Valeriy Todorovskiy: Lyubov (Любовь) (1992) + Podmoskovnye vechera (Подмосковные вечера) (1994)

Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy
Writer: Valeriy Todorovskiy
Russia - 1992 - color
Cast: Yevgeny Mironov, Natalya Petrova, Dmitriy Maryanov, Tatyana Skorokhodova

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Two Moscow students are mostly concerned with scoring with women but their lives change radically when one of them falls for a Jewish girl whose family is being persecuted by anonymous anti-Semites and is preparing to emigrate to Israel. A film about a romance between a Russian boy and a Jewish girl with anti-Semitism on the rise in Russia and a growing neo-fascist movement.

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Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy
Writers: Stanislav Govorukhin, François Guérif
Russia - 1994 - color
Cast: Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Vladimir Mashkov, Aleksandr Feklistov, Alisa Freyndlikh, Natalya Shchukina, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Avangard Leontev

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A wife finds her life transformed after a torrid affair in this story of murder. Katia is a rather dull young woman who types manuscripts for Irina, her husband's mother and successful writer of romance novels. Katia's husband is a real momma's boy. They go to Irina's summer house to work. There Katia encounters the intense and sexy Serguei who creates passionate longings with in her. Overcome she and Serguei engage in vigorous love-making upon a windowsill where Irina sees them. Irina has a weak heart. Quiet Katia, having rediscovered the joys of sex, changes and becomes more assertive and flighty. Serguei quickly loses interest in her. Strange and deadly things begin happening at the summer house which calls the attention of a judge who is extremely familiar with Irina's writing.

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