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Katarsis

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Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR

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All That Really Matters poster
Movie

The outbreak of World War II separates Ola and Aleksander Wat's marriage.

All That Really Matters

Jan 1992

Stepan Guslyakov's Harem poster
Movie

The husband of a terminally ill Claudia falls in love with a neighbor, Marisha, who helps him with the housework in the absence of his wife. And a year and a half later, Claudia returns from the hospital.

Stepan Guslyakov's Harem

Aug 1990

Somebody Else's Game poster
Movie

The hero of the film, a thirty-year-old young man, returns to his hometown and discovers that he is becoming a participant in some kind of intrigue, the logic that should lead him to clash with Dima, the head of one of the local criminal gangs, Mikhail cannot avoid fighting, because the mystery of his beloved's death is connected with this name...

Somebody Else's Game

Jun 1991

The Cannibal poster
Movie

Kazakhstan. 1954. Copper mines. Concentration camp. In the center of the plot - a revolt which prisoners raised in protest against the inhuman treatment.

The Cannibal

Jan 1991

The Eastern Corridor, or Racket in the Style of... poster
Movie

In an old castle, the residence of a criminal authority, turned into a torture chamber for «knocking out» money from intractable businessmen, a representative from Moscow is waiting. The purpose of his visit is to pave the way for the territorial redistribution of zones of influence of bandit groups.

The Eastern Corridor, or Racket in the Style of...

Nov 1990

Mite poster
Movie

Police captain Adil Akhtanov, nicknamed the Tick, is suspected of murder — these are the evidence and testimony of the defendant in the next case, which was led by the captain. Nevertheless, Akhtanov's immediate boss instructs him to conduct an unofficial investigation into the death of traffic police officers. Tick takes up a new case — and very soon passes sentence to his boss, the head of the mafia...

Mite

Jan 1990

Dinosaurs of the Twentieth Century poster
Movie

Returning to his native village, a demobilized paratrooper learns that his brother has become a victim of a drug mafia. He decides to avenge his death and goes to the city...

Dinosaurs of the Twentieth Century

Feb 1990

Purification poster
Movie

The film is based on the story by L. Andreev "The Life of Vasily of Thebes" about the fate of the village priest Vasily, who, after going through a great many misfortunes, renounces God in order to regain his true faith through even greater grief.

Purification

Jan 1990

Edge poster
Movie

Patients of the resuscitator Mikhailov are people who tried to commit suicide. Veronika, a young journalist and sociologist, often visits the hospital where the hero works. Natasha, Mikhailov's wife, guesses that her husband is in love with another woman. She is jealous and increasingly feels her loneliness.

Edge

Mar 1989

Horses in the Ocean poster
Movie

A criminal drama set in the Soviet Union. Director of a Children's Theatre is sentenced to a prison term after a false accusation. He is spending his time locked up with a gang of teenagers

Horses in the Ocean

Feb 1989

Blessed Bukhara poster
Movie

The events of the film take place in the 50s in one of the most beautiful cities in the world -blessed Bukhara. This is a story about street poets living in abandoned cemeteries, in mosques, on the roofs of houses.

Blessed Bukhara

Jan 1991

Borscht from French Frogs poster
Movie

Viktor and Volodya own shares in the same company. Victor has a happy family, wife, children, and Volodya has never taken place in his personal life and, besides, he has always been in love with Victor's wife, Alina. Taking advantage of the fact that Victor borrowed a huge amount of money, he corners him and threatens him, and then orders the brutal murder of his partner. Soon, the inconsolable Alina finds a terrible film of her husband's execution and prepares for revenge...

Borscht from French Frogs

Aug 1999

Lord of Darkness poster
Movie

When the herdsman's son was born, the Great Ruler of the underworld, Erlik Khan, predicted to the newborn that he, having reached the age of seventeen, would be sacrificed to atone for human pride. But Mohammed — that's what his father called him — grew up kind and brave. The young man managed to force the Lord of Darkness to change his destiny.

Lord of Darkness

Jul 1990

Snowstormy Station poster
Movie

During the second world war two friends work at a remote railway station in the steppes. When one dies the other's request to bury him according to Islamic rituals in a sacred place is denied by the Soviet authorities, who use that place for rocket testing.

Snowstormy Station

Jan 1995

Who Are You, Ellie? poster
Movie

He has an instant reaction and an accurate eye, strong muscles and a cold mind. His friends call him simply Ellie, and the "fathers of the city" are behind him, as if behind a stone wall. However, he is not the master of his fate either...

Who Are You, Ellie?

Jul 1990

The Beloved poster
Movie

Based on the novel by Prosper Merime "Mateo Falcone".

The Beloved

May 1991

Martha I Love You poster
Movie

Several intertwined stories that occur in Mexico City

Martha I Love You

Jan 2008

I Won't Forget, I Won't Forgive poster
Movie

The daughter of the hero of the film urgently needs the help of a qualified doctor. He has the cherished address in his hands. The one to whom he is already rushing across the city recognizes him immediately. But now she's an obstetrician—gynecologist, and she's going to have a hard night.

I Won't Forget, I Won't Forgive

Aug 1990

Surzhekey: Angel of Death poster
Movie

Story of a small Kazakh community in the 1930s terrorized by a Red Army soldier whose task it is to force them to collectivize and to eliminate “kulaks.”

Surzhekey: Angel of Death

Apr 1991

Before Dawn poster
Movie

The tragic story of the life of the Dehkan Iskander and his family, engaged in the cultivation of silkworms.

Before Dawn

Aug 1994