Cinematography: Sergei Astakhov

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


Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' (TV Miniseries)

2005 · Documentary · 300 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Laurence Rees · Catherine Tatge

Cast Linda Ellerbee · Horst-Günter Marx · Klaus Mikoleit

Plot Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution', is a BBC six-episode documentary film series presenting the story of Auschwitz through interviews with former inmates and guards and re-enactments, first televised...

7.8

1K votes

7.8

1K votes

Brother

1997 · Movie · 96 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksei Balabanov

Cast Sergei Bodrov Jr. · Viktor Sukhorukov · Svetlana Pismichenko · Mariya Zhukova

Plot Newly discharged from the army, Danila goes to his older brother - a gangster and a killer - to start a new life in St. Petersburg where he's soon situated...

6.9

796 votes

6.9

796 votes

Of Freaks and Men

1998 · Movie · 93 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksei Balabanov

Cast Sergey Makovetskiy · Dinara Drukarova · Anzhelika Nevolina · Viktor Sukhorukov

Plot Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina...

6.7

246 votes

6.7

246 votes

Brother 2

2000 · Movie · 122 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksei Balabanov

Cast Sergei Bodrov Jr. · Viktor Sukhorukov · Sergey Makovetskiy · Irina Saltykova

Plot Danila Bagrov meets his army buddy Konstantin Gromov in Moscow, with whom he fought in Chechnya. The friend tells Danila about his twin brother Dmitry, who is a professional hockey...

6.6

284 votes

6.6

284 votes

Salyut 7

2017 · Movie · 119 min. · Russia

Direction Klim Shipenko

Cast Vladimir Vdovichenkov · Pavel Derevyanko · Lyubov Novikova · Ilya Andryukov

Plot USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and...

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

The War

2002 · Movie · 120 min. · Russia

6.4

131 votes

6.4

131 votes

5.8

40 votes

Happy Days

1991 · Movie · 86 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Aleksei Balabanov

Cast Viktor Sukhorukov · Anzhelika Nevolina · Yevgeni Merkuryev · Georgi Tejkh

Plot An unnamed hero roaming the streets of St Petersburg is befriended by a beggar with a donkey and a slightly deranged prostitute.

5.8

68 votes

5.8

68 votes

Names in Marble

2002 · Movie · 95 min. · Estonia

Direction Elmo Nüganen

Cast Priit Võigemast · Indrek Sammul · Hele Kõre · Alo Kõrve

Plot Two brothers choose the opposite sides in a civil war of a small country. November 1918 the army of Soviet Union conquers Narva's and Petser's cities in spite of their...

5.6

108 votes

5.6

108 votes

In Tranzit

2008 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tom Roberts

Cast Thomas Kretschmann · John Malkovich · Vera Farmiga · Daniel Brühl

Plot In the chaotic aftermath of WWII, a group of German POWs are accidentally sent to a female-run Soviet prison camp. When the guards are given the task of weeding out...

5.5

324 votes

5.5

324 votes

Metro

2013 · Movie · 131 min. · Russia

Direction Anton Megerdichev

Cast Sergey Puskepalis · Anatoli Belyj · Svetlana Khodchenkova · Aleksey Bardukov

Plot Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel.

4.9

866 votes

4.9

866 votes

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The Source of Snakes

1997 · Movie · 87 min. · Russia

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Land of Legends

2022 · Movie · 160 min. · Russia

Direction Anton Megerdichev

Cast Aleksandr Kuznetsov · Fedor Bondarchuk · Vitaly Kishchenko · Aleksandr Gorbatov

Plot The 15th century. Sent to remote Parma by the Grand Prince of Moscow, prince Yermolay tells his son Mikhail about his dream: to create a grand princedom that would unite...

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Love by Request

1983 · Movie · 89 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Sergei Mikaelyan

Cast Oleg Yankovskiy · Yevgeniya Glushenko · Vsevolod Shilovsky · Irina Reznikova

Plot Vera (Glushenko) is a plain-looking librarian from a physically unattractive family who has never been able to develop a romantic liaison with anyone. When she meets Igor (Yankovskiy), she tries...

Not rated

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Elefant

2019 · Movie · 79 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksey Krasovskiy

Cast Polina Agureeva · Frédéric Beigbeder · Evgeniya Dmitrieva · Ivan Efremov

Plot The writer, Valentin Shubin, the author of the world-famous series of books about the Elephant Bear, going through a creative crisis.

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Not rated