Yuriy Arabov Movies

A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.

A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to...

A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.

It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange...

Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.

A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.

A person with amnesia writes down his memories in an attempt to reconstruct his life history.

Volodya, who lives with his mother in the apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, gets a pre-revolutionary book on magic rituals of Africa....

In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics.

They don't really know each other. She lives in penury. He holds a pawnshop. Poverty makes her marry him, despite she doesn't love him and even...

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.

Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some...

Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and...

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall:...

The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it...

A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.

The film is based on the life of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of the most tragic and greatest poets of the 20th century. The authors follow her in Russia,...

The film is a parable about fear; it is a story about the attitudes of a mother and daughter deprived of love, who temporarily find mutual...

A famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.

This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs...