[Movie] Mother Russia

virh, a Demonoid user as been uploading a nice collection of Russia movies (English subs included).

 Made during the 2nd Generation of the violent left-wing West German group, Red Army Faction, the film speculates on what lay behind increased security and domestic terrorism in Germany. The first third of the movie plays as a comedy of the inside shenanigans of how such a group would behave. The movie's tone turns grim and critical when the group playfully kills a low-level banker in a robbery. Especially controversial was the fictional film's showing cooperation between German terrorists and industrialists

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Art House

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Harry Baer, Hark Bohm, Margit Carstensen, Eddie Constantine, Jürgen Draeger, Raúl Gimenez, Claus Holm, Günther Kaufmann, Udo Kier, Bulle Ogier, Lilo Pempeit, Hanna Schygulla

Duration: 01:44:25.839 (156646 frames)
Video: 608x464 (1.31:1), 25 fps, XviD build 46 ~923 kbps avg, 0.13 bit/pixel
Audio: 44.100 kHz, MPEG Layer 3, 2 ch, ~128.00 kbps avg
Subtitles: Eng, Prt

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Die Dritte Generation / The Third Generation / (1979) Eng.Pr

Hallucinatory breathtakingly beautiful film based on well known science-fiction novel Billion Years Before the End of the World by renowned authors Boris and Andrei Strugatsky. It is hard to say what is more striking in this film - cinematography or the ideas it is about.

Genre: Drama | Art House | Cult

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Writers: Yuri Arabov writer
Pyotr Kadochnikov writer
Arkadi Strugatsky writer
Boris Strugatsky writer
Cast: Aleksei Ananishnov, Eskender Umarov, Irina Sokolova, Vladimir Zamansky, Kirill Dudkin, Aleksei Yankovsky, Viktor Belovolsky, Sergei Krylov
Original Music: Yuri Khanin

Awards: OCIC Award - Honorable Mention, Forum of New Cinema in Berlin International Film Festival 1989
Special Prize of the Jury for the original music in European Film Awards 1988
Best sound for Vladimir Persov in Nika Awards 1988

Duration: 137 min.
Quality: DVDRip
Format: MKV
Video codec: H.264
Audio codec: AAC
Video: 720x464@1024x464 (2.2:1) anamorphic, 25 fps, 1782 kbps avg, 0.213 bit/pixel
Audio: Russian, A_AAC LC SBR, 6ch, 48Hz, ~302 kbps [q0.4]
Subtitles: English

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Dni Zatmeniya (1988) Eng.srt

Genre: Sci-Fi | Art-House | Drama

In the near future, writer Victor Banev (Gregory Gladiy, soulful) gets himself on a UN commission to investigate what's going on in the remote town of... In the near future, writer Victor Banev (Gregory Gladiy, soulful) gets himself on a UN commission to investigate what's going on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created race of brainiac mutants, the "ugly swans" of the title. Banev's tweenie daughter Ira (Rimma Sarkisian, creepy) is enrolled at a school for gifted children there that the mutants have taken over, and are teaching the kids, now able to levitate and yak about philosophy, to despise ordinary humanity.

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Director: Konstantin Lopushansky
Writers: Konstantin Lopushansky screenplay
Vyacheslav Rybakov screenplay
Arkadi Strugatsky novel
Boris Strugatsky novel

Cast: Gregory Hlady, Leonid Mozgovoy, Aleksey Kortnev, Rimma Sarkisyan, Laura Lauri, Aleksei Kortnev

Original Music by Andrey Sigle

Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver 2007 (Jury Award)
Best Original Music Award in Sochi Open Russian Film Festival 2006

Format : Matroska
File size : 1.55 GiB
Duration : 1h 48mn
Language : Russian
Subtitles: English

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Gadkie Lebedi / The Ugly Swans / Гадкие лебеди (

After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of weapons. One robot, his evil circuits destroyed, enters a small town where a robot civil war is taking place. He tries to convince both sides to join forces in search of the weapons, all the while having a hidden agenda, and an affinity for one of the local droids.

love this movie, best of a kind!

Genre: Sci-Fi | Post-Apocalypse | Grindhouse | Cult

Director: Albert Pyun
Writer: Albert Pyun story
Albert Pyun screenplay
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Shannon Whirry, Norbert Weisser, Tina Cote, Anna Katarina, Jill Pierce, Simon Poland, Cynthia Ireland, Jahi J.J. Zuri, Earl White

Duration: 01:23:50
Quality: DVD5
Format: DVD Video
Video codec: MPEG2
Audio codec: AC3
Video: 720x480 NTSC 16:9 Letbox
Audio # 1: Russian (192 Kbps) 48000 Hz
Audio # 2: English (256 Kbps) 48000 Hz

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Omega Doom (1996)

a.k.a. Отель "У погибшего альпиниста"
a.k.a. The Dead Mountaineer Hotel

Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world and strange things are going to happen. Seems that some visitors may be extraterrestrial.

Film is based on the novel by Strugatsky brothers. Brilliant soundtrack from Sven Grünberg.

not the best movie based on strugatskys' novel, but it might be interesting for fanz. timing of the subs should be fixed to approximately 6:500 later

Genre: Crime | Sci-Fi

Director: Grigori Kromanov
Writers: Arkadi Strugatsky (screenplay)
Boris Strugatsky (screenplay)
Cast: Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson, Mikk Mikiver, Karlis Sebris, I. Kriauzaite, Sulev Luik , Tiit Härm, Nijole Ozelyte, Kaarin Raid

Quality: DVDRip
Format: AVI
Video codec: DivX
Audio codec: MP3
Video: 640x480 (1.33:1), 25 fps, DivX Codec 5.x or 6.x ~1171 kbps avg
Audio: Russian, 48 kHz, MPEG Layer 3, 2 ch, ~128.00 kbps avg
Subtitles: English

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''Hukkunud Alpinisti' hotell (1979) Eng.srt

Lopushansky's graduation short. In the winter of 1942 during the Leningrad blockade, the soloist of a philharmonic orchestra rehearses Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony which will be broadcast to England. The music is performed by the emaciated musician forces …

Genre: Short | Drama | War

Director: Konstantin Lopushansky
Writer: Albina Shulgina
Cast: Nikolai Grinko, Lyudmila Arzhannikova, Valentina Smirnova

Awards: Grand Prix in Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films 1980

Quality: VHSRip
Format: AVI
Video codeg: DivX
Audio codec: MPEG Audio
Video: 640x480 (1.33:1); 25 fps; DivX; 1535 kbps; 0.20 bit/pixel
Audio: Russian 48kHz; MPEG Layer 3, 2 ch; 128.00 kbps
Subtitles: English

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Solo / Соло (1980) Eng.srt

I am ashamed to say that I couldn't find a trailer or a clip for this movie. If you ever find one or know of one please be kind enough to post a link in the comments. Thank you.

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...

Genre: Sci-Fi | Drama | Art House

Director: Peter Fleischmann
Writers: Jean-Claude Carrière screenplay
Peter Fleischmann screenplay
Arkadi Strugatsky novel
Boris Strugatsky novel

Original Music by Jürgen Fritz

Cast: Edward Zentara, Hugues Quester, Anne Gautier, Christine Kaufmann, Andrei Boltnev, Pierre Clémenti, Mikhail Gluzsky, Elgudzha Burduli, Birgit Doll, Werner Herzog, Regimantas Adomaitis

Awards: Audience Jury Award; International Fantasy Film Award (Best Special Effects) in Fantasporto, Portugal 1991;
Best Original Soundtrack; Best Screenplay in Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival 1992

Quality: DVDRip
Format: AVI
Video codec: XviD
Audio codec: AC3
Video: 720x432 (1.67:1), 25 fps, XviD MPEG-4 ~1825 kbps avg, 0.23 bit/pixel
Audio #1: Russian 48 kHz, AC3 Dolby Digital, 2/0 (L,R) ch, ~192.00 kbps avg
Audio #2: German 48 kHz, AC3 Dolby Digital, 2/0 (L,R) ch, ~192.00 kbps avg
Subtitles: English

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Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein / Hard to be a god / Т

Письма мертвого человека / Letters from a Dead Man (1986)

Genre: Post-Apocalyptic | Art-House | Sci-Fi | Drama

The world after the nuclear apocalypse. Pale light lits the scenery of total destruction. The surviving humans vegetate in wet cellars under the nuclear winter. But somehow human spirit still sees somewhere the dim light of a new and better future. The next generation starts the walk towards a new life.

One of the best post-apocalyptic movies I've seen, and i've seen a lot.

Director: Konstantin Lopushansky
Writers: Konstantin Lopushansky
Vyacheslav Rybakov
Boris Strugatsky

Cast: Rolan Bykov, Iosif Rykov, Viktor Mikhailov, Alexander Sabinin, Svetlana Smirnova, Nora Gryakalova, Vera Mayorova, Vadim Lobanov, Vatslav Dvorzhetsky

Awards: Grand Prize in Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival, 1986

Quality: DVDRip
Format: AVI
Video codec: XviD
Audio codec: AC3
Video: 720x544 (1.32:1), 25 fps, XviD build 46 ~2143 kbps avg, 0.22 bit/pixel
Audio: 48 kHz, AC3 Dolby Digital, 2/0 (L,R) ch, ~192.00 kbps avg
Language: Russian
Subtitles: Spanish; English

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Pisma myortvogo cheloveka / Letters from a Dead Man (1986) S

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One week of life without social network!

I have book reviews and other writing that needs to be done. Book to read. Things to clean. And other catching up that need to be done. Facebook, and other network, are very distracting and, going for a quick stop can turn into hours. No more should I be drain of energy doing random and meaningless things, at least for the week.

If things go well I might extend this social networks boycott for an other week or and indefinite period of time.

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