Movies: Gennadiy Khrapunkov

Day of the Full Moon, a series of vignettes from Russia past and present, summons the spirit of Ophuls’ La Ronde, Altman’s Nashville and Short Cuts, and the time-shifting strategies of Resnais (Mon Oncle d’Amérique) to tell provocative, connected sto...

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Anna Petrovna has been dealt a bad hand: having survived the civil war and the deaths of her husband and daughter, she is now faced with her granddaughter's indifference. After her ring, the only piece of jewelry she owns, turns out to be an expensiv...