Against a rugged landscape and the forces of nature, a group of shepherds, led by the experienced Martia Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Robinsonada or My English Grandfather (1987)
The story, in flashback, of the death of a British Telegraph engineer in Georgia, USSR in 1920. Read More »
Aelita (1924) Yakov Protazanov, Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli
A mysterious radio message is beamed around the world, and among the engineers Read More »
A Night in September (1939) Boris Barnet
The enemies are again trying to prevent the Stakhanovists from working in a new way. Read More »
The Misadventures of the New Satan / 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 (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 / 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 »
Whistle Stop / 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 »
Stray Dogs / Psy (1989) Dmitriy Svetozarov
A group of hunters enters a ghost town in Central Asia with a mission to kill packs Read More »
Men of Novgorod / 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 »