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Synopses
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INSANITY We leave in a
crazy and cruel world. At all
times people who challenged
barbarism, ignorance and
prejudices, were always taken as
social misfits. Our character,
Arthur, was not an exception to
this rule. A professional
sportsman and philosopher, he
thought he could awake and
remake the world. “Animal
Liberation is Human Liberation”
- this wording was not just a
slogan for him, it became his
life aim. But then he didn’t
know what kind of butchery he
would be involved with. His
fight against lawlessness of
bureaucracy and militia proved
to be even harder and rightless
than his most fierce combats on
the athletic mat. Being put to a
special closed department of
Mental hospital vivarium,
certified as insane, having lost
his beloved wife and animal
friends, Arthur didn’t give up,
and the things, which were close
to kill him, but failed to –
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WHEN GODS SLEEP The racetrack
with its horses, races, stakes,
and sweepstakes has always been
an intriguing, exciting and
fantastical place. By no means
anybody knows what is hidden
behind the racetrack walls. A
few know that almost all
racetrack horses are eaten as
food by those who have been
applauding them so passionately
during their life. “When Gods
Sleep” reveals to the audience
the secrets of racetrack life
making them consider and
evaluate this ‘mysterious’
world, having so terrible and
cruel things committed in it, in
a different light.
Razhev, the master of the
racetrack, lays two million
dollars against his favorite and
best horse Kholstomer, in fact
condemning him to death since
winner is to be skinned
according to the agreement. That
condition is a whim of the
Muscovites, the representatives
of the other conflicting party
taking this stake as a
gambling. For them it is a game
of life that let them have their
crusted wild passions stirred
up. Ruslan, the trainer of
Kholstomer, doesn’t want to
accept the races rules so he
dies on his attempt to save the
horse. The life of the lead
character Lena, who has an
idealistic vision of world and
tries to change something in it
and to reduce horses suffering,
is being ruined too. Not being
able to stand her lover Ruslan’s
death, the unfair death of her
horse friend, as well as to find
the way out and the meaning of
life, she commits suicide.
Razhev, the master of the
racetrack and the reason of all
troubles, keeps his usual way of
living. But soon his life hangs
by a thread. The man groom of
the racetrack and the L. Tolstoy
follower – Nazarich revolts not
willing to accept such rules
anymore. And now it is a flip of
a coin that will decide who is
going to die and to win – the
Good or the Evil.
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CRUCIFIED
Earth-shattering
project of XXI century
Forbidden Tolstoy. Unknown Jesus.
For several thousand years the
religious opposition between
church and people and folk has been
separated and pushed all mankind.
A rebellious philosopher in its
novel gives life to many
disgraced and forbidden writers
and rebels, who during the whole
film and history of the mankind
have been fighting with
religious prejudice and throw
light upon an unknown truth,
giving publicity to their
philosophical ideas about
different primeval issues of
objective reality.
In the film through the vision
of modern philosopher mystery
becomes reality, and in the
cellars of inquisition Leo
Tolstoy (who was cursed) and
unknown Jesus face each other; where due to
intersection of epochs audience
will be involved in the
whirlpool of fights, adventures,
love and, certainly, rebellious
and heretical thoughts, as well
as action of the heroes – Volter,
Rasputin, Seneca and others.
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BLOODY FLOWERS
Screen version of “The Madness
of John Harned”
by Jack London
The film is about tragic fortune
of a famous Ukrainian sportsman
Victor who fell in love with a
Spanish girl Maria and who
became a witness and a
participant of bloody events
during bullfighting. He had
never been to such a barbarian
spectacle. The sportsman who
used to follow the rules of
dignity and justice was
impressed and shocked by the
ignorance and wildness of the
crowd, applauding in frenzy and
enjoying the suffering and blood
of poor bulls and horses. His
beloved lady and her Spanish
friends made a laughing-stock of
him with his sentimental
feelings and became to tease him
because John was not indifferent
to the blood on the arena.
At this moment his love vanished
and contrary to the whole
stadium he started to support
the bulls! Thus he became a
black ship in the audience. He
was the only one to jump up
applauding the bulls, when
everybody was silent and to the
contrary, when everybody was in
triumph Victor froze. The crowd
could not overlook Victor’s
challenge! And it became obvious,
that real beasts were not bulls
but people who burst their anger
on the sportsman. He was hard to
kill. More men were killed that
day because of Victor than were
ever killed because of bull
horns for the last 50 years…
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