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Russian cinema: War

Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Sergei M. Eisenstein

In 1242, Russia is under attack on two fronts – on the East by Mongol raiders and on the West by Teutonic knights. Those Russian leaders who try to strike an alliance with the invaders are regarded as traitors, those who resist are slaughtered. After the fall of the city of Pskov, Prince Alexander Nevsky is persuaded to form an army to save his country from the Teutons... [More...]

Storm Over Asia (1928)

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Mongolia, 1918. With his father too ill to sell furs at the market, Bair, a young herdsman, must take his place. The only buyers at the market are western traders who pay as little as they can, knowing that the locals are so poor they will sell at any price. Disgusted by what he is offered for his furs, Bair attacks the traders before fleeing into the mountains... [More...]

Tegeran-43 (1981)

Aleksandr Alov

The movie is about an assassination attempt on Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Teheran Conference 1943. "Teheran 43" starts in 1980 in Paris. The memories of hero Andrei take the story back to 1943. The Germans planned to assassinate the three men. 37 years later, the German agent Max lives with his former neighbor Françoise, a young and charming Parisian woman, who hides him... [More...]

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