Zina is sixteen. She is a manipulative schoolgirl living in a small Russian town among sincere and simple people. Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
13 PM (1969) Larisa Shepitko, Lev Kruglyy, Georgiy Vitsin, Anatoliy Papanov
Various dwellers of the Russian forest: Leshiy (forest goblin), Vodyanoy (water spirit), Ovinni (barn spirit) Domovoy (house spirit) Read More »
Strike (1925) Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov
In Russia’s factory region during Czarist rule, there’s restlessness and strike planning among workers Read More »
By the law (1926) Lev Kuleshov, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Sergey Komarov, Vladimir Fogel
A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success Read More »
Carnival in Moscow (1956) Eldar Ryazanov, Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yuri Belov
This Russian musical manages to satirize Soviet life without ever offending the Politburo. Read More »
Dauria (1972) Viktor Tregubovich, Vitali Solomin, Petr Shelokhonov, Yefim Kopelyan
Epic about Cossacks in the Siberian province of Dauria. Set in the time of World War I and the Russian revolution of 1917. Read More »
The Great Turning Point (1945) Fridrikh Ermler, Mikhail Derzhavin, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Yuriy Tolubeev
World War II. German high command accumulates enormous forces for the assault. Read More »
Heart of a Dog (1988) Vladimir Bortko, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov
Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human’s hypophysis into a dog’s brain. Read More »
A Hunting Accident (1978) Emil Loteanu, Galina Belyaeva, Oleg Yankovskiy, Kirill Lavrov
You can’t make a heart love somebody. This gospel is well known to the young Olenka. Read More »
Teheran 43: Spy Ring (1981) Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Curd Jürgens, Igor Kostolevskiy
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin (Igor Kostolevsky), a Soviet agent Read More »
The Captivating Star of Happiness (1975) Vladimir Motyl, Irina Kupchenko, Aleksey Batalov, Natalya Bondarchuk
On December 14, 1825 the military units of the Russian army were supposed to swear their allegiance to the new czar, Nicholas I. Read More »
URGA (1991) Nikita Mikhalkov, Badema, Bayaertu, Vladimir Gostyukhin
The Mongolian shepherd Gombo lives in a yurt in Inner Mongolia with his wife, three children, and mother. Read More »
Cold Summer of 1953 (1988) Aleksandr Proshkin, Valeriy Priyomykhov, Anatoliy Papanov, Viktor Stepanov
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. Read More »
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985) Aleksey German, Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin’s Great Purge. Read More »
Twenty Days Without War (1977) Aleksey German, Yuriy Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Aleksey Petrenko
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. Read More »