Kino Lorber 2019-20 Home Video Catalog - Catalog - Page 78
WORLD CINEMA
Russian Visionaries
ANDREI TARKOVSKY
THE SACRIFICE
Tarkovsky’s haunting vision of a world
threatened with nuclear annihilation. Made
as he was dying of cancer, THE SACRIFICE
is Tarkovsky’s personal statement, a profoundly moving, redemptive tragedy steeped
in unforgettable imagery and heart-wrenching emotion.
Sweden. 1986. 145 minutes. Color.
Swedish w/optional English subtitles.
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Hard To Be A God
“BEAUTIFUL, BRILLIANT, AND LIKE A MESSAGE
FROM A DIFFERENT TIME.” - Cinemascope
“It’s BREATHTAKING in HD.” - DVD Talk
NOSTALGHIA
Tarkovsky’s brooding late masterpiece is a
darkly poetic vision of exile. Andrei, a Russian
intellectual, becomes obsessed with the Botticelli-like beauty of his translator Eugenia,
as well as with the apocalyptic ramblings of
a self-destructive wanderer named Domenico
(Erland Josephson, The Sacrifice). A mystical
and mysterious collision of East and West,
shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide.
Aleksei Yuryevich German
HARD TO BE A GOD
When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final film, an adaptation of the revered
sci-fi novel by the Strugatsky brothers (authors
of the source novel for Stalker). Taking place on
the planet Arkanar, which is in the midst of
Italy/Russia. 1983. 125 min. Color. Italian and
its own Middle Ages, the film focuses on Don
Russian w/English subtitles.
Rumata (Leonid Yarmolnik), one of a group of
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with the proviso that they must not interfere
in the planet’s political or historical development. Treated by the planet’s natives as a kind of divinity, Don Rumata is both godlike and impotent in the
face of its chaos and brutality.
Russia. 2013. 177 min. B&W. Russian.
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Alecander Sokurov
RUSSIAN ARK
One of the most staggering technical achievements in the history of movies, RUSSIAN
ARK consists of one unbroken 96-minute
tracking shot through the halls of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Dizzyingly
beautiful, the viewer is led through hundreds
of years of Russian history, from encounters
with Catherine the Great to a gorgeous recreation of the last Royal Ball held in 1913.
Russia. 2002. 99 min. Color. Russian w/English subtitles.
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“Staggering and brilliant.” - Time Out NY
Alecander Sokurov
THE SUN
Alexander Sokurov continues his brilliant investigation into the lives of dictators with this “engrossing, supremely assured” (Village Voice) film.
Following up his portraits of Hitler in Moloch
(1999) and Lenin in Taurus (2001), the film is a
mesmerizing tour of Emperor Hirohito’s final days
in power during the waning moments of WWII.
2005. 110. Color. English and
Japanese w/ English Subtitles.
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The Return
“Beautifully structured and emotionally wrenching.”
- Chicago Reader
Andrei Zvyagintsev
THE RETURN
In this haunting drama, two brothers’ lives
are forever changed when the father who
abandoned them suddenly reappears. Initially
thrilled, the boys strain under the weight of his
awkward and increasingly brutal attention. A
mysterious journey through the wild beauty of
northern Russia escalates into a bitter test of
will and shocking violence.
Russia. 2003. 106 min. Color.
Russian w/English subtitles.
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