Yuriy Arabov Movies

Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his...

Having learned that the empty monastery is facing a thorough reconstruction, the architect decides to capture it alone and prepare design...

A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.

This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs...

A person with amnesia writes down his memories in an attempt to reconstruct his life history.

The film is a parable about fear; it is a story about the attitudes of a mother and daughter deprived of love, who temporarily find mutual...

An exploration of 20th century Russia, following the fusing of the Party and the state after the Russian Civil War, which opened the doors to...

Volodya, who lives with his mother in the apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, gets a pre-revolutionary book on magic rituals of Africa....

Before leaving Russia and moving to Western Europe, famous opera singer Lyuba travels to her hometown to say goodbye and show her teenage son around....

Albania in the 1960s, the city of Gjirokastra. Katya, a graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University, marries an Albanian, a young...

A 1993 Russian language drama film directed by Andrei Dobrovolsky, starring Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandra Butorina and Aleksandr Adabashyan. The film...

It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange...

A famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.

The film is based on real events that took place in Samara in 1956 and known as the "Standing Zoe." During the holiday girl, without waiting her...

The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it...

Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and...

A story of a young girl Claudia who works as a security guard on a slowly dying metal plant.

A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall:...