Summary: A 12-year orphan boy works for the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, undertaking dangerous reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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Summary: In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before the eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1982

Contents: 07:56 -- 06:19 -- 06:37 -- 07:00 -- 04:03 -- 04:45 -- 04:09

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hubro Music

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Summary: At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship between Sasha, a young boy who loves to play the violin, and Sergey, the macho driver of a steamroller. The film sidesteps sentimentality to give us a warm yet ironic look at two individuals who bridge differences in generations to form a powerful bond.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2002

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Summary: The action takes place between 1598 and 1605. It concerns the reign of Tsar Boris Godunov who has murdered the Tsarevich Dmitri in order to obtain the succession, and the challenge made to it by the Pretender Dmitri.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Philips 2002

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Kocsis, Zoltan.

Contents: Lyric pieces, op. 43 / Edvard Grieg -- Romanian folk dances / Bela Bart?ok -- Les jeux d'eaux a la Villa d'Este / Franz Liszt -- Deux Arabesques ; D'un cahier d'esquisses ; Suite bergamasque ; L'isle joyeuse ; Estampes / Claude Debussy -- Piano concerto no. 4 in G minor, op. 40 ; Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3 no. 2 ; Vocalise, op. 34 no. 14 (arr. by Zoltan Kocsis) / Sergei Rachmaninoff --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Philips Classics 1998

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Summary: At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill man's greatest desires. Only the Stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 2006

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Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: A homesick Russian poet, Gorchakov, researching in Italy with the aid of a beautiful interpreter, Eugenia, arrives at a Tuscan spa, while there he encounters the local mystic, who sets him on a challenging task.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1998

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Summary: Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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Summary: Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, images of Tarkovsky's childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life--a child's wartime exile, a mother's experience with political terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home--all intermingled with slow-motion dream sequences and poetic chunks of stark newsreels.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2000

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Summary: "Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness. In Solaris, legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002

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Summary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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L'Amour, Louis 1908-1988

Summary: Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that line to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor did he back away from any challenge. His determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast savage North American continent where no white man had been before. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, Jubal forged a legend as a powerful...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007

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Presley, Elvis 1935-1977

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1993

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Flier, Yakov

Contents: Chaconne from Partita in D minor for violin solo / J.S. Bach ; F. Busoni (13:49) -- Songs without words. No. 2 in A minor, op. 19, no. 2 (2:29) ; No. 10 in B minor, op. 30, no. 4 (2:55) ; No. 20 in E flat major, op. 53, no. 2 (2:53) ; No. 45 in C major, op. 102, no. 3 (1:25) ; No. 46 in G minor, op. 102, no. 4 (2:54) / F. Mendelssohn -- Nocturne in A flat major : no. 3 from cycle Romance...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCD 1996

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Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rand Communications 2000

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Milne, A. A 1882-1956

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1998

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Milne, A. A 1882-1956.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1998

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Summary: The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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