Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article. When director Kantemir Balagov first planned his post World War II drama, “Beanpole,” he had ...

Kantemir Balagov is repping Russia for the International Feature Film Oscar for the first time, with his second film, Beanpole. The story of the plight of two women in a devastated post-WWII Leningrad ...

Set in the aftermath of World War II, this dazzling movie centers on two friends who are each casualties of a historical trauma. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Services to share this page. EXCLUSIVE: After winning the FIPRESCI prize for Tesnota (Closeness) two years ago at Cannes, Russian director Kantemir Balagov returns with Beanpole a story about the ...

A great and terrible sadness hangs over every frame of “Beanpole,” the extraordinary new movie from Russian writer-director Kantemir Balagov. Set in Leningrad in the fall of 1945, the movie slowly ...

She fades in and out sometimes. They call it post-concussion syndrome, but basically Iya (Viktoria Miroshnichenko) just shuts down. Her body stiffens, her face goes blank and her breathing becomes ...

Leningrad. 1945. The Russian city is less than two years removed from the end of a 30-month siege in which a million citizens died, most from starvation. Food remains in short supply; people without ...

Iya (Viktoria Miroshnichenko) suffers from post-concussion syndrome after fighting on the frontlines during the Siege. Now a nurse in a musty Leningrad hospital that heaves with the dead and dying, ...

Not Rated. In Russian with subtitles. At Kendall Square Cinema. Russia’s selection for the Academy Award international film category and winner of the Un Certain Regard best director prize at Cannes ...

Those who found “1917” the wrong kind of “harrowing” — the fun kind — will surely experience the Russian drama “Beanpole” a different way. Making its Chicago premiere Friday at the Gene Siskel Film ...