signifance
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Kolya
Zdenek Sverák, Andrei Chalimon
Miramax, 2002
Heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure
+ Go Louka...
+ Charming In Substantive Way (not cute or silly)
A beautiful film which takes its time and trusts in its hugely likeable characters. The incredibly affecting relationship between Louka and Kolya is allowed to grow organically and believably. Frankly, my only criticism of the film is that their time together is far too brief. I'd have happily ...
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Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean
Warner Home Video, 1998
cinq étoiles
+ A visual masterpiece
I am shocked how many people didn't like the movie. I absolutely loved it. Anyone who read the book knows that you cannot make a 2-hour movie from 969-page book without leaving many details out. It is not supposed to be a transcript of the book! I thought everything was done excellently, including ...
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East-West
Linda Bassett, Sandrine Bonnaire
Sony Pictures, 2000
If they did this to their own people, imagine what they did to others
+ Jam Up Movie
+ French Soviet Culture Clash
+ Life in Stalin's Russia
+ brilliant
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