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05.22.10 RUSCICO presents new DVD collection ACADEMIA.

The first in the world commented DVD edition of classical Russian films in the innovative, unique format of HYPERKINO.

New releases

Gangsters of the ocean
  The crew of the Soviet ship “Berdyansk”, delivering ore to San Francisco, spotted at night a burning American cargo ship. The Russian sailors evacuated the crew, and the rescued Americans stated that, allegedly, they were attacked by a Soviet submarine. Soon the “Berdyansk” was captured by Philippine gangsters. Both the Russians and Americans were brought to a secret...

The Mameluke
  In Arabic, “mameluke” means a white slave, a prisoner. In Egypt, this name was given to prisoners of war who had been sold into slavery from Georgia and other countries of the Caucasus. The action of this drama starts in Georgia in the late 18th century. Two friends are abducted and sold into slavery. One ends up in Egypt, the other - in Venice. Years later, they meet...

The Enigma of Chekhov
  Why was Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” the first play to be staged in Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Why have the representatives of different countries, cultures and civilizations been addressing themselves to the plays of A.P. Chekhov for over one hundred years now? What do they see in them and how do they interpret Chekhov’s texts? Answering these questions ar...

19th-Century Georgian Chronicle
  A poetized chronicle of the events taking place in one of the Georgian villages in the late 19th century, when, to save a forest, the innumerous intelligentsia could rally the people and oppose the industrialists…

The White Rose of Immortality
  Two lovers – a young shepherd, Mzechabuka, and a peasant girl, Teona, - have endured all the trials falling to their lot and see the happy time when they can join their lives together.

Guest from the Future
  Alice Seleznyova, a girl from the future, finds herself in our time (1984). Following her, the space pirates Krys and Joker Y get here, too, with most nasty pirate’s intentions. Coming to her help is an ordinary boy, Kolya, as well as his friends from 6th ‘C’ grade.

The Great Consoler (Kinoshkola)
  The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what role a creative person played in society.

Moscow – Cassiopeia + Teens in Universe
  MOSCOW – CASSIOPEIA, 1973 An alarming radio signal of intelligent creatures reaches the Earth from the depths of the Universe. The project suggested by the young inventor Vitya Sereda should enable the earth’s starship to reach the planet. However, the flight will last 27 years, that’s why the spaceship’s crew is being formed up of schoolchildren. Everything...

The Great Consoler (Academia)
  The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what role a creative person played in society

The Colour of Pomegranates
  This film is an attempt to depict the spiritual world of eighteen-century Armenian poet Sayat Nova, the story of his love, his relationship with religion, temporal power and people. “The Colour of Pomegranates” is a unique cultural phenomenon. Instead of an “absorbing” story line, Paradzhanov offered a series of tableaux vivant masterpieces. The film’s crying indep...

Happiness (Academia)
  This philosophical parable, filmed in the style of Russian lubok, is one of the unknown cinematic masterpieces. A poor peasant, Khmyr, sets out on a wandering in search of happiness. At first, he is lucky: he finds a purse with money, buys a horse and reaps a big harvest in the fall. But the caricature trio – a wealthy peasant, a landowner and a clergyman – take from...

October (Academia)
  “To create a heroic style, Eisenstein had to go through the montage of eccentric attractions. A parody streak, strong in Eisenstein’s nature, sounds in his first cinematic work - The Strike. It is more subdued in The Battleship Potemkin, but probably will be developed by Eisenstein the engineer in the construction of his future films because gaiety is at the base of t...

The Strike (Academia)
  Sergey Eisenstein’s first full-length feature. Unrest starts at a factory. The last straw was the suicide of a worker accused of stealing a micrometer. An inevitable fine and a many-month payment of the debt for the lost instrument would have ended in his death from hunger anyway. The dead man’s comrades go on strike. The resentful crowd’s actions are directed by t...

Engineer Prite`s Project (Academia)
  1918 – Lev Kuleshov’s directorial debut. This work is extremely important not only for Russian cinema; it became a landmark in the history of the world’s cinematograph. For the first time a specific method of montage had been used in this film, which came to be known later as “Soviet montage”. Despite the fact that Kuleshov’s films had preceded many discoveries of Ver...

MY UNIVERSITIES
  The trilogy based upon Maxim Gorky’s autobiographical works – “Childhood of Maxim Gorky”, “My Apprenticeship”, “My Universities”, had written down Donskoy’s name in the history of world cinema. The original human characters, the colorful genre scenes, the shrewd observations of life… By these films, the Italian neorealists were learning from the director a poetical ap...