 To Hunt a Genius Russia, Maksimus, 2006 , 704 min. 2 disks. Detective. Watch online or download for free! This 16-episode mini-series is based on Russian author Valentine Bardzinsky's novel of the same name, the first book in his ongoing "Centurion" series of crime novels. Mikhail Kovalenko is a journalist who covers criminal themes for a commercial television channel based in Moscow. Very talented in his work, he is charming and successful. His spare time is filled with interesting friends and fulfilling pastimes, when not spent with his beautiful and much beloved girlfriend. When a fellow journalist, environmentalist Bogdan Sokorov, mysteriously dies, Mikhail decides to investigate. He is soon drawn into a plot by a maniacal criminal to kill a famous Ukrainian microbiologist, Dr. Igor Shokhin, who, while researching ways to combat biological weapons, has discovered how to make the human body immune to all infectious diseases. To save this scientist, Mikhail will need to draw on all the skills and know-how he acquired in the military when he served in a special anti-terrorism unit.  The Lenin's Will Russia, 2006. History, Drama. The film is about life of Varlam Shalamov, author of "The Kolyma Tales", who spent 17 years in Stalin labor camps. Poet and prosaic, he died in 1982 in obscurity. His works were published only after his death. Varlam Shalamov served his sentence in a labor camp on the Kolyma River, in a polar region of the Russia's North-East. He was sentenced for spreading the word about a letter written by Lenin and addressed to the participants of the Communist Party Congress, where he criticized Stalin. This letter is also known as the "Lenin's will". This sequel is considered by critics and the press as on of the most truthful testimonies about the Soviet regime and Gulag. |