Lavretsky returns to his estate after stay in Paris. Frustrated with life,in his wife’s unfair, he falls in love with Lisa. Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Voskreseniye AKA Resurrection (1960) Mikhail Shvejtser, Tamara Syomina, Evgeniy Matveev, Pavel Massalsky
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Read More »
Conspiracy of the Doomed (1950) Mikhail Kalatozov, Lyudmila Skopina, Pavel Kadochnikov, Vladimir Druzhnikov
During the late 1940s early 1950s when not many movies were shot in the country Read More »
Chasing Two Hares (1961) Viktor Ivanov, Oleg Borisov, Margarita Krinitsyna, Nikolay Yakovchenko
Madcap comedy set in early 20th century Kiev about a barber whose fondness for drink, gambling, and women lead to bankruptcy. Read More »
Contest (1964) Bulat Mansurov, Rovshan Aliyev, M. Annayev, Ilmurad Bekmiyev
About the legendary musical competition between the famous Turkmen dutar player Shukur Bakhshy Read More »
Well, Come On, Smile (1985) Leida Laius, Arvo Iho, Monika Järv, Hendrik Toompere Jr., Tauri Tallermaa
Teenage Mari is sent to an orphanage. It’s an awful and unfriendly place to be. Read More »
Man Follows the Sun (1962) Mikhail Kalik, Nika Krimnus, Tatyana Bestayeva, Nikolay Volkov
A story about a boy walking across the town following sun. Read More »
There Were Seven Simeons (1989) Vladimir Eisner, Herz Frank
One family, one band. They seemed to be happy. A movie that investigates why these seemingly optimistic musicians Read More »
Twelve Chairs (1971) Leonid Gayday, Archil Gomiashvili, Sergey Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. Read More »
Visitor of a Museum (1989) Konstantin Lopushanskiy, Viktor Mikhaylov, Vera Mayorova, Vadim Lobanov
In a post-apocalyptic world, in which a large part of the population consists of demented Read More »
Road to the Stars (1957) Pavel Klushantsev, Georgi Solovyov, Leonid Khmara, Georgi Kulbush
Released one month after the launch of Sputnik 1, Klushantsev’s trailblazing visualisation of the past Read More »
Errors of Youth (1978) Boris Frumin, Nina Arkhipova, Lidiya Dorotenko, Nikolay Karachentsov
A young guy decides to try himself in a northern region of USSR after being honorably discharged from Soviet Army. Read More »
Clear Skies (1961) Grigoriy Chukhray, Nina Drobysheva, Evgeniy Urbanskiy, Natalya Kuzmina
At the outset of the War, Alexei,an airman, marries Sasha Lvova, a young factory worker. Read More »
The Amphibian Man (1962) Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadiy Kazanskiy, Vladimir Korenev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Kozakov
People living in a seaside town are frightened by reports about an unknown creature in the ocean. Read More »
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 »