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 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Alba) / Monday 01.October, 20:30 Uhr Trailer | Russland 2005, Director: Ilya Khrjanovsky, Screenplay: Vladimir Sorokin, Producer: Yelena Yatsura, Actors: Shavkat Abdusalamov, Anatoli Adoskin, Aleksei Khvostenko, Andrei Kudriashov, Farbe A deserted Russian village and an all-night bar in the big city. A doll with a face molded from bread and genitals made of folded rags. Could this medieval shamanism create clones? These worlds are so disparate that the director Ilya Khrzhanovsky broke the taboos, rules and norms of the accepted cinematographic language and used two different editing rhythms, and two divergent concepts for both sound and visuals. However, closer examination reveals that these two worlds are but clones of each other, only duplicated in reverse reflections, like positive and negative film. Like the mirror and that which lays beyond. |
Izgnanie / The Banishment
 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Alba) / Friday 05.October, 19:30 Uhr Trailer | Russland 2007, Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev, Producer: Dmitri Lesnevsky, Actors: Konstantin Lavronenko, Aleksandr Baluyev, Maxim Shibaev, Maria Bonnevie, Farbe Alex moves from the city taking his wife Vera and his two children back to his father’s house in the countryside. There, in the middle of a paradisiacal landscape and in the security of his childhood memories, he hopes peace of mind will return to his brother who was left by his wife and children. However, as Vera reveals a secret to Alex, which leads to a succession of misunderstandings and recriminations, the house becomes a foreboding place of banishment. |
Mars
 Online Ticketkauf | Russland 2004, Director: Anna Melikian, Farbe On the run from himself and his past the famous and ‘invincible’ boxer Boris ends up in Mars, a small town on the island of Krim and also the name of the factory there that supplied the whole country with soft toys and provided jobs for most of its residents during the days of the Soviet Union. The combat sportsman from Moscow will spend one day in this small town – and this day will bring about a new turn in the life of the librarian Greta and her admirer Grigorij. In her feature film debut the young director Anna Melikian combines a bitter-sweet love triangle with references to the realities of today’s Russia. |
Mechenosets / The Sword Bearer
 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Alba) / Saturday 29.September, 20:30 Uhr | Russland 2006, Director: Filipp Yankovsky, Screenplay: Konstantin Syngayevsky, Script: Yevgeni Danilenko, Producer: Sergei Selyanov, Actors: Artyom Tkachenko, Chulpan Khamatova, Leonid Gromov, Aleksei Zharkov, Farbe Both the law enforcement officers and bandits are in hot pursuit of Sasha. But nobody knows he is in possession of special powers that enable him to destroy anything in his path. His encounter with Katya, who falls in love with him and shows no fear of his supernatural abilities, changes Sasha completely. Will he be able to safeguard something as fragile as love in such a brutal environment? In this fascinating mixture of mystery elements and thriller, Philipp Yankovsky tells the story of a society that turns a man into a monster and, as is the case with this man, how love gains the upper hand. |
Piter FM
 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Alba) / Tuesday 02.October, 20:30 Uhr | Russland 2006, Director: Oksana Bychkova, Screenplay: Oksana Bychkova, Nana Grinshtein, Producer: Yelena Glikman, Aleksandr Rodnyansky, Igor Tolstunov, Camera: Ivan Gudkov, Actors: Yekaterina Fedulova, Yevgeni Tsyganov, Aleksei Barabash, Irina Rakhmanova, Farbe Masha, a DJ with a popular radio station and Maxim, a young architect, initially appear to have nothing in common. Masha is in the middle of her wedding preparations in lieu of her marriage to an old school friend; Maxim has just won an international architecture competition and will shortly take up an offer of employment in Germany. Yet neither Masha nor Maxim is sure that they really want what they are about to do. Chance allows their paths to cross. A romantic adolescent comedy about the power of destiny and its consequences. |
Prostie vechi / Simple Things
 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Alba) / Wednesday 03.October, 20:30 Uhr | Russland 2007, Director: Aleksei Popogrebsky, Screenplay: Aleksei Popogrebsky, Producer: Roman Borisevich, Actors: Sergei Puskepalis, Leonid Bronevoy, Svetlana Kamynina, Dinara Kutuyeva, Farbe Sergej Maslov, an anaesthesiologist from St. Petersburg, likes to take things easy – until life sets him a few challenges: His girlfriend causes no end of trouble, his daughter runs away from home and his wife announces she is pregnant. In addition to this, a private patient makes him an offer he would do better to refuse, or better not? It takes Maslov some time until he understands what the “uneasy lightness of being” actually means. At the centre of this optimistic story we find an ordinary guy with an inability to adapt to difficult situations. The great Sergej Puskepalis has received multiple awards for his convincing interpretation of Maslov in Alexey Popgrebsky’s second film. |
Puteshestvie s domashnimi zhivotnymi / Travelling With Pets
 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Alba) / Friday 28.September, 20:30 Uhr | Russland 2007, Director: Vera Storozheva, Screenplay: Arkadi Krasilshchikov, Producer: Sabina Yremeyeva, Actors: Dmitri Dyuzhev, Kseniya Kutepova, Anna Mikhalkova, Mikhail Yefremov, Farbe In an isolated house in the countryside, Natalya lives a hard life at the side of her brutal husband. Following his death, she seizes the chance to shake off her preconceptions and old customs and sets off in search of her true self. This new life is directed by nature and by her encounter with the truck driver Sergej, through whom she discovers love. With this frankly told story, Vera Storozheva presents a parable: whatever one comes up against, there will always be the possibility to tend towards freedom and happiness. |
Svobodnoe Plavanie / Free Floating
 Online TicketkaufArthouse (Alba) / Sunday 30.September, 20:30 Uhr | Russland 2006, Director: Boris Khlebnikov, Screenplay: Boris Khlebnikov, Producer: Roman Borisevich, Camera: Shandor Berkeshi, Actors: Boris Petrov, Evgenii Sytyi, Darya Yakamasova, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Farbe Leonid, a young man from a typical Russian provincial town, is at the centre of this humorous melodrama. As a result of circumstances the children grow up there with little prospects as everything is practically preordained. One day the town’s factory closes down and Leonid becomes disoriented. For the first time in his life he is forced to make a decision and to think seriously about his future. |
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