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Some of the interesting and unusual documentaries to emerge recently from Russia.

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Pink TaxiStalker
(Country: UK; Director: Joseph Matthews)
A look at the idealism that fuelled the Communist dream and why it still means so much to many Russians.

(Country: Russia, France; Director: Monica Baptista, Jochem De Vries, Denes Nagy, Iris Olsson, Nikita Sutyrin & Andrei Tanase)
Six short films made by young Russians on the theme of borders, exploring changing cultural attitudes and perceptions.

(Country: UK, Russia; Director: Leslie Woodhead)
A look at the influence of music on the collapse of the USSR, and the many Beatles tribute bands who played behind the Iron Curtain.

(Country: Germany; Director: Uli Gaulke; Cast: Olga Fomina)
An introduction to Olga Fomina, Moscow's first women-only taxi service.

(Country: Russia; Director: Igor Maiboroda; Cast: Georgi Rerberg)
A look at the extraordinary life of director of photography Georgi Rerberg, who worked with Tarkovsky.

(Country: Russia; Director: Andrei Tarkovsky; Writer: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky; Cast: Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Alisa Fredndlikh, Anatoly Solonitsin, Nikolai Grinko, Natasha Abramova)
Sci-fi drama in which three men make a journey into the unknown in search of their deepest desire.

(Country: UK, Russia; Director: David Rounsfell Cairns)
A real life look at the life of a student clown in Moscow's State School for Circus and Variety Arts, once a vastly important centre for entertainment and propaganda.

(Country: Russia; Director: Alexander Markov, Nick Teplov)
A documentary portrait of Boris Koshelokhov, legendary counterculture artist in Leningrad.

(Country: Russia; Director: Oleg Morozov)
The story of how Konigsberg became Kaliningrad and what happened to its inhabitants in the process.


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