Alexi leaves the house of his father and stepmother and rents an apartment. Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Whistle Stop AKA Polustanok (1963) Boris Barnet, Vasiliy Merkurev, Yekaterina Mazurova, Nadezhda Rumyantseva
An academician spends his vacation not at a resort, but in a remote village. Read More »
One chance out of a thousand AKA Odin shans iz tysyachi (1969) Leon Kocharyan, Bagrat Oganesyan, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Arkadiy Sviderskiy, Aleksandr Fadeyev
In 1942, a detachment of scouts led by Captain Migunko is thrown into the Crimea occupied by the Germans. Read More »
Stray Dogs AKA Psy (1989) Dmitriy Svetozarov, Sergey Kokovkin, Andrey Krasko, Aleksey Krychenkov
A group of hunters enters a ghost town in Central Asia with a mission to kill packs Read More »
Men of Novgorod AKA Novgorodtsy (1943) Boris Barnet, Evgeniy Grigorev, Olga Yakunina, Ekaterina Sipavina
The story of a French pilot, shot down by the Nazis and falling into a partisan detachment in the Novgorod region. Read More »
Lyana (1955) Boris Barnet, Kyunna Ignatova, Aleksandr Shvorin, Muza Krepkogorskaya
Young musicians live and perform in a Moldovan collective. The state awards to 3 boys are secretly Read More »
Dark Is the Night AKA Odnazhdy nochyu (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 »
Lyumi (1991) Vladimir Bragin, Andrey Shcherbovich-Vecher, Vita Grebneva, Nadezhda Butyrtseva
A tall creepy werewolf-like monster dressed in a raincoat is roaming around in a Baltic forest 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 Read More »
City Zero AKA Gorod Zero (1988) Karen Shakhnazarov, Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov
An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow Read More »
The Day the Earth Froze AKA Sampo (1959) Aleksandr Ptushko, Urho Somersalmi, Anna Orochko, Ivan Voronov
Based on Finnish mythology, this movie traces the exploits of Lemminkäinen as he woos Read More »
The Stone Flower AKA Kamennyy tsvetok (1946) Aleksandr Ptushko, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Yekaterina Derevshchikova, Tamara Makarova
Aging master gemcutter Prokopych is forced to take up a young apprentice against his will. Read More »
Hello, That’s Me! AKA Barev, yes em (1966) Frunze Dovlatyan, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Rolan Bykov, Natalya Fateeva
Artyom Manvelyan is a famous physicist and founder of a cosmology laboratory in Armenia. Read More »
An Unusual Exhibition AKA Arachveulebrivi gamopena (1968) Eldar Shengelaia, Guram Lortkipanidze, Valentina Telichkina, Vasili Chkhaidze
Back from the war, a promising sculptor Aguli gets married Read More »
Ordinary Wonder AKA Obyknovennoye chudo (1979) Mark Zakharov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Irina Kupchenko, Evgeniy Leonov
A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive Read More »