Cinematography: Vilen Kaluta

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Vilen Kaluta. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Burnt by the Sun

1994 · Movie · 152 min. · Russia

Direction Nikita Mikhalkov

Cast Nikita Mikhalkov · Oleg Menshikov · Ingeborga Dapkunaite · Nadezhda Mikhalkova

Plot Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov is also the star of this tragic 1994 drama about the last happy season in the life of a Bolshevik hero's family. The year is 1936,...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

Close to Eden

1991 · Movie · 118 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Nikita Mikhalkov

Cast Badema · Bayaertu · Vladimir Gostyukhin · Baoyinhexige

Plot Gombo is a simple man who lives in the vast grassy fields of China with his wife, two children, and mother. The most interesting aspect of the film is the...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Flights in Dreams and in Reality

1983 · Movie · 92 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

6.7

32 votes

6.7

32 votes

The Legend of Princess Olga

1984 · Movie · 170 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Yuri Ilyenko

Cast Lyudmila Yefymenko · Les Serdyuk · Ivan Ivanov · Nikolay Olyalin

Plot The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olga of Kievan Rus at the 10th century.

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The White Bird Marked with Black

1971 · Movie · 99 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

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A Friend of the Deceased

1997 · Movie · 100 min. · Russia

Direction Leonid Boyko · Vyacheslav Krishtofovich

Cast Aleksandr Lazarev Ml. · Anzhelika Nevolina · Elena Korikova · Tatyana Krivitskaya

Plot Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquantance to have a contract placed on the man that...

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Defying Everybody

1973 · Movie · 86 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Yuri Ilyenko

Cast Vladimir Popovic · Larisa Kadochnikova · Ivan Mikolajchuk · Boris Khmelnitsky

Plot Trials and tribulations of Petar I Petrovic, the man who united Montenegro in the 18th century and led them in the Battle of Krusi against a huge Turkish army to...

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Lone Wolf

1978 · Movie · 77 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Roman Balayan

Cast Mikhail Golubovich · Oleg Tabakov · Yelena Khrol · Yuri Dubrovin

Plot This impressionistic film, based on a cycle of stories by Turgenev, called "The Notes of a Hunter," has almost no dialogue and explores the ordinary daily rounds of Foma (Michael...

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