Barcode: 58954306
Call Number: V-RUS 060
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 160 min.
Publication Date: 2007
Language: Russian
Creator: Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
Description: A loose remake of 12 Angry Men (1957), set in a Russian school. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather who took the teenager to live with him in Moscow during the Chechen War in which teenager lost his parents. The jurors: a racist taxi-driver, a suspicious doctor, a vacillating TV producer, a Holocaust survivor, a flamboyant musician, a cemetery manager, and others represent the fragmented society of modern day Russia. A ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58946645
Call Number: V-RUS 041
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 153 min.
Publication Date: c1971
System Requirements: NTSC
Language: Russian
Creator: Directed by Leonid Gaidai
Description: A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobianinov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobianinov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58965134
Call Number: V-RUS 098
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 414 min.
Publication Date: 2004
System Requirements: NTSC All Regions
Language: Russian
Creator: Directed by Tat'yana Lioznova
Description: This series is based on a true story of a Russian spy Colonel Isaev (Stirlitz) in Fascist Germany during 17 days in very end of WWII. Stirlitz has worked his way to the very top of the Fascist hierarchy without being caught. However, his "colleagues", top Hitler's officers Borman, Mueller, Schellenberg are beginning to suspect him. Stirlitz is constantly walking on the edge between his two identities, sending information to Russia while skillfully maintaining the appearance of ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58945059
Call Number: IL-RUS Bey
Material Type: Print-Reference
Language: Russian, English
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58946707
Call Number: IL-RUS Bey
Material Type: Print-Reference
Language: Russian, English
Collection: Language Resource Center
Edition: 2nd ed.
Barcode: 58952932
Call Number: IL-RUS Wad
Material Type: Print-Text/Workbook
Publication Date: c2007
Language: Russian
Creator: Terence Wade
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58957351
Call Number: V-RUS 080
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 105 min.
Publication Date: 2008
System Requirements: NTSC
Language: Russian
Creator: Directed by Helga Landauer
Description: By the time Anna Akhmatova was twenty-five, fate had granted her every conceivable gift—poetic talent, strength of character, beauty, and fame amidst a brilliant generation. She was then inundated with the tragedies of her century: the arrests and executions of her loved ones, starvation, hardships, wars and revolutions, the Soviet regime’s destruction of the culture itself and almost everyone who was part of it, persecution and civic death, isolation, betrayal. Yet Akhmatova emerged ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58957358
Call Number: DV-SPA 445
Material Type: Video -Digital
Publication Date: 2008
Language: Russian
Creator: Directed by Helga Landauer
Description: By the time Anna Akhmatova was twenty-five, fate had granted her every conceivable gift—poetic talent, strength of character, beauty, and fame amidst a brilliant generation. She was then inundated with the tragedies of her century: the arrests and executions of her loved ones, starvation, hardships, wars and revolutions, the Soviet regime’s destruction of the culture itself and almost everyone who was part of it, persecution and civic death, isolation, betrayal. Yet Akhmatova emerged ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58923974
Call Number: IL-RUS Dov
Material Type: Print
Publication Date: c1958
Language: Russian, English
Description: Series: Variation: Department of the Army technical manual ; TM-30-944.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 46600023
Call Number: L-SU22
Material Type: Video -VHS
Time: 28 min.
Language: Russian
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58949561
Call Number: V-RUS 046
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 108 min.
Publication Date: 1938
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Russian
Creator: Directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev
Description: The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
Rating Audience (Video Only): NR
Collection: Language Resource Center
Volume Number: part 1
Barcode: 58950133
Call Number: V-RUS 052A
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 86 min.
Publication Date: c1966
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Russian, French
Creator: Directed by Andrej Tarkovskij
Description: By opinion poll of the members of the European Academy of Film and Television (1995), this motion picture was recognized one of the world’s ten best films (8th place). Its original title – "The Andrei Passion".The historic background – Russia in the 15th century, the princes’ feuds, the internal strife. Though it in no way overshadows the film’s basic philosophical message. The perennial question of "artist versus authority", if the loneliness of a genius and his ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Volume Number: part 2
Barcode: 58950142
Call Number: V-RUS 052B
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 99 min.
Publication Date: c1966
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Russian, French
Creator: Directed by Andrej Tarkovskij
Description: By opinion poll of the members of the European Academy of Film and Television (1995), this motion picture was recognized one of the world’s ten best films (8th place). Its original title – "The Andrei Passion".The historic background – Russia in the 15th century, the princes’ feuds, the internal strife. Though it in no way overshadows the film’s basic philosophical message. The perennial question of "artist versus authority", if the loneliness of a genius and his ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58994396
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 208 min..
Publication Date: c1966
Language: Russian, French
Creator: Directed by Andrej Tarkovskij
Description: "Immediately suppressed by the Soviets in 1966, Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic masterpiece is a sweeping medieval tale of Russia’s greatest icon painter. Too experimental, too frightening, too violent, and too politically complicated to be released officially, ANDREI RUBLEV has existed only in shortened, censored versions until the Criterion Collection created this complete 205-minute director’s cut special edition." - Kanopy
Barcode: 46400117
Call Number: L-SR73
Material Type: Video -VHS
Time: 76 min.
Language: Russian
Description: Comedy based on popular Russian jokes.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Edition: 22nd ed.
Barcode: 20230
Call Number: Russian Reference
Material Type: Print-Reference
Publication Date: c1988
Language: Russian, English
Collection: Language Resource Center
Volume Number: disc 1
Barcode: 58925686
Call Number: V-RUS 013A
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 145 min.
Publication Date: 1967, 2000
System Requirements: NTSC
Language: Russian, English, French, Arabic
Creator: Directed by Alexander Zarkhi
Description: The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. “All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” goes the novel’s opening sentence. The melodrama centers around a tragic story of love and infidelity, the destiny of a woman who irrevocably changes her life for the sake of a passion. Anna Karenina finds it impossible to renounce her feelings for the loved one. She rejects the morals of society and tries to defend her ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Volume Number: disc 2
Barcode: 58925687
Call Number: V-RUS 013B
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 145 min.
Publication Date: 1967, 2000
System Requirements: NTSC
Language: Russian, English, French, Arabic
Creator: Directed by Alexander Zarkhi
Description: The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. “All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” goes the novel’s opening sentence. The melodrama centers around a tragic story of love and infidelity, the destiny of a woman who irrevocably changes her life for the sake of a passion. Anna Karenina finds it impossible to renounce her feelings for the loved one. She rejects the morals of society and tries to defend her ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Volume Number: disc 1
Barcode: 58964581
Call Number: DV-RUS 013A
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 145 min.
Publication Date: 1967, 2000
Language: Russian
Creator: Directed by Alexander Zarkhi
Description: The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. “All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” goes the novel’s opening sentence. The melodrama centers around a tragic story of love and infidelity, the destiny of a woman who irrevocably changes her life for the sake of a passion. Anna Karenina finds it impossible to renounce her feelings for the loved one. She rejects the morals of society and tries to defend her ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 46400225
Call Number: L-SR105
Material Type: Video -VHS
Time: 37 min.
Language: Russian
Description: A portrait of the most beloved of Russian writers, containing contemporary photographs and archival footage of Chekhov's Russia, scenes from the plays performed by the Moscow Art Theatre, and excerpts from his short stories dramatized for the screen.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58963898
Call Number: V-RUS 085
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 116 min.
Publication Date: 2017
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Russian
Creator: Directed by Boris Khlebnikov
Description: "A paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is." - IMDb
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58957599
Call Number: V-RUS 082.01
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 94 min.
Publication Date: 2010
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Russian
Creator: Directed by Marianna Kaat
Description: "The eastern Ukrainian town of Snezhnoje, which prospered during the Soviet era when miners there were spoiled with all kinds of privileges, now lives in poverty." - IMDB
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58957875
Call Number: V-RUS 082.02
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 94 min.
Publication Date: 2010
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Russian
Creator: Directed by Marianna Kaat
Description: "The eastern Ukrainian town of Snezhnoje, which prospered during the Soviet era when miners there were spoiled with all kinds of privileges, now lives in poverty." - IMDB
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58957876
Call Number: DV-RUS 082
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 94 min.
Publication Date: 2010
Language: Russian
Creator: Directed by Marianna Kaat
Description: "The eastern Ukrainian town of Snezhnoje, which prospered during the Soviet era when miners there were spoiled with all kinds of privileges, now lives in poverty." - IMDB
Access link: https://um-licensed-videos.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/t/1_t8529znm
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58957500
Call Number: DV-RUS 078
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 77 min.
Publication Date: 2006
Language: Russian, English AND French
Creator: Directed by Bertrand Normand
Description: "Ballerina documents the lives of five ballerinas from the world renowned Kirov dance company. The film captures the magical masochism of the Russian prima ballerina with five women who eat, drink, bleed, and sweat ballet. They are Russia's pride and joy--the best at what they do. Each one has become ethereal and a star in her own right, fighting and clawing her way to glory in the Kirov company. The discipline is severe, the path strewn with sights amazing and disturbing, and the ...
Collection: Language Resource Center