Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears / Moskva slezam ne verit (1980) Vladimir Menshov, Vera Alentova, Aleksey Batalov, Irina Muravyova
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Read More »
Melodies of the Vera Quarter / Veris ubnis melodiebi (1973) Giorgi Shengelaia, Sofiko Chiaureli, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Ia Ninidze
Pavle, who is a poor cart-driver has two girls, Maro and Tamro. Read More »
The Beauty / Grazuole (1969) Arunas Zebriunas, Inga Mickyte, Lilija Zadeikyte, Arvidas Samukas
The cruelty of children is offered in all its unadorned ugliness in “Grazuole”. Read More »
Alyonka (1962) Boris Barnet, Natalya Ovodova, Irina Zarubina, Vasiliy Shukshin
Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan Read More »
Waterloo (1970) Sergey Bondarchuk, Rod Steiger
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war Read More »
Attack and Retreat AKA Italiani brava gente (1964) Giuseppe De Santis, Arthur Kennedy, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Raffaele Pisu
During the summer of 1941, Germany and its European allies invade the Soviet Union. Read More »
Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano AKA Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino (1977) Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Elena Solovey, Evgeniya Glushenko
Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general’s widow, Anna Petrovna. Read More »
The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom AKA Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma (1924) Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Anna Dmokhovskaya
As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married Read More »
The Overcoat AKA Shinel (1959) Aleksey Batalov, Rolan Bykov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Aleksandra Yozhkina
The story centers on the life and death of Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Read More »