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Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof.
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In honor of his newly created religion, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy renounces his title, property, and family in favor of poverty and celibacy. For the Countess Sofya, his wife of nearly fifty years, this is the last straw! After she discovers his plans to leave the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she decides to use every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, to fight for what she believes is...
5) Red sparrow
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Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
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"A tornado of war, of blood and death crossed over Mamayov Hill. The summer of 1942 was a time of terrible anxiety. The firing line of the Soviet-German front extended hundreds of miles over Soviet soil from the Arctic Ocean down to the Black Sea. There was constant fighting in the key sectors while battles raged on a barren sea"--Container
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Seagal plays Ruslan, a former Russian gangster who's now a successful crime novelist. He goes to attend his daughter's wedding and finds out her fiancé is the son of his arch enemy, a crime boss. The young man, Stephan, does not want to be a gangster and is not on good terms with his father. When Ruslan's ex-wife and daughter are attacked, he wants to find those responsible, and enlists the help of Stephan, who believes the daughter/fiancé to be...
9) Stalingrad
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A band of Russian soldiers fight German forces to defend a strategic building in Stalingrad, and develop a deep bond with the women who live there.
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"In the teens, a nation still recovering from its own growing pains was thrust onto the world stage and began its rise to the status of superpower. In this collection you'll discover the genesis of World War I and the reality of life in the trenches; walk the decks of the 'unsinkable' Titanic; witness the demise of a 300-year dynasty; and experience much more of this formative decade."--Container.
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Go from the Egyptian pyramids to the ocean floor and to a gravity-defying mountaintop ski chase with James Bond. He teams with beautiful Russian agent Anya Amasova to stop the megalomanic Stromberg from unleasing a horrific scheme for world domination using Russian and American submarines.
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