Anatoliy Adoskin Movies
The lies shared by three Russian strangers take on a life of their own in director Ilya Khrzhanovsky's dreamlike journey into the strange heart of modern-day Russia. After entering a local watering hole and relaying a series of elaborate but entirely fabricated tales, a prostitute posing as an advertising executive, a piano tuner claiming to be a genetic engineer, and a butcher posing as a Kremlin insider all go their separate ways. In the hours following their strange conversation, all three will experience a surreal and richly symbolic voyage into a land where the specter of even the most elaborate of lies can somehow fade into reality for one tantalizing instant. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 1985
This classic mystery from Robert Louis Stevenson stars internationally acclaimed Soviet actor Innokenti Smoktunovsky as Dr. Henry Jekyll. With the help of an intravenous drug injection, he is transformed into the criminally inclined Edward Hyde (Alexander Feklistov).When a local politician is murdered, the attorney Utterson (Anatoly Adoskin) belatedly discovers to his horror that Jekyll and Hyde are one in the same. This film adaptation follows the Stevenson classic more closely than many previous attempts. Smoktunovsky gained world-wide praise for his lead role in the famous Russian version of Hamlet. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Alexander Feklistov, (more)
- 1981
Russian revolutionary Lenin spent four years in Paris (1909-1912), and this historical docudrama explores those years with a certain amount of humor. Lenin is shown visiting with friends and bicycling with his wife, while several of his philosophical views and economic and political theories are mouthed by a former colleague who narrates the film and brings the material into the present -- as does footage borrowed from other films as well. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Yuri Kayurov, Valentina Svetlova, (more)
- 1975
This isn't an American International drive-in filler but instead a Russian science fiction effort, originally titled Otroki Vo Vselennoi. The protagonists are a group of clean-cut futuristic Soviet teens, who travel to a distant planet within the constellation Cassiopeia. They discover that the planet was enslaved by robots and they must help a handful of surviving humans to get rid of this totalitarian set-up. Teenagers in Space is a sequel to an earlier sci-fier, Moscow-Cassiopeia. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Misha Yershov, Sasha Grigoryev, (more)
- 1961
With a lively star performance by Nadezhda Rumiantseva as an attractive and independent-minded cook in a logging company, this Russian comedy about love and its foibles is on stronger footing. Locked in by miles of forest and snow, the lumberjacks naturally focus on the pretty cook as a point of interest. Among them is the local lothario who makes a bet with the others that she will give in to his irresistible charms. Once the bet is on, the cook shows she has her own ideas of how a romance should be conducted. Aside from this main story are sub-plots about two unhappy women who manage to resolve the issues that are keeping them down. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Nikolai Rybnikov, (more)
