Russian Film

Listed below are five Russian films, ranging from Oscar nominees to a Disney fairytale, that took 2017 by storm, both nationally and, in some cases, internationally. The verdict? Unmissable, all of them.
Loveless, by Andrei Zvyagintsev
The film, which has been shortlisted for the 2018 Golden Globes and submitted as Russia’s entry for next year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Picture, not to mention that it picked up the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, could...

Coleridge said that seeing the fiery Edmund Kean act was “like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning”. Watching Sergei Eisenstein’s classic silent film October is like watching the Russian revolution the same way. It’s surreally lit up by stark...

The virtues of independent, international film-making were celebrated on Saturday night at a starry British Film Institute awards evening at the Banqueting House in Whitehall.
Winners included the makers of the Russian language film Loveless, directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev and called a masterpiece by the Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw earlier this year....

Russian Oscar committee decided to suggest this movie for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Each of Zvyagintsev's movies is a big event in the cinematic world, usually marked by coveted awards. Loveless has won the Jury Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and now Russia selected it to be the entry for the competition of the 90th Academy...