This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Man with a Movie Camera AKA Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929) Dziga Vertov, Mikhail Kaufman
Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor Read More »
The Ferocious One AKA Lyutyy (1974) Tolomush Okeev, Kambar Valiyev, Suymenkul Chokmorov, Aliman Zhankorozova
This visually stunning Kazakh movie tells a tragic tale of absent and misplaced compassion. Read More »
Tears Were Falling AKA Slyozy kapali (1983) Georgiy Daneliya, Evgeniy Leonov, Iya Savvina, Nina Grebeshkova
One evening after a hard day at the office, Pavel Ivanovich Vasin starts to behave quite strangely to family and friends. Read More »
The Sixth Part of the World AKA Shestaya chast mira (1926) Dziga Vertov
“Sixth Part of the World” was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Read More »
Debut AKA Nachalo AKA The Beginning (1970) Gleb Panfilov, Inna Churikova, Valentina Telichkina, Tatyana Stepanova
A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club Read More »
Zolotoy telyonok AKA The Golden Calf (1968) Mikhail Shvejtser, Sergey Yurskiy, Leonid Kuravlyov, Zinoviy Gerdt
A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in “12 Chairs,” now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire. Read More »
‘Hukkunud Alpinisti’ hotell AKA Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel (1979) Grigori Kromanov, Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson
Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Read More »
Voskreseniye AKA Resurrection (1960) Mikhail Shvejtser, Tamara Syomina, Evgeniy Matveev, Pavel Massalsky
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Read More »
Conspiracy of the Doomed (1950) Mikhail Kalatozov, Lyudmila Skopina, Pavel Kadochnikov, Vladimir Druzhnikov
During the late 1940s early 1950s when not many movies were shot in the country Read More »