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Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Tears Were Falling (1983) Georgiy Daneliya
One evening after a hard day at the office, Pavel Ivanovich Vasin starts to behave quite strangely to family and friends. Read More »
The Lost Letter (1972) Boris Ivchenko
The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella by Nikolay Gogol. Read More »
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965) Aleksandr Gintsburg
A talented inventor who created the machine of unprecedented destructive power is obsessed with world domination. Read More »
Lyana (1955) Boris Barnet, Kyunna Ignatova
Young musicians live and perform in a Moldovan collective. The state awards to 3 boys are secretly Read More »
Dear Yelena Sergeyevna (1988) Eldar Ryazanov
Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna Read More »
An Unusual Exhibition (1968) Eldar Shengelaia, Guram Lortkipanidze, Valentina Telichkina, Vasili Chkhaidze
Back from the war, a promising sculptor Aguli gets married Read More »
White Bim Black Ear / Belyy Bim Chernoe ukho (1977) Stanislav Rostotskiy, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Valentina Vladimirova, Mikhail Dadyko
A white dog called Bim is looking for its owner. It encounters all kinds of people and situations. Read More »
The Fall of Otrar (1991) Ardak Amirkulov, Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev, Tungyshpai Zhamankulov, Bolot Beyshenaliev
This historical epic charts political intrigue among the Kipchaks Read More »
Getting to Know the Big, Wide World / Poznavaya belyy svet (1980) Kira Muratova, Nina Ruslanova, Sergei Popov, Aleksey Zharkov
Mikhail helps out Nikolay and Lyuba by giving them a ride to a nearby construction site. Read More »