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CriticCrunch has 3 Evgeniy Sidikhin titles in its catalog, ranked by quality percentile. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Never Look Away.
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German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
Dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck · With Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer

Fed up with the hectic, senseless world he lives in, Teddy decides to settle down alone in Siberia, in the midst of winter, in a hut by the shore of Lake Baikal. After an initial period of elation in front of the splendor and magic of unspoiled nature, Teddy soon finds himself confronted with the less glossy side of things : solitude, extreme cold, the necessity to find food, danger... One night Teddy gets lost in a blizzard and would be doomed to a certain death, were it not for Aleksei, a Russian convict living hidden away in the forest nearby, who rescues him in extremis. Friendship soon blossoms between the two men...
Dir. Safy Nebbou · With Raphaël Personnaz, Evgeniy Sidikhin

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.
Dir. Łukasz Kośmicki · With Bill Pullman, Lotte Verbeek, James Bloor