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This inspiring historical drama is about the 1825 uprising in Russia, which pitted young military officers who opposed the system of serfdom against the newly ascended Czar Nicholas I. Refusing to swear allegiance to him and the autocracy he represented, they eschewed the comfort they were accustomed to and pursued the liberal values of democracy. Their heroic revolution was crushed, however, and the leaders were either executed or sent to Siberian labor camps. The wives of these valiant soldiers abandoned their luxurious lifestyles to follow their husbands, choosing against the aristocracy in favor of a life that put their bodies, minds, and spirits to the test. This film is a chronicle of these women's travails and a testament to their merit.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1- RussianAdditional Release Material: TrailersText and Photo Gallery: Filmographies Photo Album
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In this slow yet charming Iranian film from 2001, Reza (Hamid Jebelli) is a well-meaning young man who suffers from mental problems. Whiling away the hours working in a bridal shop, Reza finds it difficult to make friends in the human world, so he divides his time between talking to the mannequins in the shop and communicating with his dead mother, whom he visits every day in the local cemetery. But Reza`s life is irrevocably changed when he falls hopelessly in love with a bride-to-be who visits the shop, and this heartwarming tale ends with a gently satisfying climax.
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Sergei Eisenstein's first film is, without doubt, one of the most astonishing debuts in film history. His introduction of dialectical montage--which included then-innovative shock cuts to such violent images as a raised club, a bloody face, and a bull's throat being cut--both disturbed and galvanized contemporary audiences. Combined with the expressionistic compositional style Eisenstein had absorbed from French and German films, it established its director as a new force in world cinema. Commissioned by the government to commemorate the first, failed Bolshevik revolution, the film covers a 1912 strike at a metalworks factory whose workers have been bullied and humiliated by the plant management. When a fired worker commits suicide, the workers organize a peaceful strike. But the plant bosses make use of agents provocateurs and eventually bring in the czar's troops, who crack down on the strikers with maximum brutality. Aside from his editing innovations, Eisenstein pioneered the concept of the collective group as a character, influenced by the example of the newly formed Soviet Union, as well as the Constructivist art of the period.DVD Features:Region 0Full Frame - 1.33Single Side - Single LayerAudio: Dolby Digital Stereo - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Audio CommentaryInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access
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This classic Italian farce stars the luminous Sophia Loren in a dual role, playing both Cleopatra and her look-alike, Nisca. Playing Cleopatra, Loren exudes mischievousness as the seductive queen who sleeps with her bodyguard every night, then has him poisoned the following day. When, one night, Cleopatra, slips away to meet Marc Anthony, she forces a slave girl, Nisca, who looks like her to take her place. The soldier assigned to guard Cleopatra that evening, in turn, falls in love with the woman he thinks is Cleopatra, causing no small amount of havoc in Egypt the next day when he is not killed. Famous for a skinny-dipping scene featuring the then 19 year-old Loren, TWO NIGHTS WITH CLEOPATRA is a hugely entertaining comedy.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseAdditional Release Material: TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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A drama of a young woman, the daughter of author Victor Hugo, who is obsessed with a soldier who does not return her love.
Academy Award Nominations: Best Actress--Isabelle Adjani.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenSingle Side - Single LayerAudio: Dolby Digital - English Dolby Digital - French& English Dolby Digital - Spanish
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