Kavkazskyi Plennik: Bodrov at his Sublime Best
I first watched this film in 2009 when I was taking Russian language classes at Rhode Island College. It was, in fact, the second Sergei Bodrov film…
Ya ne vernus’: Toward a Kazakhstani Lake Kitëzh
The next film on my docket of Kazakh movies was actually a joint venture between Estonian, Finnish, Belorussian, Russian and Kazakhstani studios: the 2014 drama Ya ne…
Shıza: A Very Russian Crime Drama
The first Sergei Bodrov film I ever saw was his delightfully-hammy and gloriously-terrible 2005 historical epic Kóshpendiler, a highly-fictionalized account of the early life and career of…