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- DirectorBoris EifmanStarsMaria AbashovaDmitry FisherOleg GabyshevWorld renowned choreographer Boris Eifman, offers a remarkable vision of the core ideas of the novel "The Brothers Karamazo", expanding upon them through body language as a way of exploring the origins of the moral.
- DirectorJoanna O'ConnorStarsJames EdwardsJames KingdonMax TylerThe Brothers Karamazov was Dostoyevsky's final novel. Ostensibly, it's about parricide. But Dostoyevsky was far more concerned with the internal choices we all have before us and how our choice of focus determines the course of our lives.
- DirectorKirill LavrovIvan PyrevMikhail UlyanovStarsMikhail UlyanovLionella PyryevaKirill LavrovThree brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastery, the other - a gambler, and the third - an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.
- DirectorLev KulidzhanovStarsGeorgiy TaratorkinInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyTatyana BedovaRaskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention through normal procedures (he was the victim's client), but his outbursts make him the prime suspect of the clever Porfiry. Meanwhile, life swirls around Raskolnikov: his mother and sister come to the city followed by two older men seeking his sister's hand; he meets a drunken clerk who is then killed in a traffic accident, and he falls in love with the man's daughter, Sonia, a young prostitute. She urges him to confess, promising to follow him to Siberia. Will he accept responsibility?
- StarsEvgeniy MironovIgor IvanovMarietta MelrosePrince Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where he was treated for a mental illness for several years. In St. Petersburg, he ends up in the house of his distant relatives. He finds himself in a cycle of passions and intrigues.
- StarsAleksandr AbdulovOleg BasilashviliVano MiranyanThe devil and his attendants visit Moscow at the times of the Stalin regime. Official atheistic ideology confronts with a series of supernatural events.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsArchil GomiashviliSergey FilippovMikhail PugovkinTwo gentlemen of fortune from the times of Imperial Russia are looking for an uncountable treasure at the dawn of the Soviet Union age.
- StarsAndrey MironovAnatoliy PapanovRolan BykovTwo scoundrels try to find twelve dining room chairs, into one of which a fortune in jewellery was sewn.
- DirectorVladimir BortkoStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevVladimir TolokonnikovBoris PlotnikovIn the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.
- StarsDina KorzunViktoriya IsakovaElena LyadovaBased on the novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevskiy "Bratya Karamazovi", it was his last novel which was supposed to be the first in a series but unfortunately was his last one. This versions is supposed to be closer to the book than any other released earlier.
- StarsAleksandr KuznetsovEvgeniy TkachukMaksim MatveevBased on a novel by a world-famous writer Feodor Dostoevsky.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsYuriy YakovlevYuliya BorisovaNikita PodgornyUpon Prince Myshkin's return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastasia. The choices all are forced to make lead to great tragedy.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsEdward ArnoldPeter LorreMarian MarshMan is haunted by a murder he's committed.
- DirectorRichard AyoadeStarsJesse EisenbergMia WasikowskaWallace ShawnThe unenviable life of a government-agency clerk takes a horrific turn with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite otherwise--he's a confident, charismatic ladies' man.