Zina is sixteen. She is a manipulative schoolgirl living in a small Russian town among sincere and simple people. Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
The Misadventures of the New Satan AKA Põrgupõhja uus Vanapagan (1964) Grigori Kromanov, Jüri Müür, Elmar Salulaht, Ants Eskola, Astrid Lepa
The way Saint Peter explains it to the Devil who’s knocking on Heaven’s door Read More »
Twenty Days Without War AKA Dvadtsat dney bez voyny (1977) Aleksey German, Yuriy Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Aleksey Petrenko
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. Read More »
Falling Leaves AKA Giorgobistve (1966) Otar Iosseliani, Ramaz Giorgobiani, Gogi Kharabadze, Marina Kartsivadze
A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only Read More »
The Step AKA Sapekhuri (1985) Aleksandre Rekhviashvili, Merab Ninidze, Irina Chichinadze, Levan Abashidze
Alexi leaves the house of his father and stepmother and rents an apartment. Read More »
Whistle Stop AKA Polustanok (1963) Boris Barnet, Vasiliy Merkurev, Yekaterina Mazurova, Nadezhda Rumyantseva
An academician spends his vacation not at a resort, but in a remote village. Read More »
One chance out of a thousand AKA Odin shans iz tysyachi (1969) Leon Kocharyan, Bagrat Oganesyan, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Arkadiy Sviderskiy, Aleksandr Fadeyev
In 1942, a detachment of scouts led by Captain Migunko is thrown into the Crimea occupied by the Germans. Read More »
Stray Dogs AKA Psy (1989) Dmitriy Svetozarov, Sergey Kokovkin, Andrey Krasko, Aleksey Krychenkov
A group of hunters enters a ghost town in Central Asia with a mission to kill packs Read More »
Men of Novgorod AKA Novgorodtsy (1943) Boris Barnet, Evgeniy Grigorev, Olga Yakunina, Ekaterina Sipavina
The story of a French pilot, shot down by the Nazis and falling into a partisan detachment in the Novgorod region. Read More »
Lyana (1955) Boris Barnet, Kyunna Ignatova, Aleksandr Shvorin, Muza Krepkogorskaya
Young musicians live and perform in a Moldovan collective. The state awards to 3 boys are secretly Read More »
Dark Is the Night AKA Odnazhdy nochyu (1945) Boris Barnet, Irina Radchenko, Boris Andreyev, Ivan Kuznetsov
A girl, working in a German commandant’s office, saves two wounded Russian pilots sacrificing her own life. Read More »
Lyumi (1991) Vladimir Bragin, Andrey Shcherbovich-Vecher, Vita Grebneva, Nadezhda Butyrtseva
A tall creepy werewolf-like monster dressed in a raincoat is roaming around in a Baltic forest Read More »
Private Life AKA Chastnaya zhizn (1982) Yuli Raizman, Mikhail Ulyanov, Iya Savvina, Irina Gubanova
A man gets fired from his cooshie government job. He thinks its the end of the world Read More »
City Zero AKA Gorod Zero (1988) Karen Shakhnazarov, Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov
An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow Read More »
The Day the Earth Froze AKA Sampo (1959) Aleksandr Ptushko, Urho Somersalmi, Anna Orochko, Ivan Voronov
Based on Finnish mythology, this movie traces the exploits of Lemminkäinen as he woos Read More »