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Burnt by the Sun Nikita Mikhalkov This Academy Award-winning feature (Best Foreign Language Film) is a wonderfully intimate, Chekhovian idyll set in Stalinist Russia, which, at its conclusion, packs an explosive political climax. Director Nikita Mikhalkov plays a legendary revolutionary hero living in a dacha outside Moscow with family and friends. Most of the film's complex relationships are seen through the innocent eyes of Mikhalkov's (and the hero's) beautiful daughter in a film that gently reveals the tragedy of living under Stalinism. Russian with English subtitles. Russia, 1994, 134 mins. DVD | $44.95
Anna Nikita Mikhalkov After filming his daughter Anna over the course of 13 years, director Nikita Mikhalkov (Burnt by the Sun) incorporated that footage with news reports and propaganda films that charted the collapse of the Soviet Union. The result is this intimate, emotionally charged documentary that shows how personal and political life are forever intertwined. "Mikhalkov brings his dreamer's eye to the fall of Communism and the rise of his daughter and provides a wholly unique glimpse behind former enemy lines" (Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle). Russian with English subtitles. Letterboxed edition. Russia/France, 1994, 99 mins. Videocassette | $44.95
At Home Among Strangers, A Stranger Among His Own Nikita Mikhalkov A train robbery of a half-million dollars worth of gold sets the action in motion in this exciting early feature from the director of Dark Eyes and Burnt by the Sun. Set shortly after the Russian Revolution, the story follows the attempt to recover the gold, which belongs to the Red Army, and the mounting suspicions and scheming among the men trying to find it. "...Mikhalkov never lets the tension ease, creating a Soviet western of the mind..." (Filmmaker). Mikhalkov also acts in the film. The DVD includes Russian, English and French soundtrack options, with optional English and multilingual subtitles, interviews with cinematographer Pavel Lebeshev and actor Sergei Shakurov. USSR, 1974, 92 mins. DVD | $44.95
Oblomov Nikita Mikhalkov A beautiful adaptation of the famous Ivan Goncharov novel by Nikita (Dark Eyes, Slave of Love) Mikhalkov. Oblomov owns 350 serfs he's never met, and just lies on his back in a St. Petersburg apartment, sleeping, eating, sleeping some more, watching his finances dwindle and whining at his servant for not being sensitive enough. A detailed, beautifully photographed film. In Russian with English subtitles. USSR, 1980, 120 mins. Videocassette | $44.95 DVD | $44.95
Slave of Love Nikita Mikhalkov A self-centered actress is swept up in the turmoil of the 1917 Russian Revolution while shooting a movie on location in the southern Crimea. As the actress falls in love with the crew's cameraman, she is drawn toward the revolutionaries and is transformed from vanity to commitment. DVD includes interviews with director N. Mikhalkov and composer E. Artemyev and Vera featurette. Russian with English subtitles. USSR, 1978, 94 mins. DVD | $44.95
Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano Nikita Mikhalkov A bittersweet, humorous tapestry of human folly and lost dreams, loosely based on Chekhov's play Platonov. The course of the film takes place during a summer day at a decaying summer dacha. The hero had a spoilt love affair and now meets his old girlfriend, married to another. All his passions and frustrations burst out in the open. The film's leisurely atmosphere belies the intensity of the emotional content underneath, with Mikhalkov revealing profound moments of truth. With Alexander Kalyagin, Yelena Solovieva and Yevgey Glushenko. Russian with English subtitles. The DVD is letterboxed and includes interviews, three featurettes, filmographies and a Chekhov biography. USSR, 1977, 100 mins. DVD | $44.95
