Russia

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  Gugara

  Poland | 2008 | 58/69min

  This is the story of the decline of a small Siberian community. This perceptive documentary describes the paradoxical world of former nomads and reindeer herdsman that were forced to abandon their ancient way of life. Read More

   
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  Revue

  Germany, Russia, Ukraine | 2008 | 82min

  Black & white film based on unique material from old Soviet newsreels from the 1950s and 1960s revive the time of Soviet propaganda. Read More

   
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  Wild, Wild Beach

  Russia / Germany | 2006 | 85/125min

  “…A brave, unflinching and willingly unpopular and unsavory film showing the most brutal face, and the muscle, of Putin-era Russia, cavorting on a summer beach. …” VPRO Joris Ivens jury, IDFA 2006 Read More

   

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  Prirechnyy - The Town That No Longer Exists

  Norway | 2006 | 52min

  The inhabitants of the Russian town of Prirechnyy have received a letter from the county of Murmansk telling them that their town no longer exists. A handful of retired persons refuse to leave their community. Read More

   
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  Harbours - Gateways to the World New York. Shanghai. Hamburg. Dubai. Vladivostok

  Germany | 2005-2006 | 5x52/5x30min

  A five-part series on itchy feet and untold dreams, high-tech cranes and homesick nights, tedium and sailor's brides. Read More

   
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  Blockade

  Russia | 2005 | 52min

  Impressive visual material of the siege of Leningrad as a breathtaking reanimation of reality. Read More

   
   

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  Gagarin’s Pioneers

  Germany / Russia | 2005 | 100min

  Young pioneers betrayed their fatherland at the age of 10, fleeing with their parents from the Soviet Union to Israel - or they changed their names, wiped away the traces of their Jewish family history and stayed. Read More

   
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  Death on the Eastern Front

  Germany | 2003 | 2x52’/2x44min

  Based on Antony Beevor's best-selling book “Berlin, the Downfall, 1945”, Sven Ihden investigates the mental state of the German and Soviet armies and the subsequent dramatic effects on the civilian population. Read More

   
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  Bunker - The Last Days

  Germany / Switzerland | 2002 | 58/83min

  Women and children who survived the Allied bombing and the Russian invasion tell of the horror of the last days of WWII in Berlin's bunker labyrinth. Read More