Vladimir Dolinsky Movies
- 2006
Vodka, women, and wandering dreams define director Slava Ross black comedy set in a children's theater and centering on the lives of drunken actors who take the stage each day to perform as pigs, goats, and plants. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alexander Bashirov, Alexei Maklakov, (more)
- 1996
This Russian film is an updated version of Bertold Brecht's stage play. Brecht's plays always highlight the intersection between politics and life as it is lived, and his play, The Career of Arturo Ui is no exception. The story is about Arturo Ui (Aleksandr Filipenko) and his progress from being a penniless unknown to becoming someone with totalitarian power. The model for Arturo was originally Hitler, but in this film parallels are also drawn to the rise of Stalin, and to the new socialists seeking power in post-Soviet Russia. Slogans from Russian political campaigns are used for this purpose to chilling effect. Often, as in this play, Brecht collaborated with Kurt Weill to bring music to his stylized dramas, and as a result many of his plays occupy an ill-defined territory somewhere between classical Greek drama and the contemporary stage musical. Here, that music is supplemented by contemporary Russian folk music. The film retains many stage values; most actors appear in very stylized makeup, and the film's settings are very limited and contained. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alexander Filippenko, Vyacheslav Nevinny, (more)
- 1990
In this romantic comedy, on the way to a birthday party with their families, a man and his girlfriend are driving in the countryside. When the girl takes a curve a little too fast, their car winds up in a lake. Undaunted, the couple gets on a train but bickers about the incident the whole way. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Vitaliy Solomin, Yelena Safonova, (more)
- 1978
Adapted from a fairy tale by Yevgeny Shvarts, this story is about a magician (Oleg Yankovsky) who is concerned because his wife (Irina Kupchenko) has become rather bored -- and he decides to do something about it. He goes out and finds a bear, and with some "abracadabra," he changes the bear into a handsome young man (Alexander Abdulov). Then he says to his wife that "It has been foretold that a bear (in the guise of a handsome young man) will meet a princess and fall in love with her -- but as soon as they have their first kiss, it will change him permanently back into his bear form." After which he tells her that the king (Yevgeny Leonov), his daughter the princess (Yevgeniya Simonova), and their court will come to the magician's house and meet the young-man-cum "bear." Sure enough, the entire troupe shows up, and the princess falls in love with the man/bear -- who knows the truth about the effect of only one kiss with the princess. Desperate to save her feelings, he leaves rather than kiss her. The princess is disheartened at his behavior and leaves too -- but the pair is destined to meet again in spite of the machinations of the Prime Minister (Andrei Mironov) who wants to marry the princess himself. Now the magician needs a real miracle to bring everything to a desired happy ending. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Oleg Yankovsky, Irina Kupchenko, (more)
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