Nikolai Shatokhin Movies
People with a passion for horses are observed in this Russian film by filmmaker Kira Muratova. The film has no real plot. Instead it zeros in on several scenes in which people talk about or hang out around horses. In the first segment, set on the lawn of a seaside hospital, an healing, wheelchair bound jockey, a nurse and an eccentric circus performer, Viola, discuss the difference between racehorses and circus horses. Another scene is set at a racetrack where gunshots are heard in the background. Fashion models are doing a layout amongst the horses. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Svetlana Kolenda, Renata Litvinova, (more)
- 1992
In this affectionate, leisurely paced comedy, an Odessa policeman is out walking his beat when he discovers an adorable infant abandoned in a cabbage patch. He does his duty and takes the baby to an orphanage, but later he and his wife, who have an unusually affectionate and cozy relationship, decide to try and adopt the little one. What they must go through to accomplish that goal is anything but straightforward. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Nikolai Shatokhin, Irina Kovalenko, (more)
- 1988
Varya (Lubov Krasavina) is a pregnant woman of some spirit and imagination who is trapped in a rural existence in modern Russia. Even with the reforms under Gorbachev, life in the farmlands is basically unchanged. Varya's husband is not very bright, and her mother-in-law is predictably aggressive and difficult. Not only that, but even if she relished her husband's company (she doesn't) she shares their tiny cottage not only with her mother in law but with her husband's brother. The only escape she finds is in her imagination which also provides her with horrifying nightmares to contemplate. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lyubov Krasavina, Nikolai Shatokhin, (more)
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