I can recommend...

An overview of what I have read/watched so far and consider worthwile sharing with you. Don't hesitate to send me suggestions.


Documentaries

• Russia - A journey with Jonathan Dimbleby (2008)
• Wild Russia (2011)
• Ballets Russes - Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfinger (2008)

Movies and TV series

in Russian (with subtitles :-))

• Русский ковчег (Russian ark) - Александр Сокуров (2002)
• Возвращение (The return) - Андрей Звягинцев (2003)
• Изгнание (The banishment) - Андрей Звягинцев (2008)
• Мать (Mother) - Глеб Панфилов (1990)
• Зеркало (The mirror) - Андрей Тарковский (1974)
• Ночной дозор (Night watch) - Тимур Бекмамбетов ( 2004)
• Дневной дозор (Day watch) - Тимур Бекмамбетов ( 2006)

in English

• War and peace - Dino de Laurentiis (1956) (with Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Mel Ferrer)
• War and peace - Robert Dornhelm (2007) (with Clémence Poésy, Alexander Beyer and Alessio Boni)
• Anna Karenina - Bernard Rose (1997) (with Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina)
• Doctor Zhivago - David Lean (1965) (with Omar Sharif and Julie Christie)
• Doctor Zhivago - TV series (2002) (with Sam Neill, Keira Knightley and Hans Matheson)

   

Books - non-fiction

in English

• I Was a Potato Oligarch: Travels and Travails in the New Russia - John Mole

in Dutch

• Rusland, een geschiedenis - Raymond Detrez
• Natasja's dans - Orlando Figes
• Hoever kan Europa oostwaarts reiken? De Russische factor - Katlijn Malfliet
• Russen zien ze vliegen - Peter d'Hamecourt
• Culinaria Russia - Tandem Verlag GmbH (2006)
  (exists also in English)

in Russian

... euh...

Books - fiction

in Dutch

• De meester en Margarita - Michail Boelgakov
• Anna Karenina - Lev Tolstoj