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
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Aleksey Chadov · Ian Kelly · Ingeborga Dapkunaite · Sergei Bodrov Jr.
6.4
131 votes
6.4
131 votes
It Doesn't Hurt
2006 · Movie · 100 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksei Balabanov
Cast Renata Litvinova · Aleksandr Yatsenko · Dmitriy Dyuzhev · Inga Strelkova-Oboldina
5.8
40 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
Transit
2006 · Movie · 140 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Cast Aleksey Serebryakov · Daniil Strakhov · Anastasiya Nemolyayeva · Svetlana Stroganova
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The Source of Snakes
1997 · Movie · 87 min. · Russia
Direction Nikolay Lebedev
Cast Ekaterina Guseva · Olga Ostroumova · Yevgeny Mironov · Sergey Makhovikov
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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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The Arrival of a Train
1995 · Movie · 98 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksei Balabanov · Vladimir Khotinenko · Aleksandr Khvan · Dmitri Meskhiyev
Cast Anna Syomkina · Aleksandr Kaidanovsky · Aleksei Zhirov · Aleksey Serebryakov
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Delo o 'Myortvykh dushakh' (TV Series)
2005 · Series · 364 min. · Russia
Direction Pavel Lungin
Cast Pavel Derevyanko · Konstantin Khabenskiy · Sergey Garmash · Nina Usatova
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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...
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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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