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G U I D E

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24 Nov - 1 Dec 2019

Family

Abigail + Q&A

Magician + Q&A

The Regent Street Cinema, 1 Dec, 12 pm

The Regent Street Cinema, 30 Nov, 1.30 pm

1 h 50 min | FantasyThe town that Abigail lives in has been closed for years due to a mysterious epidemic. Abigail’s journey in search of her father will completely overturn everything she thought she knew about magic, herself and the world surrounding her.

Director: Alexander BoguslavskyStars: Tinatin Dalakishvili, Eddie Marsan, Artem Tkachenko, Ravshana Kurkova, Marta TimofeevaTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

1 h 27 min | Comedy, DramaOnce popular rock-musician Fima drags pitiful existence. Everything changes when he begins to give guitar lessons to the boy Roma who has cerebral palsy.

Director: Mikhail MorskovStars: Maksim Sukhanov, Semen Treskunov, Irina KupchenkoTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

My Little SisterThe Regent Street Cinema, 30 Nov, 6.30 pm

1 h 34 min I Drama, HistoryThe film is a screen adaptation of the never-ageing classics of

Soviet literature, the novel “The Joy of Our House” by Mustai Karim. As long as Yamil can remember himself, the War has always been

here. Yamil is waiting for the War to be over so his father would return home. He is asked to take care of the little girl Oksana as of

his sister.

Director: Aleksandr GalibinStars: Arslan Krymchurin, Marta Timofeeva

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

Documentary

Kamchatka Bears. Life Begins

Sorokin Trip + Q&A

Women’s Day + Q&A

Cine Lumiere, 28 Nov, 6.30 pm

Curzon Mayfair, 30 Nov, 3 pm

The Regent Street Cinema, 26 Nov, 9 pm

55 min I DocumentaryThe film is meditative. Music, the sounds of nature and the absence of a human voice allow the viewer to plunge into the beauty of wild nature and simultaneously experience an important boundary, beyond which a person should not interfere. The film shows the world of nature that lives in line with its laws — one that is friendly to those who enter it with respect and an open heart.

Director: Irina ZhuravlevaTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

1 h 30 min I Documentary, BiographyDuring the Soviet era Vladimir Sorokin blew up the traditions of Russian literature turning it into the cruel and subversive phantasmagorias. During Putin’s first term he was the target of attacks by right-wing organisations. Now Sorokin is often perceived as a prophet who predicted features of modern Russia.

Authors: Anton Zhelnov, Yuri SaprykinDirector: Ilya BelovTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

1 h 24 min I Documentary, HistoryAstonishing stories by women from the USSR who reveal their lives

from the 1917 revolution to the present day. Intimate, surprising, funny, eccentric, painful and contradictory - this is the unknown

history of Russian feminism.

Director: Dolya GavanskiStars: Svetlana Alexievich, Natalya Kaspersky, Elena Krygina,

Dina GrigorevaTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

The Conquest Of Siberia + Q&A

Convoy 48 + Q&A

Т-34 + Q&A

Curzon Mayfair, 25 Nov, 8.50 pm



1h 48 min I Drama, HistoryIvan Demarin is a young officer of the Imperial Guard during the rule of Peter the Great. He follows the Tsar’s order and goes to Tobolsk, the frontier town located deep in Siberian forests.

Director: Igor ZaytsevStars: Ilya Malanin, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Dmitriy Nazarov, Pavel TabakovTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

2 h 05 min I Drama, HistoryBased on a true story the film is about several young women in the setting of one of the most large-scale and vital battles of the Second World War – the defence of Leningrad.

Director: Fedor PopovStars: Igor Yasulovich, Artyom Melnichuk, Anastasia TsibizovaTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

2 h 19 min I Drama, HistoryIn the times of the greatest catastrophes in the history of humanity, when lives of loved ones depend on every step of an action, two

sworn enemies will meet in a battle. Being hold as a prisoner, young lieutenant Ivushkin is planning a daring escape. He

assembles a crew and challenges the German tank aces led by Jager.

Director: Aleksey SidorovStars: Alexander Petrov, Viktor Dobronravov, Irina Starshenbaum,

Vintsents KiferTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

History

Comedy

The Humorist + Q&A

Another Woman

The Peasant + Q&A



Odeon Luxe Leicester Square, 24 Nov, 6 pm

1 h 40 min I Comedy, DramaThe Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships.

Director: Michael IdovStars: Yuriy Kolokolnikov, Aleksey Agranovich, Alisa Khazanova, Polina AugTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

1 h 32 min I Comedy, RomanceMasha, a gynaecology doctor, is so absorbed in her work that she doesn’t immediately realise that her husband is about to leave her. Masha won’t stop at anything to get him back.

Director: Anna ParmasStars: Anna Mikhalkova, Anton FilipenkoTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

Opening premiere, 1 h 30 min I ComedyA typical representative of the “golden youth” Grisha brings his rich

father to the brink of despair, who sends him to be re-educated in an unusual village where he is forced to live according to the

peasant traditions of the 19th century.

Director: Klim ShipenkoStars: Milos Bikovic, Aleksandra Bortich, Ivan Okhlobystin,

Aleksandr Samoylenko, Mariya MironovaTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

Romance and drama

High Above + Q&A

Love Them All + Q&A

The End Of Season + Q&A



The BFI, 01 Dec, 6.30 pm

1 h 44 min I Drama, RomanceA young girl spends her summer in a countryside resort under the strict supervision of her mother. A young guy with a secret past draws her attention. The girl does not foresee that her life will change forever after meeting him, and her feelings will lift her high above.

Director: Oksana KarasStars: Taisia Vilkova, Polina Vitorgan, Viktoria Tolstoganova, Filipp Avdeev, Daria Jovner, Aleksey AgranovichTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

1 h 42 min I Thriller, RomanceShe always has a plan, an individual plan for each man. They always pay, either to be with her or to get rid of her. But who can distinguish between the deceit driven by money and the moment genuine feelings begin?

Director: Maria AgranovichStars: Alena Mikhailova, Sergei Garmash, Alexander Kuznetsov, Alexander TronovTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

Closing premiere, 1h 35 min I Romance, DramaThe film tells a story of three sisters, daughters of a Soviet general. They live in Baltic provincial city but dream to move back to Russia.

However, the fate has its own plans about the sisters.

Director: Konstantin KhudyakovStars: Yuliya Peresild, Yulia Snigir, Anna Chipovskaya,

Evgeniy TsyganovTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

Action

The Balkan Line + Q&A

The Factory + Q&A

Brotherhood

Curzon Mayfair, 26 Nov, 8.15 pm

Curzon Mayfair, Nov 27, 8.50 pm


2 h 31 min I Action, Drama, ThrillerYugoslavia, 1999. The Russian task force receives an order to take control of the Slatina airport in Kosovo and hold it until the arrival of the reinforcements.

Director: Andrey VolginStars: Anton Pampushny, Gosha Kutsenko, Milos Bikovic, Milena Radulovic, Ravshana KurkovaTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

1 h 49 min I Action, DramaWhen owner Kalugin, a well-connected local oligarch, announces that his factory is bankrupt, a group of workers who haven’t been paid for months kidnap him for ransom.

Director: Yury BykovStars: Denis Shvedov, Vladislav Abashine, Andrey Smolyakov, Alexander BukharovTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

1 h 53 min I Action, HistoryThe end of the Soviet-Afghan war: 1988-1989. Based on actual

events, the previously untold story of the courageous and tragic withdrawal campaign (through the Salang pass) reveals danger,

horror and complexity of human nature during wartime.

Director: Pavel LunginStars: Mikhail Kremer, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Kirill Pirogov,

Yan TsapnikTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

Break + Q&AThe Regent Street Cinema, 25 Nov, 6 pm

1 h 25 min I Action, ThrillerA group of friends goes up to the top of a mountain in a cable car on a New Year’s Eve. Their adventure turns into a real nightmare

when, in the middle of the celebration, the rickety carriage gets stuck over the abyss.

Director: Tigran SahakyanStars: Ingrid Olerinskaya, Denis Kosyakov, Irina Antonenko, Mikhail

Filippov, Andrei NazimovTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

In The Port Of Cape Town + Q&A Bulgari Hotel, 1 Dec, 2.30 pm

1 h 47 min | Action, ThrillerThree of them met only once in the Far East of Russia in 1945. Each of the participants is sure that he killed the other two. More than half a century will pass, and one day, events related to that fateful 1945 meeting, will occur in the different parts of the Earth.

Director: Alexander VeledinskyStars: Evgeniy Tkachuk, Vladimir Steklov, Alexander Robak, Yuri Kuznetsov, Svetlana KhomichTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

Text + Q&ABulgari Hotel, 29 Nov, 7.30 pm

VIP screening, 2 h 12 min I ThrillerA 27-year-old Ilya Goryunov spent seven years in prison on false charges of drug trafficking. Although he does not intend to take revenge on the man who framed him, there is no other way out.

Director: Klim ShipenkoStars: Alexander Petrov, Kristina Asmus, Dmitriy Glukhovskiy, Pavel Golubev, Ivan YankovskiyTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

Music lovers

Yura The Musician

Sabre Dance



1 h 27 min I Documentary, BiographyThe film is about the legend of Russian rock Yuri Shevchuk and the DDT group. Eleven years of filming, dozens of cities: from Ufa to St. Petersburg, from Tallinn to Karaganda. The film contains fragments of the DDT concert performances and Shevchuk’s thoughts about life and «what will happen to the Motherland and us».

Director: Pavel SelinStars: The DDT group, Yuri ShevchukTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

1 h 33 min I Biography, Drama, HistoryThe cold autumn of 1942. Khachaturian writes his the most

performed creation “Sabre Dance” while living in evacuation with Kirov theatre in Perm. Plays, performances in hospitals, defense

factories and endless rehearsals are combined with the final efforts to create Gayane ballet and the 2nd Symphony.

Director: Yusup RazykovStars: Abartsum Kabanyan, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Sergey Yushkevic


The BattleThe Regent Street Cinema, 27 Nov, 9 pm

1 h 25 min I DramaA street dancer Anton is making a remarkable career: his team wins all the battles, he is a recognised choreographer, and all his future depends on dance. However, an accident destroys all his plans.

Director: Anar AbbasovStars: Rinal Mukhametov, Ekaterina Kukui, Anna Isaeva, Ilya AntonenkoTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

Arthouse lovers

Through A Black Glass + Q&A

Sheena667 + Q&A

The Kettle + Q&A

Curzon Mayfair, 1 Dec, 8 pm



2 h 19 min I Thriller, DramaA modern interpretation of the classic story of Cinderella. It centres on the collision of the two mindsets — religious and atheist. A love story, with the emotional temperature close to boiling.

Director: Konstantin LopushanskiyStars: Maxim Sukhanov, Vasilisa Denisova, Nadezhda MarkinaTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

1 h 37 min I DramaOlya and Vadim are in their early thirties; they are devoted and straightforward people; they share the ups and downs in their lives until a third party intrudes their lives: the Internet.

Director: Grigory DobryginStars: Vladimir Svirsky, Yulia Peresild, Jordan Rose FryeTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

1 h 36 min I Drama, ThrillerSavva is a misfit, intellectual, and nihilist from the Hood who owns

the computer club ‘The Kettle’. Savva wants to break free from the boundaries of his world. His last hope is a mysterious meeting

in the City.

Director: Eva BassStars: Alexander Kuznetsov, Alexandra Revenko, Vasiliy Butkevich


Van Goghs + Q&A

Barabbas + Q&A


Cine Lumiere, 01 Dec, 4.30 pm

1 h 43 min I DramaMark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. Victor, his father, is a famous conductor. After Viktor is diagnosed with a fatal illness, the father and son set off on a difficult journey.

Director: Sergey LivnevStars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Daniel OlbrychskiTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

1 h 56 min I DramaThe film is based on the biblical story of Christ’s death and resurrection, which we see through the eyes of Barabbas who escaped death on the cross, released by the crowd in honour of Easter.

Director: Evgeny EmelinStars: Pavel Kraynov, Albert Filozov, Regina Khakimova, Elena Podkaminskaya, Zalim Mirzoev, Konstantin SamoukovTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

Great Poetry + Q&ACine Lumiere, 27 Nov, 8.30 pm

2 h I Action, DramaGreat Poetry is about two men who live on the outskirts of Moscow

and work as cash collectors. They also love poetry. The film is about our life, so frantic, strange and lonely.

Director: Alexander LunginStars: Alexander Kuznetsov, Aleksey Filimonov, Fyodor Lavrov,

Evgeniy Sytyy, Elena MakhovaTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

The Snow Queen: MirrorlandsCine Lumiere, 30 Nov, 6 pm

1 h 27 min I Adventure, comedyA powerful king nearly lost his family due to the Snow Queen’s evil deeds. He finds a way to withdraw all the magic from the world – they who master the magic powers get trapped in the Mirrorlands.

Director: Robert Lence, Aleksey TsitsilinStars: Laurie Hymes, Samia Mounts, Marc ThompsonTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

Sheep and Wolves: Pig DealRussia Culture House, 28 Nov, 5 pm

1h 15 min I Comedy, AnimationA village of sheep and wolves leads its steady and peaceful life

when two unexpected guests suddenly arrive – a Polar fox and a small ewe. No one has expected them to bring along any danger…

Director: Vladimir NikolaevTicket link: https://bit.ly/33Nyv1Q

Animation

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