Tag: Russian
You I Love
An advertising executive has been happily dating a beautiful and famous newscaster and they have just celebrated their first anniversary in their fashionable Moscow home. Then one evening on the way home he runs down an itinerant Mongolian farm laborer who he takes back to his apartment and suddenly has mad passionate sex. The girlfriend is…
ELENA
In Andre Zvyagintsev’s rather somber movie set in modern-day Moscow its painfully clear that despite all its fine principles post Soviet Russia is simply just another society where the ‘have’ and the ‘have not’s’ bitterly resent each other. The wealthy have greatly profited from the new capitalism whilst the poor are finding it difficult to…
Anton Checkhov’s The Duel
The protagonist in this small drama is Laversky, who allegedly is a high up civil servant but never seems to do a stroke of work and whiles his days away just gambling a moment and drinking. He’s shacked up with his rather beautiful mistress in a seaside resort but the she gets word that her husband…
