Alexei Kravchenko Movies
- 2008
A macho truck driver with a taste for vodka and casual sex attempts to connect with the daughter he never knew in director Vladimir Kott's post-perestroika drama. By day Fedor Mukhin (Aleksei Kravchenko) spends long hours on the road, and by night he likes to relax with a bottle and a beautiful woman. Fedor's carefree life takes an unexpected turn, however, when he receives a letter from a former fling revealing that he may have a sixteen year old daughter who's currently being threatened with jail in a dismal Russian town. That girl is Vera (Alexandra Tyuftey), an incorrigible, headstrong delinquent with a dangerous wild streak. But there's more to Vera than initial appearances may suggest, because in addition to being a formidable force in the boxing ring, she shows a tender side by protecting a younger boy from menacing schoolyard bullies. Their relationship deepening, Fedor does everything possible to win Vera's love - or at the very least, her respect. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alexei Kravchenko, Alexandra Tyuftey, (more)
- 2002
Zvezda (The Star) takes place in the summer of 1944, when Red Army troops were fighting on the Polish border in hopes of halting Hitler's advancing forces. In a desperate attempt to gain intelligence on a massive tank attack the Germans are allegedly orchestrating, a team of scouts with the radio code name "Star" is haphazardly put together from the ranks of the surviving soldiers. Though a series of encounters with the enemy quickly follows, the rag-tag group of men are able to broadcast the details of future enemy tactics and troop movements even as they are annihilated in a brutal battle with German troops. The Russian soldiers are given posthumous medals for bravery in 1964. Zvezda is directed by Nikolai Lebedev, who greatly admires Steven Spielberg's work, and admittedly tried to emulate many of the American director's techniques used in Saving Private Ryan. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
- Starring:
- Igor Petrenko, Artem Semakin, (more)
- 2000
An Israeli documentary about the effect of maternal abuse and the bond of sisterhood, Fortuna takes its title from the name of the imposing and uncaring mother of the six Dvash sisters, who have survived a good deal of childhood trauma at the hands of their mother. Over the years the sisters have participated in yearly reunions, relying on one another for emotional support and strength. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
- Starring:
- Vakhtang Kikabidze, Alexei Kravchenko, (more)
- 1999
- NR
A family finds itself torn between loyalty to their brother and fear of their domineering mother in this drama from Russia. Four brothers living in different parts of Russia all receive messages asking them to come home to Moscow as soon as possible. A miner in the Ukraine, a sharpshooter with the Army in Tajikistan, a hustler living in Vladivostock, and a jobless man with a string of illegitimate children living in the tundra, the siblings have an unhappy history. As children, their mother organized the family into a music group called "The Happy Family"; they enjoyed brief success, but their fortunes soon faded. In time, Mother (Nonna Mordukova) attempted to hijack a jet to the United States; after a violent altercation with the police, the entire family ended up behind bars, and Father was killed by police (while his sons looked on) when he tried to bribe his way out of the prison camp. A fifth brother, Lenchik (Oleg Menshikov), was wounded while behind bars, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, and he's currently confined to a mental institution. Mother has now gathered her other sons together, hoping that as a group they can rescue Lenchik from the institution. Screenwriter Arif Aliev loosely based this story on actual events. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Nonna Mordyukova, Oleg Menshikov, (more)
A rare look at World War II from the Soviet side, Come and See is based on the real-life experiences of Ales Adamovich, who fought with Russian partisans in Belarus in 1943, when the Nazis systematically torched over 600 villages and slaughtered their inhabitants. Adamovich and director Elem Klimov co-authored the screenplay, which shows the horrors through the eyes of a 13-year-old peasant boy named Florya (Alexei Kravchenko). Over his single mother's protests, he joins the partisans, but they leave him behind in their camp when they set off to fight the Germans. Glascha (Olga Mironova), a lovely young girl, befriends him, but the two are caught in the midst of an air raid which leaves Florya nearly deaf. Now utterly frightened, Florya and Glascha return to his village to find it in ruins, and, in one of the film's many harrowing scenes, they wade through a swamp to locate the survivors. Now committed to seek vengeance for the death of his mother and neighbors, Florya returns to the front, but finds himself in a village that's right in the path of the Nazi firestorm. A band of partisans arrive too late to save the village but in time to capture and mete out justice to several of the Nazi officers. Awarded the Grand Prix at the 1985 Moscow Film Festival, Come and See is notable as an honest and unflinching portrait of one of the darker chapters among many in the history of the World War II. ~ Tom Wiener, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, (more)
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