The film is loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev (1370-1430), the great 15th-century Russian icon painter and is set during the turbulent period following the Mongol invasion of Russia. Andrej is a young monk, a iconographer, wandering to look for a job around churches and monasteries in Russia. He is convinced that in his life there is only space for art and religion....
Belov is a worker. One night he is assailed in a park by two young men, who get immediately apprehended. Only one of them who can't afford a lawyer is sentenced, while the other gets by with a suspended sentence. Belov, who is upset by this injustice, visits the one who is in prison and ask the permission to take care of him and his re-education. The two are linked by a st...
The film tells the story of orphan boy Ivan, twelve years old. It is the middle of WWII in Russia. He joins the soviet army and does reconnaissance work for the military. He is able to get through small cracks where adults could not, both because of his small physical size and the fact that no one would suspect a boy of doing such work. During one mission, Ivan disappears. I...
Psychologist Kris Kelvin is about to embark on an interstellar journey to a space station orbiting the remote oceanic planet Solaris. He spends his last day on Earth reflecting on his life while walking by a lake near his childhood home where his elderly father still resides. Upon his arrival at Solaris Station, none of the three remaining scientists bother to greet Kelvin, ...
Forced in bed by a sickness, Alexei pounders about his life, mixing past present, reality and imagination. He thinks back to his father who abandoned his mother and this reminds him of his actual situation. The man is living a similar situation: he divorced from his wife Natalija and has a son, Ignat, who refuses to see him. The same actress plays the role of his mother and ...
During a fight with a group of other children, Sasha, a seven years old violinist, is defended by a steamroller driver. Thanks to the friendship with this man, Sasha will learn to face the difficulties in life. Tarkovskij's final diploma work.
In una casa piccolo-borghese, il parrucchiere Golikov e la moglie assumono una donna delle pulizie di origine contadina, Paracha Pitounova. Approfittando della sua timidezza e inesperienza, la sfruttano senza ritegno. I rapporti tra Paracha e la coppia Golikov cambiano radicalmente quando loro e gli altri condomini credono che sia stata eletta nel Consiglio della città...
Il film racconta dell’arresto insensato dell’anziana Diomina Pelagia, una contadina che vive ai margini di una stazione ferroviaria sperduta in mezzo alla Russia sovietica. Le lunghe ed estenuanti peripezie burocratiche per la liberazione della donna sono portate avanti da un gruppo di giovani del piccolo paesino che appartengono al Komsomol, l’unione comun...
Un appassionato omaggio al grande architetto bergamasco. Una carrellata, che e? anche una passeggiata incantevole, tra gli edifici progettati da Giacomo Quarenghi.
Chiamato nel 1779 come architetto alla corte russa, secondo il volere della zarina Caterina, Quarenghi trasformà San Pietroburgo in una moderna capitale neoclassica. Il film è parte del Fondo Cinematografico Nino Zucchelli della GAMeC.
