11 Films & TV Shows Set In Russia During The 1800s
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Union of Salvation
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 1810s The 1820sWe left, we can not return. — Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come - here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything - position, wealth, love, life ... and the country itself.
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Assa
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980s The 1800sASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
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The Duellists
🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 1810sFencing is a science. Loving is a passion. Duelling is an obsession. — In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
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Love and Death
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 1810sBoris is a simple Russian villager who pines from afar for his beautiful cousin Sonja. Forced against his will into joining the Russian army during the Napoleonic Wars, the cowardly Boris accidentally becomes a military hero. But when his beloved Sonja comes to him with a dangerous patriotic scheme, Boris debates his desires and beliefs.
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War and Peace
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 1810sTHE DEFINITIVE EPIC OF ALL TIME. — A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
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War and Peace
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 1810sThe Greatest Novel Ever Written ... Now Magnificently Alive On The Screen! — Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
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The Queen of Spades
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800sAn elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
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Lieutenant Kizhe
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800s The 18th CenturyA copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words for "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) lieutenant. The fiction turns out to be all too convenient for his courtiers, and Lieutenant Kizhe gets himself exiled to Siberia, recalled from exile, promoted and married.
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Krazy's Waterloo
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia The 1800sKrazy plays Napoleon in this savvy spoof of the war of 1812. Enlivened by two original songs.
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The Patriot
🇷🇺 Russia The 1800sThese characters will fascinate you! — In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad king, but because of the horror of the king's acts, he feels that he must remove him from the throne.
