Irina Sokolova – MRQE

Edelweisspiraten

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

Cologne towards the end of the Second World War. The city is in ruins, everyone is afraid, many are dead. It is a time of great inhumanity. Colognes young Edelweiss Pirates refuse to submit to the pressure of the Nazi regime. They fight with the Hitler Youth and scrawl anti-war propaganda on walls. Karl is an Edelweiss Pirate; his younger brother, Peter, is in the Hitler Youth movement. The two young men have been alone ever since their mothers death in a bombing raid; their father is serving at the front, and their older brother, Otto, has been killed in action. Ottos financée, Cilly, is doing her best to survive the war with her children. Carl is trying to help her.

Lyubovnik

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

This is a remarkably subtle filma character study that focuses on Mityas attempts to cope with each new startling phase of discovery. At first he mourns for his dead wife, but then he discovers that he didnt really know her.

Konets veka

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“The Institute of Conscious Dreams” – the so-called clinic is a mysterious place. True miracles happen here. It is here, during psychedelic sessions, that a door opens into a different reality, into the depths of a person’s consciousness and his genetic memory.

Dni zatmeniya

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government’s earlier mania for relocating and eliminating whole ethnic groups and classes of people. These desperately unhappy people are unable to find any pleasure in this diverse companionship, but instead are antagonistic to it, and often resort to desperate measures in their doomed attempts to ease their pain.

Skorbnoye beschuvstviye

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it reflects the play which inspired it, the ferociously antiwar Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw. A large group of family and friends have gathered at this country house to dance, drink, and converse. Their conversation, in particular, is adorned with erudite literary references and quotations. Despite their apparent refinement, their preoccupations are simple: sex and violence. Disquieting images break the tranquility of the vacationers’ inappropriate idyll: some of these include documentary footage of starving African children, images (both real and re-enacted) of George Bernard Shaw going about his daily life, and a corpse coming to life on an autopsy table, only to cheapen that miracle by scolding a group of women. The music used in the film ironically points to its disturbing message and is uniformly anachronistic.