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The Magic Voyage of Sinbad AKA Sadko (1953) Aleksandr Ptushko, Sergey Stolyarov, Alla Larionova, Ninel Myshkova
An oddly Russian Sinbad seeks to bring happiness to his people Read More »
The House on Trubnaya AKA Dom na Trubnoy (1928) Boris Barnet, Vera Maretskaya, Anel Sudakevich, Ada Vojtsik
A girl Paranya Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. Read More »
War and Peace AKA Voyna i mir (1965) Sergey Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Eight-hour epic based on the book of the same name by Lev Tolstoy. Read More »
Mashenka (1942) Yuli Raizman, Valentina Karavayeva, Mikhail Kuznetsov, D. Pankratova
In 1939, as the air raid sirens sound over Moscow, a young man, Alyosha Read More »
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) AKA Oktyabr (1927) Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov
In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 Read More »
Zoya (1944) Lev Arnshtam, Galina Vodyanitskaya, Yekaterina Skvortsova, Kseniya Tarasova
Zoya is the inspirational true story of one of Russia’s most beloved national heroines. Read More »
Free Floating AKA Svobodnoe plavanie (2006) Boris Khlebnikov, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Evgeniy Sytyy, Pyotr Zaychenko
“Free Floating” is a melodrama with elements of comedy about a young lad Read More »
The River AKA Reka (2002) Aleksey Balabanov, Vasilii Borisov, Anna Flegontova, Mikhail Skryabin
A story of jealous love and betrayal that end up decimating a small group Read More »
The Dawns Here Are Quiet AKA A zori zdes tikhie (1972) Stanislav Rostotskiy, Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova, Elena Drapeko
Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. Read More »
11 A.M. AKA Yeolhansi (2013) Hyun-seok Kim, Jae-yeong Jeong, Kim Ok-bin, Daniel Choi
In the not-so distant future, researchers at a deep-sea laboratory have finally succeed Read More »
Tale of the Siberian Land AKA Skazanie o zemle sibirskoy (1948) Ivan Pyrev, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Marina Ladynina, Boris Andreyev
His right hand having been wounded during the war, concert pianist Andrei Balashov Read More »
The Lighthouse AKA Mayak (2006) Mariya Saakyan, Anna Kapaleva, Olga Yakovleva, Sos Sargsyan
In the 90s, Lena returns to the home of her grandparents in a tiny, war-torn village in Armenia. Read More »
Pacific Palisades (1990) Bernard Schmitt, Sophie Marceau, Adam Coleman Howard, Anne E. Curry
A woman from Paris, Bernadette, comes to the United States after being promised a job. Read More »
Golden Voices (2019) Evgeny Ruman, Mariya Belkina, Vladimir Friedman, Evelin Hagoel
Victor and Raya Frenkel were the golden voices of the Soviet film dubbing for decades. Read More »