Movies: Ilya Yashin

  • 2011
    Putin's Kiss

    Putin's Kiss (2011)

    Putin's Kiss

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    Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimir Putin and his promise of a greater Russia, her dedication as an organizer is rewarded with a unive...

    Putin's Kiss
  • 2021
    Rastorhuev

    Rastorhuev (2021)

    Rastorhuev

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    On July 30, 2018, documentary filmmaker Alexander Rastorguev was killed in the Central African Republic. He left a unique mark on Russian cinema, but managed to do much less than he could. "Rastorguev" - a portrait of one of the brightest and most fr...

    Rastorhuev
  • 2014
    The Term. Beginning of a Big Story

    The Term. Beginning of a Big Story (2014)

    The Term. Beginning of a Big Story

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    The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir Putin had just settled into the Kremlin for his third term. The original experimental format of “docu...

    The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
  • 2012
    Winter, Go Away!

    Winter, Go Away! (2012)

    Winter, Go Away!

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    Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin’s presidential run....

    Winter, Go Away!
  • 2017
    The Man Who Was Too Free

    The Man Who Was Too Free (2017)

    The Man Who Was Too Free

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    A documentary about Boris Nemtsov, a prominent figure of Russian political opposition and an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Nemtsov was murdered in Moscow in February of 2015....

    The Man Who Was Too Free
  • 2011
    Khodorkovsky

    Khodorkovsky (2011)

    Khodorkovsky

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    Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia knowing that he will be imprisoned, once he returns. When I heard about it, I asked myself: why didn't...

    Khodorkovsky
  • 2018
    Lusia in Wonderland

    Lusia in Wonderland (2018)

    Lusia in Wonderland

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    How Lyusia Stein - a graduate of VGIK and a municipal deputy of Moscow - went to work for Ksenia Sobchak's campaign headquarters....

    Lusia in Wonderland
  • 2022
    The Witness

    The Witness (2022)

    The Witness

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    Kursk railway station, cold train. Night road to the city of Pokrov. Colony N2 is located there, where another trial against Navalny is underway. Ilya Yashin goes to see him as a defense witness, who communicates with fellow travelers and talks about...

    The Witness
  • 2015
    My Friend Boris Nemtsov

    My Friend Boris Nemtsov (2015)

    My Friend Boris Nemtsov

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    An intimate portrait of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov — once Deputy Prime Minister and “an heir of President Yeltsin”, later an uncompromising adversary of Putin — that was assassinated near the Kremlin in February 2015. Election campaigns ...

    My Friend Boris Nemtsov
  • 2016
    Nemtsov

    Nemtsov (2016)

    Nemtsov

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    A story told by those who knew Boris Nemtsov at different times: when he was a young scientist and took his first steps in politics; when he held high government offices and was considered Boris Yeltsin's heir apparent; when he led Russia's democrati...

    Nemtsov