Natalya Nikulenko
2021
Телец
Aleksandr Sokurov
Leonid Mozgovoy, Mariya Kuznetsova
Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.
Taurus
Моя бабуся Фані Каплан
Olena Demianenko
Kateryna Molchanova, Ivan Brovin
The film focuses on the little-known love affair of the terrorist Fanny Kaplan with the brother of Vladimir Lenin, Dmitriy Ilyich Ulyanov, and questions whether she really tried to assassinate Lenin in 1918.
My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan
Koma
Nijole Adomenaite, Boris Gorlov
Natalya Nikulenko, Aleksandr Baloerov
While detained in one of the Soviet Gulags (prison work camps), Maria fell in love with and had a child by one of the camp guards. However, in order to save her baby, she was manipulated into a situation where she had to betray her lover. The main attraction of this film is the clear depiction it gives of the harsh conditions of life in these infamous camps.
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