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The Red Tent

Torn by personal guilt Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

G

5.7

1969 Action 158 min Play

7.9

I Am Cuba

An unabashed exercise in cinema stylistics, I Am Cuba is pro-Castro/anti-Batista rhetoric dressed up in the finest clothes. The film's four dramatic stories take place in the final days of the Batista regime; the first two illustrate the ills that led to the revolution, the third and fourth the call to arms which cut across social and economic lines.

NR

7.9

1964 Drama 135 min Play

7.3

Letter Never Sent

Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the geologists get trapped in the woods.

NR

7.3

1960 Adventure 97 min Play

8.1

The Cranes Are Flying

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

NR

8.1

1957 Drama 97 min Play

7.1

True Friends

Story about 3 childhood friends who found each other later in life and decided to rafting on one of the Moscovian rivers.

NR

7.1

1954 Comedy 102 min Play

5.2

Conspiracy of the Doomed

During the late 1940s Ц early 1950s when not many movies were shot in the country, Kalatozov was granted the State Award (1951) for his film Zagovor obrechyonnikh (Conspiracy of the Doomed, 1950), a political pamphlet after the same-name play by N. Virta, starring the uncomparable Russian singer Aleksandr Vertinsky Фильм отражает период "холодной" войны начала 50-х годов. В одной из стран Восточной Европы строительство нового государственного строя встречает активное сопротивление. Зреет ...

NR

5.2

1950 Drama 97 min Play