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Tag Archives: Soviet Union
The Story of the Voyages AKA Skazka stranstviy (1983) Aleksandr Mitta, Andrey Mironov, Tatyana Aksyuta, Lev Durov
In a medieval fantasy kingdom, two orphans, May and his sister Martha, live in poverty. Read More »
Belshazzar’s Feast, or Night with Stalin AKA Piry Valtasara, ili noch so Stalinym (1989) Yuriy Kara, Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandr Feklistov, Evgeniy Evstigneev
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin Read More »
Twelve Chairs AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA Dvoe (1965) Mikhail Bogin, Viktoriya Fyodorova, Valentin Smirnitskiy, Lina Braknyte
A young musician courts a beautiful woman who refuses Read More »
Walking the Streets of Moscow AKA 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 »
Nobody Wanted to Die AKA 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 »
Some Interviews on Personal Matters AKA Ramdenime interviu pirad sakitkhebze (1978) Lana Gogoberidze, Sofiko Chiaureli, Gia Badridze, Ketevan Orakhelashvili
A journalist realizes that while exploring and writing about the private lives of others Read More »
Adam Wants to Be a Man AKA Adomas nori buti zmogumi (1959) Vytautas Zalakevicius, Vitalijus Puodziukaitis, Audrone Bajerciute, Stasis Petronaitis
In a pre-WWII Lithuanian town, occupied with unemployed workers and crooks of various kinds Read More »
Goodbye, Boys AKA Do svidaniya, malchiki! (1966) Mikhail Kalik, Natalya Bogunova, Evgeniy Steblov, Anna Rodionova
Goodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. Read More »
You and Me AKA Ty i ya (1971) Larisa Shepitko, Leonid Dyachkov, Yuriy Vizbor, Alla Demidova
Came very close to opening in neurosurgery, from which depended the salvation of many people Read More »
The Snow Queen AKA Snezhnaya koroleva (1957) Lev Atamanov, Vladimir Gribkov, Yanina Zheymo, Anna Komolova
When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay Read More »
A Railway Station for Two AKA Vokzal dlya dvoikh (1983) Eldar Ryazanov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Basilashvili, Nikita Mikhalkov
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. Read More »