A sarcastic comedy about the Russian-Soviet bureaucracy, based on the eponymous Read More »
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Two in Love / Dvoe (1965) Mikhail Bogin, Viktoriya Fyodorova, Valentin Smirnitskiy, Lina Braknyte
A young musician courts a beautiful woman who refuses Read More »
Walking the Streets of Moscow / Ya shagayu po Moskve (1964) Georgiy Daneliya, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei Loktev, Galina Polskikh
Young Siberian writer Volodya meets Kolya in the Moscow metro in his visit to a famous author. Read More »
Nobody Wanted to Die / Niekas nenorejo mirti (1965) Vytautas Zalakevicius, Kazimieras Vitkus, Regimantas Adomaitis, Bruno O’Ya
1947 year. Armed gangs are still hiding in Lithuanian forests. Read More »
Some Interviews on Personal Matters / Ramdenime interviu pirad sakitkhebze (1978) Lana Gogoberidze, Sofiko Chiaureli, Gia Badridze, Ketevan Orakhelashvili
A journalist realizes that while exploring and writing about the private lives of others Read More »
Goodbye, Boys / Do svidaniya, malchiki! (1966) Mikhail Kalik, Natalya Bogunova, Evgeniy Steblov, Anna Rodionova
Goodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. Read More »
You and Me / Ty i ya (1971) Larisa Shepitko, Leonid Dyachkov, Yuriy Vizbor, Alla Demidova
Came very close to opening in neurosurgery, from which depended the salvation of many people Read More »
The Snow Queen / Snezhnaya koroleva (1957) Lev Atamanov, Vladimir Gribkov, Yanina Zheymo, Anna Komolova
When the Snow Queen, a lonely and powerful fairy, kidnaps the human boy Kay Read More »
A Railway Station for Two / Vokzal dlya dvoikh (1983) Eldar Ryazanov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Basilashvili, Nikita Mikhalkov
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. Read More »
A Cruel Romance / Zhestokiy romans (1984) Eldar Ryazanov, Alisa Freyndlikh, Larisa Guzeeva, Nikita Mikhalkov
Cinematographic adaptation of classical Russian play “Dowry-less” by A. Ostrovsky. Read More »