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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 »
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 »
The House on Trubnaya (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 »
Road to Life AKA Putyovka v zhizn (1931) Nikolai Ekk, Nikolay Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov
Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. Read More »
Trial on the Road AKA Proverka na dorogakh (1986) Aleksey German, Rolan Bykov, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Vladimir Zamanskiy
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Film is set in the winter of 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Russia in WWII. Read More »
Heart of a Dog AKA Sobache serdtse (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 »
War-Time Romance AKA Voenno-polevoy roman (1983) Pyotr Todorovskiy, Nikolay Burlyaev, Natalya Andreychenko, Inna Churikova
This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer Read More »
I Am Cuba AKA Soy Cuba (1964) Mikhail Kalatozov, Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo
This study of Cuba–partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko–captures the island just before Read More »
Among Grey Stones AKA Sredi serykh kamney (1983) Kira Muratova, Igor Sharapov, Oksana Shlapak, Stanislav Govorukhin
This film is based on a short story of Vladimir Korolenko, Russian (born in Ukrainia) writer. Read More »
Private Life AKA Chastnaya zhizn (1982) Yuli Raizman, Mikhail Ulyanov, Iya Savvina, Irina Gubanova
A man gets fired from his cooshie government job. He thinks its the end of the world but slowly finds things to live for. Read More »
The Brothers Karamazov AKA Bratya Karamazovy (1969) Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyrev, Mikhail Ulyanov, Lionella Pyryeva
The 1968 film shows Fedor Karamazov as a stingy old man, who’s three sons are after his money. Read More »
Sour Grape AKA Hndzan (1974) Bagrat Oganesyan, A. Isahakyan, Sos Sargsyan, H. Azizyan
Far behind the lines Vahe receives the news of his father’s death. Read More »
Farewell AKA Proshchanie (1983) Elem Klimov, Stefaniya Stanyuta, Lev Durov, Aleksey Petrenko
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. Read More »