Renata Litvinova — Playwright (8)

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Passions (1994)
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other title: Les Petites passions / 狂热 …
Blonde Lilia and brunette Violetta are fascinated by horse racing, and the young racers are more than a little attracted to them, too. However, the worlds of sporting and romance don't always coexist peacefully as the two girls learn the hard way through a series of touching, surreal, and sometimes heartbreaking encounters. One of the most beautifully photographed Russian films in recent years, this acclaimed modern classic was hailed at numerous film festivals including the Berlin Film Festival and Russia's Kinotavr Festival, where it won the Jury and Critics Prizes. Amazon

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Two in One (2007)
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Кіра Муратова actor: 纳塔利亚·布兹科 / 雷娜塔·利特维诺娃
other title: 一事二了 / Два в одном …
This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality--if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal.

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The North Wind (2020)
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★ 4.0 6 ratings
雷娜塔·利特维诺娃 actor: 雷娜塔·利特维诺娃 / Sofya Ernst …
other title: 北风 / Северный ветер
玛格丽特是一个北部名门贵族里掌权的阔太太,她的儿子因失去未婚妻而心碎,整个家族都陷入动荡。玛格丽特决心掀起一场腥风血雨的复仇战,经过数年的准备,她筹划了一场盛大的除夕派对,并邀请一众宾客赴宴。玛格丽特在她无与伦比的豪宅中,等待着奇迹般的第13小时来结束这一切。

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Rita's Last Fairy Tale (2012)
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other title: 丽塔的最后童话 / Последняя Сказка Риты …
三个女人,三种心境,三个永恒的主题:爱情、仇恨和对幸福的追求。死亡天使竟然道成肉身,带领惜爱之人渡往另一个世界前寻求慰藉。莉塔身患绝症,在一所破落而充满超现实感的医院里开始她的生命倒数。女性导演利维诺娃在俄罗斯文化界广为人识,《疯癫的童话》的直率镜头充满了超现实主义意味,服装惊艳、场景唯美、情感丰富,在俄罗斯引起一时轰动。

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音程之旅 (2005)
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other title: Вокальные параллели / Vocal Parallels …
The Russian film diva and director Renata Litvinova, dressed in fantastic haute couture, in her own characteristic and humorous way, talks fragments of opera arias together.

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Three Stories (1997)
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Кіра Муратова actor: 谢尔盖·马科韦茨基 / Леонид Кушнир
other title: 三件事 / Три истории …
Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova offers a darkly comical look at everyday cruelty in these three savage tales. The first, "Boiler Room No. 6" is based on a story by Yevgeny Golubenko and takes place with in a blue-tinted boiler room where a panic-stricken resident of a communal apartment has dragged the body of his neighbor, a young woman he killed over an argument about a bar of soap. There he beseeches the talkative poet, who tends the massive furnace, to help him dispose of the body. The nearly surreal "Ophelia," the second story, centers on the vengeance of the title woman, a blonde beauty who works in a maternity hospital. One day she sneaks into a records room and learns the names of every mother in town who has given a baby up for adoption. Ophelia was one of these babies and she is still angry. She finds one of the mothers and strangles her. She then finds her own biological mother and pushes her off a dock. The third vignette, "The Maiden and Death" follows a winsome little girl who tires of being constantly admonished by her well-meaning, but wearisome, paralyzed grandfather. He says the word "no" once too often and she retaliates by slipping rat poison into his tea. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide