Courier / Kuryer / The Messenger (1986)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The story of a teenager boy in times of the comunism fall in the Soviet Union.
Starring: Fyodor Dunayevsky, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Oleg Basilashvili, Inna Churikova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Vladimir Menshov
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Tsareubiytsa / Assassin of the Tsar (1991)
Drama | History
A patient in a modern day mental institution believes that he is the man who assassinated Tsar Alexander in 1881 and Tsar Nicolas II in 1918. He and his doctor soon slip out of reality and are forced to relive the events of 1918 in order to break the spell.
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yuriy Sherstnyov, Anzhela Ptashuk, Viktor Seferov
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Gorod Zero / City Zero (1989)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Very Kafkaesque and absurdist Russian satire. An engineer arrives at a town to fix their air conditioner, comes up against a wall of beaurocracy and things that don't work and soon finds he cannot leave. Strange things happen, like a nude secretary, and being offered a pastry in the shape of his head by a suicidal chef, and then he somehow gets entangled in a local fight between Soviet traditionalists and people that want rock'n'roll.
Starring: Leonid Filatov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
The White Tiger / Belyy tigr (2012)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | War
Great Patriotic War, early 1940s. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.
Starring: Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko, Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov, Gerasim Arkhipov
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
