Gracefully composed and moving yet never maudlin, "Koktebel" reps a most auspicious feature debut for its two young co-directors, Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebsky, whose only previous films are ...

Details: 2003, Rest of the world, Cert 12A, 105 mins Direction: Alexei Popogrebsky and Boris Khlebnikov Summary: A widower takes his 11-year-old son on a journey across Russia to Koktebel. The pair ...

While the numbers may be impressive for mainstream Russian films in domestic release, the expanding international profile of Russian cinema is fueled in large part by young filmmakers who are pushing ...

In his 2003 feature film debut, Roads to Koktebel, Russian writer-director Aleksei Popogrebsky employed the conventions of the road movie to explore the cruel challenges, unforeseen turns, and ...

The film tells about the founding of the city of Koktebel a real secret adviser Eduard Jung, who in 1890 left the service in Moscow and moved to the arid lands of the future Koktebel. Maximilian ...

Gracefully composed and moving yet never maudlin, "Koktebel" reps a most auspicious feature debut for its two young co-directors, Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebsky, whose only previous films are ...

This somber, contemplative Russian film (2003), codirected by Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebsky, follows a homeless man and his 11-year-old son as they travel to the title Crimean town in search ...