During the late 1940s early 1950s when not many movies were shot in the country Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
The Deluge / Potop (1974) Jerzy Hoffman, Daniel Olbrychski
During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Read More »
Rasputin / Agoniya (1981) Elem Klimov, Aleksey Petrenko
Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the indecisive Nicholas Read More »
Well, Come On, Smile (1985) Leida Laius, Arvo Iho, Monika Järv, Hendrik Toompere Jr., Tauri Tallermaa
Teenage Mari is sent to an orphanage. It’s an awful and unfriendly place to be. Read More »
A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer’s Eve (1981) Janis Streics, Lilita Berzina, Olga Drege, Uldis Dumpis
The struggle of two related families for the eighty-year-old aunt’s inheritance through comic and romantic events. Read More »
Men Don’t Cry / Mehed ei nuta (1968) Sulev Nõmmik, Ants Lauter, Endel Pärn, Leo Normet
A group of sleepless nerds should be taken into sanitarium for hard-therapy. Read More »
The Wrestler and the Clown (1957) Boris Barnet, Konstantin Yudin, Stanislav Chekan, Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Yuriy Medvedev
It’s a story about two of the most famous russian personages. Read More »
The Blue Bird (1976) George Cukor, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson, Ava Gardner
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. Read More »
The Eternal Light (1987) Algimantas Puipa, Vidas Petkevicius, Kostas Smoriginas, Virginija Kelmelyte
Lithuanian countryside in the 1950s. People live with mixed memories of an independent Lithuania Read More »
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989) Kira Muratova
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Read More »