A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin Read More »
Tag Archives: russian
Twelve Chairs / 12 stulev (1971) Leonid Gayday, Archil Gomiashvili, Sergey Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. Read More »
Poet (1957) Boris Barnet, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Izolda Izvitskaya, Sergey Dvoretskiy
The Bolsheviks try to retake a Russian city from tsarist and French forces in the aftermath of the Revolution. Read More »
Lieutenant Kizhe / Poruchik Kizhe (1934) Aleksandr Faintsimmer, Mikhail Yanshin, Boris Gorin-Goryainov, Nina Shaternikova
A sarcastic comedy about the Russian-Soviet bureaucracy, based on the eponymous Read More »
Two in Love (1965) Mikhail Bogin
A young musician courts a beautiful woman who refuses Read More »
Walking the Streets of Moscow / Ya shagayu po Moskve (1964) Georgiy Daneliya, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei Loktev, Galina Polskikh
Young Siberian writer Volodya meets Kolya in the Moscow metro in his visit to a famous author. Read More »
Olga (2021) Elie Grappe, Anastasiia Budiashkina, Sabrina Rubtsova, Caterina Barloggio
A 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast exiled in Switzerland, who is working to secure a place Read More »
The Shoe / Kurpe (1998) Laila Pakalnina, Ivars Brakovskis, Igors Buraks, Viktors Cestnovs
The Shoe is set in a seaside Latvian town in the 1950s and deals with absurd laws of life in a border state. Read More »
Silent Souls / Ovsyanki (2010) Aleksey Fedorchenko, Igor Sergeev, Yuriy Tsurilo, Yuliya Aug
Present days. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body Read More »
Nobody Wanted to Die / Niekas nenorejo mirti (1965) Vytautas Zalakevicius, Kazimieras Vitkus, Regimantas Adomaitis, Bruno O’Ya
1947 year. Armed gangs are still hiding in Lithuanian forests. Read More »