Both spectacular and pious, "Tsar" positions itself between Sergei Eisenstein's "Ivan the Terrible" and Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev," though without their originality and inspiration. By The ...

Russia's biggest cinema chain says it will not show Matilda, a film based on an early romantic liaison of Tsar Nicholas II, citing fears for the safety of audiences after a string of attacks linked to ...

MAKHACHKALA, Russia -- The Mufti's Office in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan has joined a move initiated by a lawmaker and Russian Orthodox activists to prevent a romantic film about Tsar ...

Hundreds of billboards affirming the tsar's love for his empress have been welcomed by director of controversial film 'Matilda.' By Nick Holdsworth, Vladimir Kozlov Moscow Red Sqaure - H 2015 In the ...

Alexei Uchitel’s Matilda, which depicts affair between Nicholas II and ballet dancer, has faced calls for ban from religious and conservative critics. The Russian culture ministry has cleared a film ...

Film on 17th century glory echoes current desire for a new tsar Moscow: In a film that hit cinema screens this week, patriotic Russians despairing at the lack of a strong leader rise, throw out their ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court ordered the detention of a man on Saturday on suspicion of trying to intimidate cinemas into not showing a new film about the country's last tsar, Russia's news ...

A WSWS reader has written in with a comment on the unique documentary film Tsar to Lenin, available from Mehring Books. It has generally been conceded by film historians that All Quiet on the Western ...

The film, which depicts a romance between Nicholas II and ballerina Matilda Kschessinska before his marriage and coronation, is set for release on October 26 MOSCOW, October 16. /TASS/. Experts have ...

The 31st Moscow Film Festival will open June 19 with helmer Pavel Lungin’s Un Certain Regard player “Tsar.” Lungin, a Russian now based in France, will also chair the jury for the Official Competition ...