Captive
4-5 stars, typical russian film sad but with great detail, military detail.
Aleksei Uchitel
Filmography
-
The Edge
THE EDGE is a story of suppressed passion and destructive obsession set in a remote post WWII Siberian village, sparked by the arrival of Ignat, an emotionally and physically damaged Soviet tank commander with an obsession for steam engines. His self destructive streak causes increasing havoc...Watch Movie
-
Captive
Two Russian soldiers, the seasoned and laconic Rubakhin and the cheerful and frivolous rifleman Vovka, walk over the mountains and through the gorges of Chechnya searching for a guide to lead their convoy out of an ambush. Only a local who knows the trails can do it, but the locals are enemies,...Watch Movie
-
Dreaming of Space
The USSR, 1957, time of hope and genuine belief that the future will undoubtedly be bright. The Soviet satellite is conquering space, and on the Earth, in a little port city, the bright beaming eyes of Konyok and Lara (a naive restaurant cook and his waitress girlfriend)...Watch Movie
-
The Stroll
Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age they can live a whole life in one day. A young girl and her two...Watch Movie
Genres
- Action/Adventure / Wilderness
- Crime / Transgression / Kidnapping
- Drama / Bromance
- Drama / Expedition
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- Drama / Tragedy
- International / Eurasian / Russian
- Sport / Racing
- War
- War / WWII
Recent Reviews
The Edge
Beneath the brutality and dramatic story line, there is a poetic resonance that comes through in the gazing without speaking, not just from the major characters, but the people as...
The Edge
a gem of Russian cinema! fine performances, good story and action, the real stars are the train and of course the Russian Bear lol thanx fandor
The Edge
4 ½ Engaging adventure vividly portrays the cold, squalor and casual brutality of late-Stalinist exile in the Siberian wilderness while rough humor and charismatic Mashkov as the monomaniacal engineer warm...
The Edge
I thought this was a nearly great movie. It definitely has the feel of a Russian (ne' Soviet) production. The actors are rough, and the extras are obviously nothing but...