Image of Western world in Russian Cinema
The list is borrowed from the article "Western world on Soviet and Russian screens" by Aleksandr Fyodorov. It shows how perception of life in the West was changing in Russia since 1992 till nowadays. War movies about WW2 were excluded due to their specificity.
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- 19931h 31mNot Rated6.0 (2.1K)DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsDmitriy KharatyanKelly McGrillAndrey MyagkovWhen mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.
- DirectorVyacheslav RebrovStarsVladimir MashkovYelena RomanovaAleksey ZharkovThe action takes place in Lwów (L'viv) on the eve of World War II. A former White Army officer (Vladimir Mashkov) after the defeat of the Whites in the civil war in Russia emigrated to Poland (Lwów was a Polish city at that time). The chief dream of his was to buy Alaska from the USA and to return it back to Russia.
- DirectorNikos KoundourosStarsManos VakousisVera SotnikovaVasilis LaggosPoet Lord Byron decides to fight with the Greek revolutionaries in Missolonghi against the Turks but instead the glorious battle wrestles with fever and his own demons.
- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsAndré DussollierTatyana VasilevaAleksey Zharkov1990s. A trade union delegation headed by Yekaterina, arrives in a small Swiss town. Grandmaster Aleksey Goryunov, who stayed in the West 20 years ago and who has hopelessly loved Katerina all his life, is staying at the same hotel.
- DirectorOleg FominStarsOleg FominSergey NikonenkoNikita Vysotskiy
- 1992–19935h6.1 (450)TV Episode
- DirectorBoris BushmelevStarsSergey MakovetskiyValentina TalyzinaTatyana VasilevaRussian immigrant Boris returns to Moscow to visit his aunt. After reporter wrote article in local newspaper about Boris seeking candidates for wife, Boris immediately became a star but he isn't really appreciate such "popularity".
- DirectorVladimir KhotinenkoStarsLarisa GuzeevaAleksey SerebryakovLeonid OkunyovThere is a secret door leading to a hidden dungeon with a magical room able to transport you into any capital in the world.
- DirectorIvan DykhovichnyyStarsAleksandr FeklistovUte LemperEvgeniy SidikhinSet in 1930s Moscow. About an aristocratic woman married to a member of Josef Stalin's secret police who embarks on an affair with a baggage handler.
- DirectorYan FridStarsMikhail BoyarskiyAleksandr AlekseevOlga BelyavskayaTartuffe is hidden behind a mask of humility and fear of God. And there's a lot of people to believe that he's truly like that.
- DirectorBoris FruminStarsVeronica AlicinoStephen C. BattsHayward BolingBlack and White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigre studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an African American building superintendent on New York's Lower East Side, and the bond that they form from living on the edges of Manhattan. Filled with an assortment of fringe artists, disenfranchised immigrants, diamond dealers and sexual surrogates, the film is ultimately about breaking down barriers between people.
- DirectorArkadiy KrasilshchikovStarsYuriy DormidontovCarole EscudiéJean-Pierre FritosCristina got acquainted with Russian puppeteer Boris, when he was hitchhiking nearby Montauban. Several years later she met him once again in Moscow.
- DirectorGennadi BeglovStarsPovilas GaidysLyudmila ArininaNatalya FateevaPrivate detective Sam Patrick investigates the mystery of disappeared jewel-box in house of Garry Shtemmer. Trail of murders makes this case more and more embarrassed.
- StarsMark PillowDonovan ScottIgor KharlamovDuring the gold rush days, a young man with his best friend go through lots of interesting adventures in Alaska from races to dangerous trips.
- DirectorIvan ShchyogolevStarsEvgeniy LeonovVladimir NosikValeriy NosikA certain Kostyleva, who was fired (cut) from her job, threatens to commit suicide. Her colleague suggests cutting him. The self-sacrifice was misunderstood by the wife of this employee. Out of jealousy, she decides to leave her husband and leave home. And he suddenly finds out that a grandfather is coming from America to visit, whom (what if he is a millionaire!) must be greeted properly - it is not every day that relatives come from the USA. The grandfather arrives in an antediluvian car to "die cheerfully" in his homeland, in Russia. They bought a coffin and a plot in the cemetery, but problems arose with death. It turned out that life is just beginning. It was in vain that the grandfather gave all the money to a sanatorium for homeless dogs.
- DirectorVitaliy MoskalenkoStarsIvan VolkovNatalya PetrovaBogdan StupkaMoscow, 1957, World Festival of Youth and Students. "Universal Friendship" is carried out under the watchful supervision of the all-powerful KGB. Igor Sinitsky, a student at Moscow State University and a talented jazz musician, lives with his uncle, Academician Lerner, in a "secure" house. Foreign intelligence is very interested in the academician's work. The charming Frenchwoman Michelle is entrusted with stealing Lerner's secret documents on the development of chemical weapons. In turn, the omnipresent KGB recruits Igor, using very dirty methods. The intelligence services of the two countries took into account everything except one thing - the possibility of the emergence of a real feeling between young people. But this happens, and events escape from the control of the intelligence officers, developing according to a new scenario written by love and the stars.