Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Ballad of a Soldier / Ballada o soldate (1959) Grigoriy Chukhray, Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova
During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a medal as a reward Read More »
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 »
Spring / Kevade (1969) Arvo Kruusement, Arno Liiver, Riina Hein, Aare Laanemets
Semi-autobiographical narrative by Oskar Luts about friendship Read More »
The Red and the White / Csillagosok, katonák (1967) Miklós Jancsó, József Madaras, Tibor Molnár, András Kozák
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks’ defeat of Czarists, the Whites. 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 »
Lived Once a Song-Thrush (1970) Otar Iosseliani, Gela Kandelaki, Gogi Chkheidze, Jansug Kakhidze
Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. Read More »
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors / Tini zabutykh predkiv (1965) Sergei Parajanov, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva
In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father’s killer. Read More »