During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a medal as a reward Read More »
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The Great Turning Point / Velikiy perelom (1945) Fridrikh Ermler, Mikhail Derzhavin, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Yuriy Tolubeev
World War II. German high command accumulates enormous forces for the assault. Read More »
Donbass (2018) Sergey Loznitsa, Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk
In eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda Read More »
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad / Sadko (1953) Aleksandr Ptushko, Sergey Stolyarov, Alla Larionova, Ninel Myshkova
An oddly Russian Sinbad seeks to bring happiness to his people Read More »
The House on Trubnaya / Dom na Trubnoy (1928) Boris Barnet, Vera Maretskaya, Anel Sudakevich, Ada Vojtsik
A girl Paranya Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. Read More »
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 »