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01.1.10 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

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...

CHILDHOOD OF MAXIM GORKY
  The first part of the well-known film trilogy by Mark Donskoy based upon Maxim Gorky’s autobiographical stories (Part Two – “My Apprenticeship”, Part Three – “My Universities”). …The late 19th century. The city of Nizhny Novgorod. Wharves, the Volga accent, songs and people – good and bad, wretched and cruel. That was the atmosphere in which Alyosha Peshkov, the futu...

MY APPRENTICESHIP
  The second part of the celebrated film trilogy by Mark Donskoy based upon Maxim Gorky’s autobiographical works (Part One -“Childhood of Maxim Gorky”, Part Three - “My Universities”). Alyosha Peshkov leaves the house of his grandfather and goes “into the world”, to earn his living. He works as a “boy” for his draughtsman uncle, as a dishwasher on one of the Volga ship...

Battleship "Potemkin"
  The film’s script was originally titled “The Year 1905”, in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the first Russian revolution of 1905-1907. It premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre. The film portrayed a real historical event – the mutiny of the warship “Prince Potemkin Tavrichesky”. S. Eisenstein used to say that his film’s action was one of a drama, but it was structu...

Forgotten Tune For The Flute
  A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an un...

Black Mountain
  The tragic history of the elephant family living in jungle of India, cinematized by the leading master of the special style of films about animals Alexander Zguridi («White Fang», «Robust Fellow», «In Depths of the Sea»). In the international award-winning pictures the director tried to state scientific knowledge of animals in the art plot. It is worthy of note that E...

Ricky-Tikki-Tavi
  Here is the thrilling story of Rikki Tikki Tavi, a fearless young mongoose who finds himself locked in a life-and-death struggle to protect a boy Teddy and his parents from Nag and Nagaina, the two enormous cobras who stalk the gardens outside the familys home in India.

Timur and his team
  A young pioneer named Timur organized in his neighborhood a team which secretly takes care of those who need help and, particularly, of the Red Army men’s families

October
  A film epic about the 1917 Revolution in Petrograd. The Revolution’s headquarters at the Smolny Palace, where the plan for seizing power in Russia was masterminded; the historic salvo from the Aurora battle cruiser, a signal to revolutionary soldier and sailor detachments to begin storming the last stronghold of the Provisional Government, the Winter Palace; Lenin’s h...

Lynx Follows the Path
  New history about the life and adventures of young lynx Kunak, living in the house of the ranger Michailytsch. Kunak has grown and has decided to go to a forest. It has found the girlfriend. In the struggle for a prey Kunak was wounded by the glutton. Michailytsch has rescueed the pet, and the last helped Michailytsch in struggle against poachers.

Pirosmani
  This film is about the great Georgian painter – primitivist Niko Pirosmanashvili (1862-1918). An unknown, self-taught painter roams the streets of a city, painting his pictures. The local people only know that his name is Nikola Pirosmani, that he is a kind and honest person, but nobody takes his painting seriously. To make his living and be able to buy paints, Nikola...

Pilot Pirx
  A major corporation produces human-like robots; however, the public opinion, the media and the trade unions oppose it. A decision is made to conduct an experiment. An experienced pilot is to fly a spaceship to Saturn and launch two artificial satellites from there. The crew will be made up of androids, and the commander must evaluate the work of his unusual team. To a...

Last relic, the
  16th-century Livonia. An old knight dies and bequeaths a casket with a holy relic to his son, Hans. The abbess of a neighborhood monastery wouldn’t mind getting that relic. Her plan – to marry Hans to her niece, Agnes, - is almost successful. But… a noble brigand, Gabriel, in love with Agnes, interferes…

Dead mountaineer hotel, the
  Arriving on an emergency call to a hotel, a police officer found that no crime had been committed, though he noticed some strange things going on there. He decided to leave, but at that point a snow avalanche came down. Soon he discovered a murdered customer’s body. Everyone living in the hotel is under suspicion.

Brillants for the dictatofship of the proletariat
  1921. There is already an organization investigating the misappropriation of valuables – GOKHRAN. It became known to the Chekists that somebody is trafficking gold, silver and diamonds from Russia to London and Paris. Where is the currency underground hiding? What are the channels of communication with foreign countries? It is clear that the search should begin in Rev...