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Yuri Nikolaevich Arabov (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Арабов) (born 25 October 1954) is a Russian screenwriter, writer, poet and educator. He is known for his long-lasting collaboration with Alexander Sokurov. He is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1999).
Total trailers found: 36
20 February 1997
A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.
23 January 2009
A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
05 September 1990
Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of the operation on the stable boy’s clubfoot.
06 June 2004
The film is dedicated to the little-known period of life of the great Russian composer P.I. Tchaikovsky.
12 August 2008
Before leaving Russia and moving to Western Europe, famous opera singer Lyuba travels to her hometown to say goodbye and show her teenage son around.
22 March 1979
The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.
08 September 2011
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
11 September 1990
A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
05 October 2007
"The fate of a person can not only be explained, but also predicted, using the same laws according to which a screenplay is built," says Yuri Arabov, a well–known Russian screenwriter, winner of the Cannes Film Festival.
17 February 1990
Volodya, who lives with his mother in the apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, gets a pre-revolutionary book on magic rituals of Africa.
01 May 1990
Martha, a young teacher, suffers from persecution mania. The phantom of an organization like the KGB arises in her mind and gradually materializes.
13 January 2012
It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs.
24 April 2014
The film is based on the life of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of the most tragic and greatest poets of the 20th century.
01 February 1999
In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics.
01 April 2006
Russian TV miniseries of Boris Pasternak's classic novel.
24 February 2001
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.
05 September 1987
Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom are scarred by the trauma of the Russian Empire of yesteryear.
17 February 2005
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.
08 September 2016
Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.
01 December 1988
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia.
01 February 1987
The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it reflects the play which inspired it, the ferociously antiwar Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw.
10 June 1993
A 1993 Russian language drama film directed by Andrei Dobrovolsky, starring Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandra Butorina and Aleksandr Adabashyan.
07 January 1991
Biopic devoted to the history of the life of Soviet biologist, academician Nikolai Vavilov. His scientific and personal confrontation with Trofim Lysenko, the subsequent arrest and death of the scientist in prison.
31 March 2016
A story of a young girl Claudia who works as a security guard on a slowly dying metal plant.
01 December 1988
A famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
17 September 2015
They don't really know each other. She lives in penury. He holds a pawnshop. Poverty makes her marry him, despite she doesn't love him and even despises.
11 March 2021
An exploration of 20th century Russia, following the fusing of the Party and the state after the Russian Civil War, which opened the doors to corruption, resulting in the exiling of the left and right opposition.
09 October 2009
The film is based on real events that took place in Samara in 1956 and known as the "Standing Zoe." During the holiday girl, without waiting her betrothed, removes the icon from the wall and Nicholas begins to dance with her, but suddenly freezes in place.
13 September 1992
Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and the ghost's present-day guardian.
17 September 2015
Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'.
24 October 2019
The film is a parable about fear; it is a story about the attitudes of a mother and daughter deprived of love, who temporarily find mutual understanding, rallied by fear before the story invented by the mother about a cannibalistic wolf.
20 November 2025
A person with amnesia writes down his memories in an attempt to reconstruct his life history.
01 November 1990
Having learned that the empty monastery is facing a thorough reconstruction, the architect decides to capture it alone and prepare design documentation for the restoration of this monument of history and culture.
01 January 2003
Film by Andrey Khrzhanovsky based on the works of Joseph Brodsky.
05 December 2024
Albania in the 1960s, the city of Gjirokastra. Katya, a graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University, marries an Albanian, a young historian whom she met in Moscow.
