Tag Archives: Soviet Union
One chance out of a thousand AKA Odin shans iz tysyachi (1969) Leon Kocharyan, Bagrat Oganesyan, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Arkadiy Sviderskiy, Aleksandr Fadeyev
In 1942, a detachment of scouts led by Captain Migunko is thrown into the Crimea occupied by the Germans. Read More »
Adam Wants to Be a Man AKA Adomas nori buti zmogumi (1959) Vytautas Zalakevicius, Vitalijus Puodziukaitis, Audrone Bajerciute, Stasis Petronaitis
In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds Read More »
Other People’s Letters AKA Chuzhie pisma (1976) Ilya Averbakh, Irina Kupchenko, Svetlana Smirnova, Sergei Kovalenkov
Zina is sixteen. She is a manipulative schoolgirl living in a small Russian town among sincere and simple people. Read More »
A Nest of Gentry AKA Dvoryanskoe gnezdo (1969) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Irina Kupchenko, Leonid Kulagin, Beata Tyszkiewicz
Lavretsky returns to his estate after stay in Paris. Frustrated with life Read More »
The Last Relic AKA Viimne reliikvia (1969) Grigori Kromanov, Aleksandr Goloborodko, Igrida Andrina, Elza Radzina
A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled – there’s a revolt of peasants going on. Read More »
The Tale of Tsar Saltan AKA Skazka o tsare Saltane (1967) Aleksandr Ptushko, Vladimir Andreyev, Larisa Golubkina, Oleg Vidov
Due to the genius of the great Russian poet Pushkin, this tale has become known to children Read More »
Great Citizen AKA Velikiy grazhdanin (1938) Fridrikh Ermler, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ivan Bersenev, Oleg Zhakov
In the guise of a character named Chakov, Ermler reconstructs in his epic the achievement Read More »
Unfinished Story AKA Neokonchennaya povest (1956) Fridrikh Ermler, Elina Bystritskaya, Sergey Bondarchuk, Sofiya Giatsintova
The local doctor Yelizaveta Maximovna sees and restores to health lots and lots of patients. Read More »
Peasants AKA Krestyane (1935) Fridrikh Ermler, Pyotr Aleynikov, Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina, Nikolay Bogolyubov
The struggle of farmers against the “kulaks” on collective farms. Read More »