Movies, Based on Russian Novels, Stories, etc

La vida del poeta y físico ruso que, a pesar de estar casado, se enamoró de la mujer de un activista, y vivió a través de la primera guerra mundial y la Revolución de octubre.

Beautiful Dunja is bored to death at the post office of her father, far in the depths of Russia. When the dubious officer Minski arrives, she's fascinated by his stories about life in St. Petersburg and easily can be persuaded to accompany him there. Minski promises her father to marry her later. In truth he's soon tired of her and throws her out; she's passed around among the officers of the czar like a prostitute. When her father gets word of it, he wants to take revenge.

Un drama histórico que ilustra la lucha del autor ruso Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) para equilibrar fama y la riqueza con su compromiso de una vida desprovista de posesiones materiales.

Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.

Despite the disagreement of their mother, the sons of old Taras Bulba are taken to the Dnieper camp on their return from a Kiev seminary, to teach them how to become real Cossacks.

En la Ucrania del siglo XVI, los soberanos polacos y los cosacos ucranianos luchan por el control de la tierra, pero las frecuentes invasiones turcas les obligan a unirse contra el enemigo turco común.

Based on Gogol's story: It's Christmas Eve, and everyone in the village has plans. The devil and the witch Solokha are looking for ways of causing mischief. Chub the Cossack just wants some vodka. Solokha's son, Vakula the smith, wants to court Chub's charming daughter Oksana, who sets him on a quest: if Vakula will bring her the tsaritsa's shoes, Oksana will marry him. Meanwhile, the popular Solokha has a series of male visitors to contend with. When Vakula interrupts her, it sets off a chain of events that leads to a busy night for everyone.

A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a buzz in high society with his "magic", he decides to ask the Count to bring the statue to life...

The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early 17th century. The recording was actually made two years before the filming with the participation of the Washington Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich) and several opera stars (the part of Marina is sung by Galina Vishnevskaya). Zulawski made the film just as we would be watching the theatrical performance. Then we are going through the sets and, finally, we notice the film crew. The director deliberately filled the picture with a plenty of anachronisms making the implications on the Soviet history and the other dictatorships of the 20th century.

Mientras el conflicto ruso con Napoleón alcanza su punto álgido, cinco familias aristocráticas se enfrentan a la posibilidad de que sus vidas cambien para siempre.

This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin (Frank Langella), an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

The defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called "White Russians". Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and Paris. The Russian Civil War and emigration is shown through the eyes of the defeated Tsarist Generals - Vrangel, Khludov, Charnota, as well as intellectuals and aristocracy. Amidst the chaos of emigration rough generals Khludov and Charnota become involved in the unfolding love story of professor Golubkov and Serafima. While General Khludov is having hallucinations about the Civil War, General Charnota is more tough and practical. He goes to Paris to frame a wealthy Russian tycoon Korzukhin to support his former wife Serafima and other suffering Russian emigrants.

Paul is an actor who feels bogged down by his participation in a production of Chekov's play, Vanya.

In 19th century Russia, an 8 year-old boy is sent from his home village to the big city to go to school. On his long way there, he gets to witness the often harsh realities of life in the steppe. Based on allegorical novel by Chekhov.

Action happens at the end of the 16th century, on the eve of "time of troubles". The main character of this historical tragedy - the Russian tsar Boris Godunov who has ascended to a throne after Ivan the Terrible after tragic events: death of the eldest son of Grozny Fedor and death of the young tsarevitch Dimitrii.

El profesor Preobrazhensky presenta experiencias de valentía, tratando de convertir a un perro en igual a toda la persona. Desafortunadamente, la experiencia demuestra que es mejor que un perro siga siendo un perro.

Country girl Katusha is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov who, years later, finds himself on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime to which he now realizes that his actions drove her. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.

Living in squalor, a former student and loner (Raskolnikov) murders an old pawnbroker woman in order to confirm his hypothesis that certain individuals can pretermit morality in the pursuit of something greater.

Raskolnikov, un exalumno empobrecido, mata a un prestamista y a su hermana. La policía sospecha de él. Llega su familia, seguida de pretendientes. Se hace amigo de la hija de un empleado, Sonia, una prostituta que lo insta a confesar.

When reason fails, the devil helps.

A Californian law student murders a pawnbroker, then matches wits with the detective on the case.

Un hombre es perseguido por un asesinato que ha cometido.