Category: Thriller
All Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Release Year: 2005
Country: UK
Runtime: 133
Rating: 7.4 (0)
Languages: English, Russian
Director: Jon Jones
Sound: Stereo
Taglines:

Writing by: Robert Harris - (novel)
Dick Clement - (screenplay) &
Ian La Frenais - (screenplay)

Produced by: Justin Bodle - executive producer
Christopher Hall - producer
Laura Mackie - executive producer
Lee Morris - line producer
Jessica Pope - executive producer

Cast: Daniel Craig - Prof. Fluke Kelso
Yekaterina Rednikova - Zinaida Rapava
Gabriel Macht - R.J. OBrian
Lev Prygunov - Vladimir Mamantov
Alexey Diakov - Suvorin
Harry Ditson - Frank Adelman
Tanya Moodie - Velma
Avtandil Makharadze - Josef Stalin
Anna Gerasimova - Anna
Claudia Harrison - Louise
Kaspars Zvigulis - Young Papu Rapava

Music: Robert Lane
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Plot Outline: A British college professor working in Russia investigates certain mysteries surrounding the life and death of Joseph Stalin.
Plot: Set in contemporary Moscow and the frozen northern town of Archangel, the drama revisits the stark landscape of Communist Russia and takes place over four days in the life of academic Fluke Kelso. His fateful meeting with a former Stalinist bodyguard leads to the uncovering of one of the worlds most dangerous and best kept secrets. He is led unwittingly through murder and intrigue towards his own personal “Holy Grail” - Joseph Stalins secret legacy - a legacy that could change the face of Russian history forever.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Outtakes from the film are shown during the closing credits.

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: After Kelso is released from the police station he is given a ride by the Russian intelligence. You can clearly see that he is getting into black BMW 5 series (e-39) but in the next shot he is getting out from a black BMW 7 series (e-38).

Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Icon Productions originally held the film rights to the novel, with intentions to develop it as a Mel Gibson vehicle for the big screen.

Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy
Release Year: 1990
Country: Canada
Runtime: 90
Rating: 4.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Guy Maddin
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Writing by: John B. Harvie - story suggestion
Guy Maddin - screenplay
George Toles - screenplay

Produced by: Andre Bennett - executive producer
Greg Klymkiw - producer
Tracy Traeger - associate producer
Tracy Traeger - line producer

Cast: Michael Gottli - Jannings
David Falkenburg - Geza
Michael OSullivan - Doctor
Margaret Anne MacLeod - Baba
Ari Cohen - Philbin
Sarah Neville - Danchuk
Kathy Marykuca - Veronkha
Kyle McCulloch - Lt. John Boles
Victor Cowie - Sea Captain
Ihor Procak - Monk
Robert Lougheed - Kaiser Wilhelm II

Music: Ilayaraja Anu Malik
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Plot Outline: A surrealistic film in which a strangely assorted group of people come together in the Russian Arctic at the height of the revolution and World War One.
Plot: Lt. John Boles, a one-legged soldier, is assisting the White Russians in the Russian Arctic during World War I. He finds himself in Archangel, a crystalline city of spires and domes, inhabited by some very confused people. Boles loves Iris, who is dead, and meets Veronkha, whom he mistakes for Iris. But Veronkha is already married to Philbin, who forgets he is married to Veronkha. Veronkha thinks Boles is Philbin…

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The title appears as if it were being poured, in colored water, by faucets into a reflecting pool.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: During one scene, a poster for Walter Hills film The Warriors (1979) can be seen in the background. That film was not released until 1979, ten years after the events in the film.

Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Tabu, Aishwarya Rai, and Karishma were offered parts in this movie but dropped out for different reasons. Tabu didnt like the part she was offered. Aishwarya didnt want to work with Manisha and Karishma didnt want to work with other actresses.
• The following statement appears before the film begins. As it is being displayed, a voice-over (presumably that of the statements author) reads it in Hindi : “None of the characters or situations depicted in this film are imaginary or fictional, really speaking. They are echoes of what is happening all around us in our so called civilized society. At best, these voices - cries, and shrieks, pleas and whispers - have been amplified for deaf people to take note. After all, the greatness of a civilization can only be measured by the status of its women.” Rajukumar Santoshi