For financial reasons, the Russian film industry did not produce many films until recent years, but even before the revival of the film industry some interesting films were made for television and released on DVD, some even with English subtitles. These days the better series are released immediately on DVD.
There was a very good WWII spy thriller series released on DVD - Krasnaya Kapella - with English subtitles (2004). Azazel was a series about turn of 19th-20th century Russian detective Erast Fandorin created by novelist Boris Akunin. There were two later very good Fandorin films, Turetsky Gambit(2005) that is set during the Russo-Turkish war, and Statskiy Sovietnik (2005) with Oleg Menshekov and Nikita Mikhailkov. The recent Master and Margarita serialization also is out on DVD - very well done. There are also the recent mystic thrillers Nochnoi Dozor and Dnevnoi Dozor, both released in the west I think. For kids, my son really likes the DVD animations Smeshariki - there must be a dozen or so out now. CB _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/
