Assassin of the Tsar 1991  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovsky, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yuri Sherstnyov, Anzhela Ptashuk, Viktor Seferov, Olga Antonova, Dariya Majorova, Yevgeniya Kryukova, Alyona Teremizova
Timofeyev (Malcolm McDowell) lies in a Russian mental hospital and believes that he assassinated Tsar Nicholas II and the members of the royal family during the 1918 Russian Revolution over 70 years ago. His doctor (Oleg Yankovsky) becomes obsessed with the story and heads to the place of the assassination to find out the facts as the two relive the event.
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The Man Who Cried 2000 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sally Potter
Cast: Christina Ricci, Johnny Depp, Cate Blanchett, John Turturro, Harry Dean Stanton, Claudia Lander-Duke, Oleg Yankovsky, Hana Maria Pravda, Imogen Claire, Danny Scheinman
This story begins in Russia during 1927 when the father of a young Jewish girl, Fegele (Claudia Lander-Duke), leaves to find a better life for himself in America. Fegele is sent to London where her name is changed to Suzie. Later, a grown-up Suzie (Christina Ricci) joins a cabaret group, travels to Paris, and is taken under the wing of fellow performer Lola (Cate Blanchett). Lola begins an affair with an Italian tenor (John Turturro), while Suzie's interests lie with a Gypsy horse trainer (Johnny Depp). It isn't long before the Nazis take over Paris, and Suzie is again forced to move to safer surroundings.
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Mute Witness 1994  R, 97 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Anthony Waller
Cast: Evan Richards, Fay Ripley, Marina Zudina, Alec Guinness, Oleg Yankovsky, Igor Volkov, Sergei Karlenkov, Nikolai Pastukhov, Stephen Bouser, Valerie Barakhtin
A slasher movie becomes all too real for a mute make-up artist (Marina Sudina) when she gets locked in the studio and becomes witness to a gruesome scene. She is rescued from the studio only to become involved in a plot involving the underworld and the KGB.
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| 1. Assassin of the Tsar (1991)
2. The Man Who Cried (2000)
3. Mute Witness (1994)
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