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Release: January 26, 2021

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The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko’s final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus. When they fall into the hands of German forces and come face-to-face with death, each must choose between martyrdom and betrayal, in a spiritual ordeal that lifts the film’s earthy drama to the plane of religious allegory. With stark, visceral cinematography that pits blinding white snow against pitch-black despair, The Ascent finds poetry and transcendence in the harrowing trials of war. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • New selected-scene commentary featuring film scholar Daniel Bird • New video introduction by Anton Klimov, son of director Larisa Shepitko and filmmaker Elem Klimov • New interview with actor Lyudmila Polyakova • The Homeland of Electricity, a 1967 short film by Shepitko • Larisa, a 1980 short film tribute to his late wife by Klimov • Two documentaries from 2012 about Shepitko’s life, work, and relationship with Klimov • Program from 1999 featuring an interview with Shepitko • New English subtitle translation • PLUS: An essay by poet Fanny Howe

Release: April 20, 2010

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Odessa - 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on board the armored cruiser Potemkin and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailors' revolt becomes the rallying point for a Russian populace ground under the boot hells of the Czar's Cossacks. When ruthless White Russian cavalry arrives to crush the rebellion on the sandstone Odessa Steps, the most famous and most quoted film sequence in cinema history is born. Product details Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated) Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.88 ounces Item model number ‏ : ‎ 738329068127 Director ‏ : ‎ Eisenstein, Sergei M. Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, Multiple Formats, NTSC Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 15 minutes Release date ‏ : ‎ April 20, 2010 Actors ‏ : ‎ Aleksandrov, Grigori, Antonov, Alexander, Barsky, Vladimir Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English Studio ‏ : ‎ Kino Lorber films ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0036SPDEG Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1 Best Sellers Rank: #47,916 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV) #276 in Military & War (Movies & TV) #4,121 in Drama Blu-ray Discs

Release: April 26, 2022

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WORLDWIDE BLU-RAY PREMIERE OF THE EXTREME ITALIAN VERSION & U.S. CUT + BONUS SOUNDTRACK CD! In one of the earliest entries in the subgenre, ItaloFilth veteran Bruno Mattei (THE OTHER HELL, WOMEN'S PRISON MASSACRE) set the Caligsploitation standard for informative history, raid-the-peplum-props ingenuity and jaw-dropping depictions of ancient Roman depravity: When the deranged emperor (Vladimir Brajovic of THE STORY OF O) falls for an insatiable gladiatrix (Betty Roland of Mattei's CALIGULA REINCARNATED AS NERO), their reign will launch a mind-bending bacchanal of torture, sodomy, incest, castration, borrowed footage and aroused livestock. Françoise Blanchard (THE LIVING DEAD GIRL), Florence Guérin (Cozzi's THE BLACK CAT) and the infamous Sal Boris (THE BEAST IN HEAT) co-star in this saga of saturnalian obscenity, presented in both the Explicit Italian Version and Unrated U.S. Release scanned in 2K from their original negatives. BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES: Caligula: The Life Behind The Legend -- Interview With Anthony A. Barrett, Author Of Caligula: The Corruption Of Power Trailer CD Soundtrack

Release: April 30, 2013

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From legendary director Fritz Lang (METROPOLIS) comes an engrossing spy thriller years ahead of it's time. Gary Cooper (High Noon) is an American physicist, parachuted into war-torn Nazi Germany to obtain military secrets. But the deeper he probes, the deadlier his mission becomes. Especially when his involvement with the beautiful and mysterious Lilli Palmer (BODY AND SOUL) catapults him into an intense maelstrom of danger, betrayal and murder. Two of the film's best features are the terrific black-and-white cinematography by Sol Polito (SERGEANT YORK) and the rousing score by legendary composer Max Steiner (GONE WITH THE WIND).

Release: June 20, 2017

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Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, a dashing retired army officer makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when he meets the naïve young Prince and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by his undetected emotions. Now, his fate may change as a series of revelations is uncovered about his past and his present.

Release: April 17, 2018

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Based on the best-selling controversial novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls graces the screen with legendary stars Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. The story follows expatriate American demolition expert Robert Jordan (Cooper) who aides anti-fascist freedom fighters of Spain. Assisting him is a band of warriors including the strong-willed Pilar (Katina Paxinou in an Academy Award-winning performance), the dangerously undependable Pablo (Akim Tamiroff) and the lovely, innocent Maria (Bergman). As danger mounts, Robert and Maria develop a closeness that blossoms into one of the screen's greatest love stories.Epic in scope yet intimate in feeling, For Whom the Bell Tolls remains a shining example of Hollywood

Release: October 28, 2025

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Lavish treatment of Ernest Hemingway's classic novel stars Gary Cooper as Robert Jordan, an American teacher who journeys to Spain to volunteer for the American International Brigades and join forces with the Loyalists in their civil war against the Fascists. There, Jordan falls in love with a fellow freedom fighter, Maria (Ingrid Bergman), whose parents were executed by a Fascist coalition. With Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Córdova, and Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner Katina Paxinou. 166 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English DTS Lossless stereo; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; theatrical trailer; roadshow version.

Release: September 22, 2026

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A luminously beautiful Russian stop-motion animated feature based on the writings of famed Gothic author E.T.A. Hoffmann. HOFFMANIADA - 2018, Soyuzmultfilm, 78 min. One of the most luminously beautiful and richly detailed stop-motion features in recent memory, Russian director Stanislav Sokolov's masterwork finally arrives in North America. Adapted from the writings of famed Gothic fantasy author E.T.A. Hoffmann (best known for The Nutcracker & The Mouse King), HOFFMANIADA is a visually stunning cross between Henry Selick circa JAMES & THE GIANT PEACH and THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and Mozart's The Magic Flute, filled with operatic dreams, clockwork automatons, fire salamanders, witchcraft, love, magic, and the legendary city of Atlantis. Interweaving plots from three Hoffmann stories ("The Sandman," "The Golden Pot" and "Little Zaches Called Cinnabar") with the real-life drudgery of the writer's job as a government clerk, the film utilized over 150 stop-motion puppets and was the first feature project in decades from legendary animation studio Soyuzmultfilm (THE SNOW QUEEN). Featuring the voices of Vladimir Koshevoy, Slava Polunin, Natalya Fisson and Anvar Libabov. "Maybe the most ambitious stop-motion film ever made in Russia ... The puppets and animation in Hoffmaniada are breathtaking." - Animation Obsessive. In Russian with English subtitles. Bonus Materials “A Black-and-White Film” (Chyorno-beloe kino) – 1984, 19 min. Sokolov’s early stop-motion gem follows a man who drifts away from his own party and into memories of his childhood days. -“Hoffmaniada: Frame By Frame” (2018, 23 min., dir. Kevin McNeer) – a fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of HOFFMANIADA. -“Not Only Human” – new visual essay by animation historian John Adkins of Animation Obsessive. New commentary track by animation producer and podcaster Adam Rackoff, podcaster and film critic James Hancock, and filmmaker and podcaster Martin Kessler. Original trailer for film (with English subtitles). New video conversation with acclaimed British stop-motion animator Barry J.C. Purves and Deaf Crocodile’s Dennis Bartok discussing HOFFMANIADA, Purves’ own career, Ray Harryhausen and KING KONG (2026, 40 min.) Cast & Crew Actors: Vladimir Koshevoy Slava Polunin Natalya Fisson Anvar Libabov Director: Stanislav Sokolov

Release: July 2, 2024

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From acclaimed filmmaker Goran Stolevski comes a story exploring the universal truths of family, both the ones we're born into and the ones we find for ourselves. Dita never wanted to be a mother, but circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend's two daughters, tiny troublemaker Mia and rebellious teen Vanesa. A battle of wills ensues as the three continue to butt heads and become an unlikely family that must fight to stay together.

Release: January 14, 2020

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Following the devastating aftermath of nuclear war on Earth, a former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge for mankind. Limited supplies and overpopulation threaten the survivors until Obi, the leader's daughter, finds a map pointing to a power buried deep under Earth's wasted surface that could save mankind or destroy it once and for all. When an old enemy leads our heroes on an adventure into the Hollow Earth, they must fight an ancient shapeshifting reptilian race to save humanity.

Release: August 13, 2024

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Nobody made films like Kira Muratova. Uncompromising and uncategorizable, the Ukrainian iconoclast withstood decades of censorship to realize her singular vision in hypnotically beautiful, expressionistically heightened films that remain unique in their ability to evoke complex interior worlds. Her first two solo features, Brief Encounters and The Long Farewell, are fascinatingly fragmented portraits of women navigating work, romance, and family life with a mix of deep yearning and playful pragmatism. Long suppressed by Soviet authorities, these films became legendary—along with their maker—and they now make for a revelatory introduction to this most fearlessly original of artists. TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restorations, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks Interviews with scholars Elena Gorfinkel and Isabel Jacobs Archival interview with director Kira Muratova PLUS: An essay by film critic Jessica Kiang BRIEF ENCOUNTERS Kira Muratova’s first solo feature already displays her sui generis approach to cinema, in an impressionistic portrait of women at work and in love. Through an intricate play of flashbacks and shifting perspectives, Brief Encounters reveals the tangled romantic triangle that connects a hard-nosed city planner (played by Muratova herself), her free-spirited geologist husband (legendary Soviet protest singer Vladimir Vysotskiy), and the young woman from the countryside (Nina Ruslanova) whom she hires as her housekeeper. Blending observational realism with striking New Wave–style experimentation, Muratova crafts a wryly perceptive study of two very different women bound by chance and each navigating her own career, dreams, and disappointments. THE LONG FAREWELL With its daring formalist freedom, Kira Muratova’s pointillist family portrait so perplexed and unnerved Soviet censors that it effectively halted her career for years afterward. A kind of psychological breakup movie, The Long Farewell traces the growing rift that develops between an emotionally impulsive single mother (stage legend Zinaida Sharko, transcendent in one of her first film roles) and her increasingly resentful teenage son (Oleg Vladimirsky), who upends her world when he announces that he wishes to live with his faraway father. The seemingly simple premise is rendered anything but by Muratova’s dreamy, drifting style, with off-kilter framing, editing, and dialogue continually pushing cinema’s aesthetic and expressive boundaries outward. Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Release: May 24, 2016

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In this coming-of-age story based on James Franco's "Palo Alto Stories" and "A California Childhood," Ivan Cohen, an alienated teenager living in Palo Alto, California, finds solace in his fantasies of military combat while trying to find his place in the world. Unsatisfied by his slacker group of friends, his love for a girl who doesn't know he exists and a dysfunctional family life, "Memoria" raises questions about the memories we choose to keep, the ones we try desperately to forget and the ones we use as fuel to create our future. Blu-ray comes with English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.

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The 58th Berlin International Film Festival. Best Asian Film Award (NETPAC Award) / International Arts Film Review Federation Award (CICAE Award) W Winner 20th Tokyo International Film Festival Winner of the work award for Japanese Movies and a Certain Perspective Winner of the Daily Film Competition Director Award and Work Awards Winner of Bunko Yamaji Cultural Award The Vietnamese War, May Revolution in Paris, Cultural Revolution, Japan Security Warfare and the 1960s when the world was waving up. The Japanese student movement that was bound to increase school costs and opposites movement, has increased momentum with farmers and workers such as the Yasuda Kyodo enclosure, Kanda Liberty City, the Fighter Sanrizuka, and the return of Okinawa. While the arrest of the activist, the Allied Red Army was formed by young people to be Azayamasho in February 1972. After that, they were revealed one after another, and the Japanese student movement has completely stolen down.... What happened in that era. Why were the young people who aspire to revolutionize warriors? Why did you take care of the will? Why Beyond Snowy Mountains? Why did you take a gun battle at the mountain house? If you want to keep this era of driving toward Asayamasou Yamaso, Koji Wakamatsu spent his costs and stepped into production. Cast: Masaki Sakai (Miedoko Enyama), ARATA (Hiroshi Sakaguchi), Aifa Nagaki (Yoko Nagada), Go Tsunemo Mori, Nosumi Onishi (Mayoko Yoshino), Tamoto Kiyaraki (Motohisu Kato), Toshi Kato, Hito Nakizumi (Yasuhiro Ietsuki Kato. Grinding) - 1 Megumi Nose (Kazuko Ito), Chie Kazu (Minki Terashi), Sentaro Hisashita (Tataka Yamada), Yachimasa Takano (Noshiku Kato), Sago (Tsuki, Yuki Fujii (Michiyo), Yasaki Ambe (Michiyo), Erika Okuda (Misakiyasakiyoki), Ryu) Kogo Kanetani.

Release: June 26, 2018

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The Return (2003) is the stunning debut feature of Russian master Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, Loveless), which won the Golden Lion for Best Picture, as well as the Best First Film award, at the Venice Film Festival. Young brothers Andrei (Vladimir Garin) and Ivan (Ivan Dobronravov) have grown close in a household their father (Konstantin Lavronenko) abandoned. But when they least expect it, the man the boys have never known returns. Eager and bewildered, Andrei and Ivan join this mysterious stranger for a week-long fishing trip. As they travel deeper into the Russian wilderness, their journey devolves from vacation to boot camp, turning into a violent test of wills. Disturbing, tender and transcendent, The Return’s skillful marriage of psychological complexity and mythic imagery effortlessly evokes the watershed films of Andrei Tarkovsky. Special Features: Interview with director Andrey Zvyagintsev | The Return: A Film About the Film (2004, 63 minutes) | Trailers

Release: January 26, 2021

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Based on true events, the film dramatizes the Soviet space program and the dangerous mission that produced the first spacewalk.

Release: June 27, 2023

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Larissa Golubkina, Oleg Vidov, Vladimir Andreyev and Kseniya Ryabinkina star in this Russian fairy tale based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin. The story centers on Tsar Saltan, who is trying to fix his obliterated family life. Along the way he gets involved in various adventures with Tsarevich Guidon, the 33 knights led by Chernomor, and the gorgeous but bewitched Tsarevna Swan. 87 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Russian; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; featurettes; more. In Russian with English subtitles.

Release: February 27, 2018

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Godard and Gorin turn the Chicago Eight trial into a playful and provocative political farce in this Dziga Vertov Group experiment.

Release: March 24, 2026

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One of the most popular Soviet movies ever made, this classic Red Western is in the vein of HIGH NOON and A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS WHITE SUN OF THE DESERT (BELOE SOLNTSE PUSTYNI) - 1970, Mosfilm, 84 min. "Have you been here long?" quips laconic, seemingly un-killable Red Army soldier Fyodor to a man he's just discovered buried up to the neck in the middle of the desert. Director Vladimir Motyl's surreal action classic is arguably the most entertaining and beloved of the Soviet "Osterns" inspired by films like STAGECOACH, HIGH NOON and 1960s Spaghetti Westerns (and certainly by Kurosawa's YOJIMBO as well.) Set during the Russian Civil War, the story follows Fyodor (Anatoliy Kuznetsov) tramping across the endless sands of Turkmenistan and desperate to get back home to his wife -- when he's diverted into guarding a harem of Muslim women caught in a struggle between a renegade Red Army unit and local Basmachi guerillas led by Abdullah (Kakhi Kavsadze). Filled with endlessly-quotable dialogue and song lyrics -- "A knife is good for he who has it -- and it's bad for he who doesn't at the right moment" and "No luck in dying, I'll have luck in love" are two gems --, WHITE SUN is as visually striking as Leone's A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, with its resourceful hero waging a one-man battle against the bandit chieftain and his army. (It also has a surprisingly feminist theme with Fyodor encouraging the niqab-wearing women to take control of their destinies: "Comrade women, the revolution has set you free!" he exhorts them.) The best comparison, though, may be to Georgiy Daneliya's sci-fi masterpiece KIN-DZA-DZA! (also released by Deaf Crocodile): both films are about Everyman Russians trapped in surreal alien desert landscapes, and rather than freaking out, responding in the most matter-of-fact ways to whatever strange misfortunes they encounter. One of the most popular Soviet films ever made, WHITE SUN has been beautifully restored by Mosfilm for its first-ever U.S. Blu-ray release through Deaf Crocodile, in association with Seagull Films. In Russian with English subtitles. Bonus Materials 1st ever U.S. Blu-ray release Newly restored by Mosfilm New audio commentary by film historian Rolf Giesen New essays by Russian film scholar Peter Rollberg New essay by film critic Walter Chaw New video interview with Russian expert on Red Westerns, author Sergey Lavrentyev New artwork by Beth Morris Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie with FIdelity in Motion Cast & Crew Actors: Anatoliy Kuznetsov Kakhi Kavsadze Director: Vladimir Motyl

Release: November 29, 2022

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For Moscow engineer Alexey (Leonid Filatov), the business trip sounded simple enough-train to a remote city, deliver the specs for a custom factory part. Once there, though, surreal situations start to occur-from a nude receptionist to being served a dessert in the likeness of his own head-and he'll learn to his dismay that getting into town would be far easier than getting out. Absurdist mystery and poke at perestroika co-stars Vladimir Menshov, Oleg Basilashvili, 103 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Russian; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; featurette. In Russian with English subtitles.