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Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Attack and Retreat AKA Italiani brava gente (1964) Giuseppe De Santis, Arthur Kennedy, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Raffaele Pisu
During the summer of 1941, Germany and its European allies invade the Soviet Union. Read More »
Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano AKA Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino (1977) Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Elena Solovey, Evgeniya Glushenko
Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general’s widow, Anna Petrovna. Read More »
The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom AKA Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma (1924) Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Anna Dmokhovskaya
As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married Read More »
The Overcoat AKA Shinel (1959) Aleksey Batalov, Rolan Bykov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Aleksandra Yozhkina
The story centers on the life and death of Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Read More »
Whistle Stop AKA Polustanok (1963) Boris Barnet, Vasiliy Merkurev, Yekaterina Mazurova, Nadezhda Rumyantseva
An academician spends his vacation not at a resort, but in a remote village. Read More »
Dimka AKA Ya kupil papu (1963) Ilya Frez, Aleksei Zagorsky, Olga Lysenko, Vladimir Treshchalov
It’s the story of a boy named Dimka (Alyosha Zagorsky), the young son of a lovely young widowed woman (Olga Lysenko) who is taking work as a typist. Read More »
My Apprenticeship AKA V lyudyakh (1939) Mark Donskoy, Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova
For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores Read More »
Miss Mend (1926) Boris Barnet, Fyodor Otsep, Natalya Glan, Igor Ilyinsky, Vladimir Fogel
Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike Read More »
Swan Lake: The Zone AKA Lebedyne ozero. Zona (1990) Yuri Ilyenko, Viktor Solovyov, Lyudmila Efimenko, Pylyp Ilyenko
This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. Read More »
The Vampire Family AKA Semya vurdalakov (1990) Gennadiy Klimov, Igor Shavlak, Yelena Karadzhova, Yuriy Katin-Yartsev, Nikolay Kochegarov
A newspaper sends a young reporter into the Russian countryside to make a nice, sensationalist yarn out of some strange stories going around. Read More »
Man from the Restaurant AKA Chelovek iz restorana (1927) Yakov Protazanov, Michael Chekhov, Mikhail Klimov, Mikhail Narokov
An elderly man works as a waiter at a luxurious restaurant. He’s content and full of hope, and treasures his family more than anything. Read More »
The White Bird Marked with Black AKA Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu oznakoyu (1971) Yuri Ilyenko, Larisa Kadochnikova, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Bogdan Stupka
Colourful ‘optimistic tragedy’ of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains Read More »
The Eve of Ivan Kupalo AKA Vechir na Ivana Kupala (1968) Yuri Ilyenko, Boris Khmelnitskiy, Larisa Kadochnikova, Yefim Fridman
Piotr is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long ago era. Read More »
The Wishing Tree AKA Natvris khe (1976) Tengiz Abuladze, Lika Kavzharadze, Soso Jachvliani, Zaza Kolelishvili
This film is about psychology of people, about lonesome persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic dreams… Read More »