74 Films & TV Shows Set In Russia During The 19th Century
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War and Peace
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1800s The 1810sTHE DEFINITIVE EPIC OF ALL TIME. โ 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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Doctor Zhivago
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sTurbulent were the times and fiery was the love story of Zhivago, his wife and the passionate, tender Lara. โ The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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Song Without End
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyThe romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
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Adorable Sinner
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1880s The 1870s The 1860s The 1850sMen couldn't resist her...not even an Emperor! โ The Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.
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The White Warrior
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1850sAt the Power Peak of the Universe... At the Fury Pinnacle of the World Stands... THE WHITE WARRIOR! โ The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.
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Prisoner of the Volga
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyRaging Floodtide of Savagery! โ Prisoner of the Volga
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Eugene Onegin
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyEugene Onegin, a jaded young dandy from the big city of St. Petersburg, travels to the country to ingratiate himself into the affection of a dying uncle. There he meets the idealistic and romantic poet Vladimir Lensky, who introduces him to the daughters of a local landowner.
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Dubrowsky
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyDubrowsky (Italian: Il vendicatore) is a 1959 Italian- Yugoslav historical period drama film directed by William Dieterle. It is based on the novel Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin.
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The Brothers Karamazov
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyThe greatness and glory, the loves and sins of the famed novel. โ Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
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War and Peace
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1800s The 1810sThe Greatest Novel Ever Written ... Now Magnificently Alive On The Screen! โ 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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Michael Strogoff
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyHe Fought Single-Handed Against the Terror of Tartar Hordes! โ After the death of his wife and his son, Michael, an intrepid Russian imperial army officer, lost the joy of living. His family has been the victim of an attack by the commander Ogareff Tartar troops, operating in the eastern DRC. When Tsar commissioned him to cross the dangerous mission across Siberia to restore communications troops sabotaged by Ogareff, the young officer does not hesitate to accept.
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Dunja
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Admiral Ushakov
England ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐น๐ท Turkey The 19th Century The 18th CenturyHistorical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.
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Revenge of Black Eagle
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyWhen a soldier returns home from the wars, he finds that a local landowner has been terrorizing his family. He disguises himself as a bandit known as "The Black Eagle" and begins taking revenge on the landowner by ravaging his "empire". However, things take a different turn when he falls for the landowner's beautiful daughter
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The Queen of Spades
๐ท๐บ 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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Academician Ivan Pavlov
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1870s The 20th CenturyRussia, 1875: In Riazanโ, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlovโs dismay, he orders the destruction of a beautiful apple orchard. 1894: Experimenting on dogs, Pavlov tries to comprehend the interaction between nerves and external signals governing digestion. In 1904, he formulates the principles of conditional reflexes. When Zvantsev, an opponent of Pavlovโs materialist worldview, leaves the laboratory, the scientist hires Varvara Ivanova who becomes his most reliable assistant. 1912: Pavlov receives an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University. 1917: Despite Pavlovโs political scepticism, the Bolshevik administration treats him with great respect.
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Song of My Heart
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyThe portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
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Song of Scheherazade
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1860sA beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
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L'Idiot
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyMuichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.
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A Pistol Shot
๐ท๐บ Russia The 19th CenturyCount Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire...
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