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Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Acquaintance AKA Znakomstvo (1980) Igor Maslennikov, Vasiliy Livanov, Vitali Solomin, Rina Zelyonaya
In the late 19th century, retired military doctor is looking for rental housing in London and finds it at 221B Baker Street. Read More »
Brief Encounters AKA Korotkie vstrechi (1967) Kira Muratova, Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Vysotskiy
Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya’s apartment. Read More »
Ruslan and Ludmila AKA Ruslan i Lyudmila (1972) Aleksandr Ptushko, Valeri Kozinets, Natalya Petrova, Vladimir Fyodorov
Based on Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s fairy tale poem of the same name. Read More »
Rasputin AKA Agoniya (1981) Elem Klimov, Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line
Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the indecisive Nicholas Read More »
Vasilisa the Beautiful AKA Vasilisa prekrasnaya (1940) Aleksandr Rou, Georgiy Millyar, Sergei Stolyarov, Lev Potyomkin
Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Read More »
They Fought for Their Country AKA Oni srazhalis za rodinu (1975) Sergey Bondarchuk, Vasiliy Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Red army protects the bridgehead of the Don River Read More »
Fate of a Man AKA Sudba cheloveka (1959) Sergey Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko
The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. Read More »
Kino Eye AKA Kinoglaz (1924) Dziga Vertov
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. Read More »
Man with a Movie Camera AKA Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929) Dziga Vertov, Mikhail Kaufman
Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor Read More »
The Ferocious One AKA Lyutyy (1974) Tolomush Okeev, Kambar Valiyev, Suymenkul Chokmorov, Aliman Zhankorozova
This visually stunning Kazakh movie tells a tragic tale of absent and misplaced compassion. Read More »
Tears Were Falling AKA Slyozy kapali (1983) Georgiy Daneliya, Evgeniy Leonov, Iya Savvina, Nina Grebeshkova
One evening after a hard day at the office, Pavel Ivanovich Vasin starts to behave quite strangely to family and friends. Read More »
The Sixth Part of the World AKA Shestaya chast mira (1926) Dziga Vertov
“Sixth Part of the World” was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Read More »
Debut AKA Nachalo AKA The Beginning (1970) Gleb Panfilov, Inna Churikova, Valentina Telichkina, Tatyana Stepanova
A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club Read More »
Zolotoy telyonok AKA The Golden Calf (1968) Mikhail Shvejtser, Sergey Yurskiy, Leonid Kuravlyov, Zinoviy Gerdt
A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in “12 Chairs,” now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire. Read More »