Beloe solntse pustyni / Белое солнце пустыни = The white sun of the desert

cover image Barcode: 58925693 Call Number: V-RUS 016 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 80 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Russian, English, French Creator: Directed by Vladimir Motyl Description: This “Middle-Eastern”, or rather a Central-Asian action film, about the Red Army fighting the counter-revolutionary robber bands has become not only a cult movie, but also one of the favorites for several generations of viewers. With Russian cosmonauts, it is a tradition to view this film before going to outer space. The film’s success paved the way for a genre of national “Eastern”. A demobbed soldier, Fyodor Sukhov, is making his way through the desert to his home village. The band ... Rating Audience (Video Only): MPAA rating: not rated Collection: Language Resource Center

Belyy tigr = White Tiger

cover image Barcode: 58965461 Call Number: V-RUS 101 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 104 min. System Requirements: Plays on VLC, region 2 Language: Russian Creator: Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov Description: "Great Patriotic War, early 1940s. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction." -IMDb Rating Audience (Video Only): IFCO rating: 15 Collection: Language Resource Center

Berlitz Basic Russian Workbook

cover image Barcode: 58954859 Call Number: IL-RUS Ber Material Type: Print Language: Russian, English Description: Twenty-four fast-paced units, packed with a wealth of challenging and entertaining activities, help reinforce and improve your grammar and vocabulary knowledge, increase proficiency, and build confidence. ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Berlitz Basic Russian Workbook

cover image Barcode: 58958138 Call Number: IL-RUS Ber Material Type: Print Language: Russian, English Description: Twenty-four fast-paced units, packed with a wealth of challenging and entertaining activities, help reinforce and improve your grammar and vocabulary knowledge, increase proficiency, and build confidence. ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Black Book

Barcode: 58995038 Call Number: Contact Staff for Access Material Type: Game -Digital System Requirements: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/black-book Language: Russian, English, Chinese - Simplified, Korean, Japanese Description: “Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures., Single Player, Achievements, Cloud Saves, Controller Support Rating Audience (Video Only): T

Boomer / BMW

cover image Barcode: 58950063 Call Number: V-RUS 049 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 112 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Russian Creator: Directed by Petr Buslov Description: Through the silent Moscow night a Boomer (BMW) speeds away from hot pursuit. A chain of events that included a shoot out has put four friends outside of the law. The fierce car takes the gang further and further away from Moscow into the brutal reality of Russian road. They did not want to kill, they did not want to die, yet it was written in their destiny to go to the very end. Old friend the Boomer will be left to rust under the snow....some roads are better left unchosen. Collection: Language Resource Center

Boris Godunov

cover image Barcode: 58954308 Call Number: V-RUS 061 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 164 min. System Requirements: NTSC DVD Region: Language: Russian Creator: Directed by Vladimir Mirzoev Description: Boris Godunov is the story not only of a troubled leader but of an entire nation, and its history is as eventful as that of Mother Russia herself. In this new production, the legendary director Andrei Konchalovsky presents a personal vision of the opera that takes Mussorgsky's bare and monumental first version as its basis, while adding the final scene from the composer's revision, in which not only the Tsar but the people themselves reveal their fatal flaws. Collection: Language Resource Center

Brat / Брат = Brother

cover image Barcode: 58922194 Call Number: V-RUS 001 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 96 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Russian Creator: Directed by Aleksey Balabanov Description: Danila Bagrov, just demobbed from the army, returns to his quiet, provincial home town. But life is monotonous and boring in this Russian backwoods, so he is heading for faraway Petersburg, to his elder brother who, as he heard, is doing quite well there and might help his darling little brother to start a new life. On his arrival in Petersburg, Danila discovers that his brother is indeed doing well, having mastered the profession of... a contract killer. And Danila decides to follow suit. Collection: Language Resource Center

Bronenosets Potemkin = Battleship Potemkin

cover image Barcode: 58925839 Call Number: V-RUS 025 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 119 min. Language: Russian Creator: Directed by Sergei Eisenstein Description: Based on the unsuccessful 1905 Russian Revolution, Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece "Battleship Potemkin" is often voted one of the ten greatest films ever made, this program includes a powerful musical score by N Kruikov. 1925 (rest. 1930, 1950, 1976). DVD also contains Eisenstein documentary that details his extraordinary life and work (46 minutes). Collection: Language Resource Center

Business And Its Ten Commandments

Barcode: 46400142 Call Number: L-SR88 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 73 min. Language: Russian Creator: Sergio Trapani Description: Shot on location in Russia, this ten-part series provides a rich business and social context for exploration of cultural and linguistic issues. Told through the eyes of an American exchange student who visits Russia shortly after the fall of the U.S.S.R. Collection: Language Resource Center

Chekhov

Barcode: 58946590 Call Number: V-RUS 039 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 53 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Russian Description: Documentary of the life and love, the thoughts and works, the great themes and the little individual lights and the shadows that made Chekhov the man and the artist, this new program is also a superb Russian film. Set in Moscow in 1914--ten years after Chekhov's death, long enough to provide some perspective on his greatness, close enough for memories to have remained fresh-- the program gives us Chekhov through the eyes of those who worked with him and loved him. Collection: Language Resource Center

Cheryomushki = Cherry Town

Barcode: 58965836 Call Number: DV-RUS 103 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 87 min Language: Russian Creator: Directed by Gerbert Rappaport Description: "The title of the film (literally "Cherry Town") refers to new towns or neighborhoods based on middle-class urban development, where every block of houses looks exactly the same as the next. In the Soviet Union of the late 1950s this was thought to be equivalent to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. " -- IMDb Collection: Language Resource Center

Cheryomushki = Cherry Town

cover image Barcode: 58965917 Call Number: V-RUS 103 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 87 min Language: Russian Creator: Directed by Gerbert Rappaport Description: "The title of the film (literally "Cherry Town") refers to new towns or neighborhoods based on middle-class urban development, where every block of houses looks exactly the same as the next. In the Soviet Union of the late 1950s this was thought to be equivalent to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. " -- IMDb Collection: Language Resource Center

Cinema for Russian Conversation

Volume Number: vol. 1 Barcode: 58945650 Call Number: Russian Textbook Material Type: Print-Text/Workbook Language: Russian, English Collection: Language Resource Center

Cinema for Russian Conversation

Volume Number: vol. 2 Barcode: 58945651 Call Number: Russian Textbook Material Type: Print-Text/Workbook Language: Russian, English Collection: Language Resource Center

Cinema for Russian Conversation

Volume Number: vol. 1 Barcode: 58946796 Call Number: Russian Textbook Material Type: Print-Text/Workbook Language: Russian, English Creator: Mara Kashper, Olga Kagan, Yuliya Morozova Collection: Language Resource Center

Cinema for Russian Conversation

Volume Number: vol. 2 Barcode: 58946797 Call Number: Russian Textbook Material Type: Print-Text/Workbook Language: Russian, English Collection: Language Resource Center

Closeness = Теснота

cover image Barcode: 58963966 Call Number: V-RUS 087 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 118 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Russian Creator: Directed by Kantemir Balagov Description: In the late-1990s squalid town of Nalchik, a poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament. Collection: Language Resource Center

Come and See = Idi i smotri

cover image Barcode: 58954309 Call Number: V-RUS 062 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 142 min. Language: Russian Creator: Directed by Elem Klimov Description: During WWII, a Belorussian boy is thrust into the atrocities of war, fighting with a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces. Witnessing scenes of abject terror and surviving horrifying situations, he loses his innocence and then his mind Collection: Language Resource Center

Complete Works of Yuri Norstein

cover image Barcode: 58950062 Call Number: V-RUS 048 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 98 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Russian Description: 25 TH – THE FIRST DAY (1968) co-director with Arkadi Tyurun (10 minutes). Norstein's first film and his personal salute to Russia's leading avant-garde and post revolutionary artists. The name of the film refers to the first day of the October Revolution. He combines poetry of V. Mayakovsky, with motifs of K. Malevich and images from K. Petrov-Vodkin, A. Deneka, V. Tatlin, S. Chehonin, P. Filonov, N. Altman, Yuri Piminov, The score is taken from the 11th and 12th symphonies of ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Contact 1-4

Barcode: 46400136 Call Number: L-SR23A Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 30 min. Language: Russian Description: Program 1: Short episodes on foreign language study, Choosing a Profession, Women in the Workplace, Pocket Money, Housing Problems. ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Contact 5-8

Barcode: 46400137 Call Number: L-SR23B Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 30 min. Language: Russian Description: Program 1: Short episodes on foreign language study, Choosing a Profession, Women in the Workplace, Pocket Money, Housing Problems. ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Conversation With ... (Russian) - Joseph Brodsky

cover image Barcode: 58964042 Call Number: DL-SR62C-VH/N Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 60 min. Language: Russian Description: John Glad interviews Joseph Brodsky Collection: Language Resource Center

Conversation With Aleksandra Ovcharenko

cover image Barcode: 58964029 Call Number: DL-SR62J-VH/N Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 60 min. Language: Russian Description: John Glad interviews Aleksandra Ovcharenko Collection: Language Resource Center

Conversation With Andrei Sedykh

cover image Barcode: 58964026 Call Number: DL-SR62L-VH/N Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 60 min. Language: Russian Description: John Glad interviews Andrei Sedykh Collection: Language Resource Center