Tag Archives: Soviet Union

The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin’s private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator’s death. Read More »

During World War II, a squad of Soviet POWs steals a tank from Nazi test site and rushes into a desperate shoot over Germany. Read More »

The film adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s biography of 1925 is the first Ukrainian biopic. Read More »

Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor Read More »

Characters familiar from Kevade are now in their 20s. In the beginning of the 20th century, Joosep Toots has returned from Russia, where he learned agriculture. Read More »

In the follow-up of Estonian classics “Kevade” (1969) and “Suvi” (1976) the same characters have reached their middle-age. Read More »

A newspaper sends a young reporter into the Russian countryside to make a nice, sensationalist yarn out of some strange stories going around. Read More »

When the frontline extends over Estonia in the summer of 1944, the pilots of a shot down Soviet airplane Read More »

Olga, is a young intelligent woman who raises a young son. She ends up falling in love with a married man who does not dare to leave his family. Read More »

To all appearances set in an anonymous South-American republic, the film is a moving story Read More »