For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Miss Mend (1926) Boris Barnet, Fyodor Otsep, Natalya Glan, Igor Ilyinsky, Vladimir Fogel
Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike Read More »
Swan Lake: The Zone AKA Lebedyne ozero. Zona (1990) Yuri Ilyenko, Viktor Solovyov, Lyudmila Efimenko, Pylyp Ilyenko
This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. Read More »
Man from the Restaurant AKA Chelovek iz restorana (1927) Yakov Protazanov, Michael Chekhov, Mikhail Klimov, Mikhail Narokov
An elderly man works as a waiter at a luxurious restaurant. He’s content and full of hope, and treasures his family more than anything. Read More »
The White Bird Marked with Black AKA Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu oznakoyu (1971) Yuri Ilyenko, Larisa Kadochnikova, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Bogdan Stupka
Colourful ‘optimistic tragedy’ of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains Read More »
The Eve of Ivan Kupalo AKA Vechir na Ivana Kupala (1968) Yuri Ilyenko, Boris Khmelnitskiy, Larisa Kadochnikova, Yefim Fridman
Piotr is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long ago era. Read More »
The Wishing Tree AKA Natvris khe (1976) Tengiz Abuladze, Lika Kavzharadze, Soso Jachvliani, Zaza Kolelishvili
This film is about psychology of people, about lonesome persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic dreams… Read More »
Road to Life AKA Putyovka v zhizn (1931) Nikolai Ekk, Nikolay Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov
Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. Read More »
Trial on the Road (1986) Aleksey German, Rolan Bykov, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Vladimir Zamanskiy
Film is set in the winter of 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Russia in WWII. Read More »
Heart of a Dog AKA Sobache serdtse (1988) Vladimir Bortko, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov
Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human’s hypophysis into a dog’s brain. Read More »