Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

The story is based on a play by Ivan Kocherha about love against the backdrop of the craftsmen's uprising in Kyiv in the 16th century. The drama and the animation take place simultaneously in Podil, the center of bourgeois and craftsman life, and on mount Vzdykhalnytsia, where the Lithuanian castle is located. The director Tadeush Pavlenko takes the last three acts of Kocherha's play as a basis, placing the female character Melanka, the beloved of Ivan Svichka, at the center of the plot.

A comic film about traditional Caucasian hospitality.

A man who abandoned his wife and son 20 years ago is forced to deal with the consequences.

Baku, Year 1920. Secret agent of the Emergency Commission Engineer Mammad Rustamov is sent to Berlin with a special assignment. On the pretext of treating his son's illness, Mammad is endangering his life and people around him.

Documentary about East Berlin, commemorating 20th anniversary of German Democratic Republic formation.

A funny musical comedy based on the famous theater play "Servant of Two Masters" by Carlo Goldoni.

Volodya, a man of about fifty, is traveling south with his charming mistress Olya. At the same time, he tells his wife that he is going fishing on Solovki. And she also goes south...to her lover Givi. Having accidentally seen an unfaithful wife, the first couple takes her under surveillance - and the serene love of the heroes takes on an adventurous character.

Based on the work of Yurii Mushketyk "Yasa". The action of the picture takes place in the 17th century, when Ukraine, led by the legendary Ivan Sirko, was defending itself from Tatar raids. A story of Ivan Sirko, the legendary Ukrainian originally from the Merefa county near Kharkiv, who was elected the leader of Cossacks eight times, bravely fought and won 53 major battles.

Based on the book of Viktor Dragunsky "Deniskin's Stories". Once upon a time there lived in Moscow the 1950's an October school student Deniska Korablyov. Every day he was terribly busy with the most ordinary children's activities: he did not prepare lessons, quarreled and put up with classmates, helped around the house and dabbled. He also planned a real murder, crossed paths with the criminal Fantômas, exposed the adult liars and thieves, participated in the selfless rescue of man...

A Ukrainian poet visiting his emigre cousin is threatened into working for the CIA's operations through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

"Mirages of Love" is a Soviet-Syrian film directed by Tolomush Okeyev about the fate of Mani, a medieval oriental master.

The novelette was written by I.Huseynov. In the film, the problem of war is viewed from the perspective of love. Almost all of the men of the village are at the battlefront. The women who stayed in the night and day to support their efforts. Children wake up in the middle of the night, crying for bread. All of the villagers feel anxious for the men to return. Mothers are waiting for their sons; wives, for their husbands and children, for their fathers. When Sayali's husband dies at the front, her husband's friend Jabrayil proposes to her. The people of the village are furious. Jabrayil's brothers leave home, convinced that their family has been disgraced. One brother goesw crazy; the other fall ill and dies. The only person who doesn't blame Jabrayil is the "agsaggal" (the wise old man) of the village - Isfandiyar Kishi. In this film, note single sound of weaponry is heard, not are any battle scenes depicted, yet we still witness the inherent tragedy of war.

Adventures of the medicine professor during reserve duty.

Young man Kesha starts working in the Kindergarten.

A television play by Konstantin Antropov, staged by the 'School of Contemporary Drama' theater, based on the stories by Vasily Shukshin: 'Grief,' 'How the Old Man Died,' and 'Uncle Yermolai.'

The dissolute way of life of Mariya Egorova, nicknamed "Magdalene", abruptly ends - her friend, driving her into debt and putting her "on the counter", taking her passport, through a pimp she knows, offers her to work as a prostitute. During the conversation, Mariya breaks the pimp's head, ends up in the police station, from where she escapes. Now bandits and the police are looking for her, and she urgently needs to find money to buy a passport and leave the city with her daughter.

The story of Marshal Vasily Konstantinovich, a dedicated Red Army commander who was killed in Stalin's "purges." The film attempts to study the fate of the country through his biography, and unlock the riddle of the show trials of the thirties.

"Friends-comrades" is a Soviet cartoon film shot in 1951 by director Victor Gromov. Three comrades, Nakhimov Chizhov, Suvorov Pyzhov and artisan Ryzhov, get acquainted in the Children's Park with a schoolgirl Zina Zhukova, who imagines herself to be a young dancer-future dancer. Zina haughtily refers to the boys, calling them crooks. But everything changes after watching the children's initiative.

A mysterious man under the name Mister X performs in the circus, playing violin on a chair suspended in the air by ropes. His breathtakingly sad melodies reflect his internal turmoil - he's in love with a noble lady and this relationship is frowned upon in their society.

Humoorikas film clip about fashion as a social phenomenon, the various functions of fashion, the relationship between fashion and people today, as well as the quirks and advantages of fashion. What was worn on the body, head, and hands in the 1980s, and how it was all obtained under the conditions of the Soviet era. The fashion illustrations are by artist Mari Kanasaar. The narrator text is read by Jüri Krjukov.

After the end of the civil war, sailor Ivan Ivanov, who dreams of working at the legendary Putilov factory, arrives in Petrograd to build a new life.

The film is about the gardener who cultivated magic apples which brought luck to people.

The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the last days of peace on the riverside before the beginning of the First World War.

The test pilot arrived in his native village disappointed, emotionally traumatized, and physically exhausted. Meeting with people dear to him, visiting places close to his heart, and touching his native soil revived him and restored his strength and self-confidence.

Inspired by the epic poem "Shahnameh" by Ferdowsi. It tells the story of Zahhak, the ruler of the Kingdom of Snakes, who, through cunning and deception, conquers a neighboring state and establishes the cult of the Snake Goddess. Zahhak has two snakes growing from his shoulders that feed on human brains. Each day, a dancer, a devotee of the cult, performs a snake dance in the city square. The person she kisses during her performance is doomed to be sacrificed to the snakes.

The village orphan, Dunyasha first sight fell in love with the buffoon-bully Mitrokha. Love was unhappy, because Mitrokha was rude. For that and was expelled from the village. Dunyasha felt sorry for Mitrokha, and she went after her lover…

A day in the life of the factory director Druyanov, who transformed a once backward enterprise into one of the leading companies in the industry.

An employee leaves the company, lured away by a “competing company”, but his boss doesn't want to let him go at all, not handing over the documents, instead of saying goodbye through the secretary, that he doesn’t want him to leave, and gives three months to say goodbye to them or not. Nevertheless, he leaves, while grossly violating party discipline. A new venture awaits him, there he will be a big boss, an “outsider.” They have high hopes for it, but they are in no hurry to immediately reveal all the features and hidden production problems.

The poor Melnik family lives in Zarasai region. Elder Mary parents struggle to send Marry to school but they did this anyway. The horizons of the girl, who until then had learned only from the old grandfather Peter, are spreading there, she, as if seeing herself in her place, tells the class about the legendary hero of Lithuanian history Grazina. Deprivation prevents Maryte from graduating, so she starts working in a candy factory where she hears political inferences. 1940, Vilnius is returned to Lithuania. Maryte, her best friend Elena and a group of young people in national costumes get ready to walk to the capital. In the periphery, the Bolsheviks remember the land of the rich, distribute it to the poor, and Mary dreams of continuing her studies and becoming a doctor. The dream is interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.

The adventures of two guys looking for a man who left his address book in a telephone booth.

In half a minute, a person who braked at a traffic light has time to look at the screen of a special roadside demonstration device-a movie comic-a "lightweight" version of the creation of the great classic Shakespeare based on the tragedy "Othello". A parable about how modern civilization devalues world culture.

The Voronezh Nuclear Power Plant reactor; Novgorod’s archaeological excavations. Archaeologist Boris Rybakov on importance of historical science. Lenin’s Materialism & Empirio-Criticism. The first university dept of natural compound chemistry in the Soviet Union, located in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. Agriculturalist Pavel Lukyanenko develops winter wheat varieties at Krasnodar Research Institute of Agriculture. French physicist Hubert Curien on USSR–France collaboration in nuclear physics. Foreign members of the USSR Academy of Sciences: Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Niels Bohr; theoretical physicist Igor Tamm on nuclear transformations in planetary & meteoritic matter, study of the Moon in relation to the Earth’s evolution. Dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Sciences. Archival film, photographs, manuscripts, books, interviews from Academy members, explore its role in the development of science, economics, and its prominent figures throughout its history…

About children's participation in the fight against kulaks.

Based on the novel by Yakub Kolas "In the Vastness of Life". The film is considered lost.

On organizing the delivery of weapons to the workers' detachments of Crimea to fight Wrangel. The action takes place during the Bolshevik coup.

A lyrical comedy in three parts linked by a voice-over monologue of the protagonist, telling about three Zhenyas - three lovers, in each of whom he was looking for the dream of his post-war childhood.

At the crossroads of relationships between fathers and children, cities and villages, existing problems are revealed.

A mushroom offers the animals of the forest, an ant, a butterfly and a mouse shelter from the storm. A little rabbit, who wants to hide from the fox, also finds a place with him. The mushroom grows, stretches and stretches as it sees the good will of the other animals to help the hare.

A psychedelic Soviet/Estonian animation short. A hare boy doesn't want to go to sleep in the evening. His mother tries to scare him with a fox, a wolf and a bear, but he is not afraid of any of them. Suddenly, a small mouse appears on the floor - and the hare boy goes quickly under the blanket.

In this farcical dark comedy/melodrama, Lena manages to lose her place at college by virtue of throwing a minor hissy-fit when she catches her erstwhile boyfriend in bed with another girl. Instead of penalizing the boy for his behavior, Lena gets stuck with a court appearance and must pay a small fine, in addition to losing a boyfriend, her college career, and an apartment. Lena belongs to a film club which occasionally hands out awards, and the membership of it decides to send her into the Russian hinterlands to hand out an award to an obscure filmmaker. Throughout the film, Lena has been associated with a bizarre con man named Stepanych who, when his cons fall through, comes to her in the distant town she has gone to seeking her help in committing suicide.

The story of the town of Cardamom and the people there, as well as the only characters who stir up serious trouble.

Two youngsters are leading not so law abiding life and the consequences are tragic...

The film is based on the story of the times of the Kokand khans, the love of the talented young man Anvar for the girl Rano, and their difficult fate.

The Sun did not appear for three days. It rained non-stop. The animals and birds became sad. But there were three brave animals - Duckling, Kitten and Bunny, who decided to reach the Sun and persuade him to go up into the sky and dry up the earth. Based on a Slovak folk tale.

A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Colombia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an informer for the Reich.

Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that provides the title.

The film is based on excerpts from the works of the great Russian thinker Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. The consultants are Doctor of Philology B.I.Bursov, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR V.M.Glinka.

Salim Pulatov, the chief engineer of the irrigation construction site, boldly takes on the solution of an acute production issue, but cannot figure out his relationship with his wife.

Performance of the Lenkom Theater based on the play by M. Shatrov.

After suffering a sunstroke Volk finds himfself in a world of fairytales.

The workday is over. Today, the factory pays out salaries. Andrey Kuzmich Vinogradov, a foreman, also receives his paycheck. He and his wife have agreed to buy an expensive gift for their daughter's birthday, but they lack the necessary funds.

Peasant girl Giselle dies of a broken heart after discovering her lover is betrothed to another. She is summoned from the grave by spirits who dance men to death. The spirits target her lover for death, but Giselle's great love frees him from their grasp.

In 1921. With the help of Japanese interventionists, the White Guards defeat a Shaldyba partisan detachment. The remnants of the defeated detachment pour into Levinson's detachment. Partisan intelligence soon finds that the Japanese has surrounded the detachment. To save the main forces from defeat, Levinson decides to break through the chains of enemies.

Based on stories by Yuri Trifonov. The film consists of three novellas about sports life: "Alesha's Acquaintance," "The Telegram," and "Victory is Awarded..."