Aleksey Petrenko – MRQE

Zhestokiy romans

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriages for her three daughters. She maintains an open house, hoping to attract gentlemen well-off enough to marry a dowry-less girl for love.

Proshchanie

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.

Underground (2007/I)

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A loose remake of 12 Angry Men, 12 is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

Pokhoronite menya za plintusom

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emotionally abusive neurotic grandmother, who wants to “shelter” her beloved grandson at all cost.

Ne khlebom edinym

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Agoniya

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.

Dvadtsat dney bez voyny

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers’ meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.