Oleg Menshikov

East-West (1999)

Cast: Catherine Deneuve Sandrine Bonnaire Regis Wargnier Om Puri   

Tags: Melodrama Marriage Drama Period Film Political Drama Drama 

Length: 120min

French director Regis Wargnier's fifth feature film is a romantic period drama which is also a tribute to the victims of a tragic Stalinist episode. In June 1946, Stalin launched a major propaganda campaign aimed at Russians who had settled in the...

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Mama (1999)

Tags: Crime Drama Drama Family Drama 

Length: 100min

A family finds itself torn between loyalty to their brother and fear of their domineering mother in this drama from Russia. Four brothers living in different parts of Russia all receive messages asking them to come home to Moscow as soon as possible....

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Sibirsky Tsiryulnik (1999)

Cast: Richard Harris Oleg Menshikov Marina Neelova Alexei Petrenko Daniel Olbrychski   

Tags: Romance Epic Period Film Romantic Epic 

Length: 176min

Love blooms amidst the backdrop of czarist Russia in Nikita Mikhalkov's The Barber of Siberia. The story opens in 1905 Springfield, MA, when a woman writes a letter to a young man in a military summer-training camp. He is currently being punished by...

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Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)

Cast: Sergei Bodrov   

Tags: Anti-War Film War Drama POW Drama Drama 

Length: 98min

Political rivals, divided by a bloody war, are forced to come to terms with one another in this drama, which was adapted from Leo Tolstoy's short story "Prisoner of the Caucasus." In Chechnya, two Russian soldiers, nervous rookie Vania (Sergei Bodrov,...

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Burnt by the Sun (1994)

Cast: Yevgeny Mironov Vyacheslav Tikhonov   

Tags: Psychological Drama Political Drama Drama 

Length: 152min

Stalinist Russia, circa 1930, is recreated in this Russian-French film that focuses on a small, elite gathering of family and friends who appreciate the idealism of Stalin's visions because they do not have to experience its darker side of gulags and...

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Dyuba-dyuba (1992)

Length: 140min

Andrei's ex-girlfriend Tania (Anzhela Belyanskaya) has been constantly in danger of going to jail since he knew her. Their breakup was not his doing, and he is determined to keep her out of jail. Andrei (Oleg Menshikov) has a notion that, if he can...

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Pokrovskiye Vorota (1982)

Cast: Mikhail Kozakov   

Tags: Romance Ensemble Film Romantic Comedy Comedy of Manners Comedy Urban Comedy 

Length: 140min

In a series of vignettes, Moscow of the 1950s comes back to life as Konstantin (Mikhail Kozakov, also the director) reminisces as he stands by the Pokrov Gate, thinking about the house he used to live in and his neighbors and friends (the young...

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