A girl Paranya Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. Read More »
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War and Peace (1965) Sergey Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Saveleva
Eight-hour epic based on the book of the same name by Lev Tolstoy. Read More »
Mashenka (1942) Yuli Raizman, Valentina Karavayeva, Mikhail Kuznetsov, D. Pankratova
In 1939, as the air raid sirens sound over Moscow, a young man, Alyosha Read More »
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) / Oktyabr (1927) Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov
In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 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 »
Free Floating / Svobodnoe plavanie (2006) Boris Khlebnikov, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Evgeniy Sytyy, Pyotr Zaychenko
“Free Floating” is a melodrama with elements of comedy about a young lad Read More »
The River / Reka (2002) Aleksey Balabanov, Vasilii Borisov, Anna Flegontova, Mikhail Skryabin
A story of jealous love and betrayal that end up decimating a small group Read More »
The Dawns Here Are Quiet / 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 »
11 A.M. / Yeolhansi (2013) Hyun-seok Kim, Jae-yeong Jeong, Kim Ok-bin, Daniel Choi
In the not-so distant future, researchers at a deep-sea laboratory have finally succeed Read More »
Tale of the Siberian Land / Skazanie o zemle sibirskoy (1948) Ivan Pyrev, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Marina Ladynina, Boris Andreyev
His right hand having been wounded during the war, concert pianist Andrei Balashov Read More »