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Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Walking the Streets of Moscow AKA Ya shagayu po Moskve (1964) Georgiy Daneliya, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei Loktev, Galina Polskikh
Young Siberian writer Volodya meets Kolya in the Moscow metro in his visit to a famous author. Read More »
Nobody Wanted to Die AKA Niekas nenorejo mirti (1965) Vytautas Zalakevicius, Kazimieras Vitkus, Regimantas Adomaitis, Bruno O’Ya
1947 year. Armed gangs are still hiding in Lithuanian forests. Read More »
Some Interviews on Personal Matters AKA Ramdenime interviu pirad sakitkhebze (1978) Lana Gogoberidze, Sofiko Chiaureli, Gia Badridze, Ketevan Orakhelashvili
A journalist realizes that while exploring and writing about the private lives of others 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 »
Goodbye, Boys AKA Do svidaniya, malchiki! (1966) Mikhail Kalik, Natalya Bogunova, Evgeniy Steblov, Anna Rodionova
Goodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. Read More »
You and Me AKA Ty i ya (1971) Larisa Shepitko, Leonid Dyachkov, Yuriy Vizbor, Alla Demidova
Came very close to opening in neurosurgery, from which depended the salvation of many people Read More »
The Snow Queen AKA Snezhnaya koroleva (1957) Lev Atamanov, Vladimir Gribkov, Yanina Zheymo, Anna Komolova
When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay Read More »
A Railway Station for Two AKA Vokzal dlya dvoikh (1983) Eldar Ryazanov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Basilashvili, Nikita Mikhalkov
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. Read More »
A Cruel Romance AKA Zhestokiy romans (1984) Eldar Ryazanov, Alisa Freyndlikh, Larisa Guzeeva, Nikita Mikhalkov
Cinematographic adaptation of classical Russian play “Dowry-less” by A. Ostrovsky. Read More »
The Bay of Death AKA Bukhta smerti (1926) Abram Room, Nikolai Saltykov, Leonid Yurenev, Vasili Yaroslavtsev
The mechanic on a battleship during the Civil War in Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution Read More »
The Village Teacher AKA Selskaya uchitelnitsa (1947) Mark Donskoy, Vera Maretskaya, Pavel Olenev, Daniil Sagal
Eve of the First World War. After graduating from high school in St. Petersburg Read More »
The Youth of Maxim AKA Yunost Maksima (1935) Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it… “an impressive and technically outstanding Read More »
My Universities AKA Moi universitety (1940) Mark Donskoy, Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin
The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy’s Maxim Gorky trilogy. Read More »
The Duel AKA Plokhoy khoroshiy chelovek (1973) Iosif Kheifits, Oleg Dal, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Lyudmila Maksakova
Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. Read More »