Rustam Ibragimbekov

Jeff is an American filmmaker with Azerbaijani origins. His obsession is to make a film documenting the fate of his mother and by extension her country, which was split in two at the Yalta conference, divided between Iran and the USSR. He decides to travel to Azerbaijan, a decision that threatens to end his marriage. He goes, and shoots a film with a young woman called Jayran playing his mother. The two form a powerful bond, and he begins to doubt his return to America.

June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step. By chance, she meets a touring French actress and pleads for help... (imdb)

Richard Harris stars as a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new... (imdb)

Nomad (The Warrior) is set is 18th-century Kazakhstan, a vast, pitiless region of austere and terrible beauty, and tells the story of a boy who is destined to one day unite the three warring tribes of the country who have survived and fought for centuries -- against invaders, against formidable enemies and amongst themselves. (The Weinstein Company)

Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. (imdb)

A soldier of the Red Army named Sukhov has been fighting in the Russian Civil War in Russian Asia for many years. Just as he is about to return home to his wife, Sukhov is chosen to guard and protect the harem of a guerilla leader (Abdulla). Abdulla is wanted by the Red Army and left his harem behind because the women hindered him. Sukhov's task proves to be more difficult than he imagined... (imdb)

The shepherd Gombo lives with his wife, three children and grandmother in a tent on the Mongolian steppe. They are pleased with their rustic conditions, until a Russian truck driver, Serguei, gets stuck with his truck nearby. The cultural gap between Gombo and Serguie seems invincible. But maybe they can learn a few things from each other? (imdb)

A young refugee and his mother flee ethnic cleansing in the Georgian region of Abkhazia, leaving his father behind. After arriving in the Georgina capital of Tbilisi, the young boy encounters difficulties with his mother, and begins a lonely journey back to Abkahzia to find his father. (imdb)

Taking place in post-war Russia, this film revisits the characters of Mitya (Oleg Menshikov) and Col. Kotov (Nikita Mikhalkov) who were "killed" in the original film.

The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. Liosha and his wife Tania are walking through the forest when a mysterious figure pops up and asks the couple a question on an esoteric point of Pushkin scholarship. The man then starts to ease himself into the couple's private space. Complementing this story is the festival itself, enactments of Pushkin's works, and emotional debates among the festival-goers over the meaning of his poetry. (allmovie.com)

A driver is traveling from Italy to Russia in a brand new Fiat Tempra, mesmerizing women along the way. He has to use car's full potential and features when he picks up a pregnant hitchhiker in the tough Russian winter. (imdb)