Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

Full movie:
Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (1980) pt. 1
Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (1980) pt. 2
Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (1980) pt. 3

53th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Winner
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Москва слезам не верит)
1980
Soviet Union
Color
Directed by Vladimir Menshov

Plot: This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.

Theme: Drama

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Leviathan

87th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
Leviathan (Левиафан)
2014
Russia
Color
Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev

Plot: In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

Theme: Drama

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12

80th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee
12
2007
Russia
Color
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov

Plot: A loose remake of 12 Angry Men (1957), set in a Russian school. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather. Stepfather took teenager to live with him to Moscow, during Chechnya war, in which teenager lost his parents. The jurors: a racist taxi-driver, a suspicious doctor, a vacillating TV producer, a Holocaust survivor, a flamboyant musician, a cemetery manager, and others represent the fragmented society of modern day Russia. A stray bird (a touch of New Age cinema) is flying above the jurors' heads, alluding to tolerance. (Written by Steve Shelokhonov)

Theme: Courtroom, Crime

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Burnt by the Sun

67th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Winner
Burnt by the Sun (Утомлённые солнцем)
1994
Russia
Color
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov

Plot: Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call... (Written by Michael Brooke)

Theme: War, Communist

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