The Mongolian shepherd Gombo lives in a yurt in Inner Mongolia with his wife, three children, and mother. Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
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 »
Jolly Fellows (1934) Grigori Aleksandrov, Leonid Utyosov, Lyubov Orlova, Mariya Strelkova
Yelena (Mariya Strelkova), a well-off would-be singer who can’t carry a tune Read More »
The Fall of Otrar (1991) Ardak Amirkulov, Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev, Tungyshpai Zhamankulov, Bolot Beyshenaliev
This historical epic charts political intrigue among the Kipchaks Read More »
Lived Once a Song-Thrush (1970) Otar Iosseliani, Gela Kandelaki, Gogi Chkheidze, Jansug Kakhidze
Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. Read More »
Falling Leaves (1966) Otar Iosseliani, Ramaz Giorgobiani, Gogi Kharabadze, Marina Kartsivadze
A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State. Read More »
Days of Eclipse (1988) Aleksandr Sokurov, Aleksei Ananishnov, Eskender Umarov, Irina Sokolova
Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. Read More »
Zoya (1944) Lev Arnshtam, Galina Vodyanitskaya, Yekaterina Skvortsova, Kseniya Tarasova
Zoya is the inspirational true story of one of Russia’s most beloved national heroines. Read More »
My Universities (1940) Mark Donskoy, Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin
The last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy’s Maxim Gorky trilogy. Read More »
The Enchanted Desna (1964) Yuliya Solntseva, Boris Andreyev, Evgeniy Bondarenko, Vladimir Goncharov
During the Second World War a writer is crossing the Desna river together with Soviet soldiers. Read More »
The Steamroller and the Violin (1961) Andrei Tarkovsky, Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Marina Adzhubei
Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Read More »
Andrei Rublev (1966) Andrei Tarkovsky, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history Read More »
Dark Is the Night (1945) Boris Barnet, Irina Radchenko, Boris Andreyev, Ivan Kuznetsov
A girl, working in a German commandant’s office, saves two wounded Russian pilots sacrificing her own life. Read More »