Kira Muratova – MRQE

Chekhovskie motivy

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

The film is based on A. P. Chekhovs play Tatiana Repina and short story Difficult People. At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide.

Melodiya dlya sharmanki

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reunite with the last link of their shattered family.

Dva v odnom

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This celebrated director’s “exquisite cruelty” appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One’s two parts, “Stagehands” and “Woman of a Lifetime,” celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality – if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal.

Tri istorii

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbors five-year-old daughter all the abomination of her lumpen existence. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.

Pismo do Amerika

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

A couple of post-Soviet slackers want to record a video message for their friends who have moved to the United States. Muratovas view of different types of freedom and pleasure.

Uvlecheniya

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Blonde Lilia and brunette Violetta are fascinated by horse racing, and the young racers are more than a little attracted to them, too. However, the worlds of sporting and romance don’t always coexist peacefully as the two girls learn the hard way through a series of touching, surreal, and sometimes heartbreaking encounters. One of the most beautifully photographed Russian films in recent years, this acclaimed modern classic was hailed at numerous film festivals including the Berlin Film Festival and Russia’s Kinotavr Festival, where it won the Jury and Critics Prizes. Amazon

Astenicheskiy sindrom

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

In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it’s termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it’s not much fun.

Korotkie vstrechi

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

Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya’s apartment. Valya, who is a member of the local District Committee, does not know that Nadia fell in love with her currently absent husband, a geologist named Maksim, when he had visited Nadia’s village during a recent expedition.