Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

Baby elephant goes somewhere. Everybody wants to know where he goes. It turned out, that he is just hanging around.

A Squirrel, a Bear cub and a Hare were sitting under a tree and looked at the pictures in the book. Suddenly a Squirrel saw an unusual beast on one of them and asked who it was. Misha replied that this is elephant and friends decided to invite him to visit a New Year tree. All their conversation was heard by a Wolf cub, who was skeptical about the fact that someone would come to them. But the kids did not listen to him and decided to write a letter. In the forest came a snowy winter, and the elephant really arrived to them.

In a bustling location, Vukol Ermolayevich Bessudny set up his inn: by day, a hospitable host, by night – a robber and thief. He welcomes wealthy merchants, drugs them with a sleep potion, and robs them on the forest road. Meanwhile, his wife, Yevgeniya Mironovna, waits for her lover, the handsome landowner Milovidov, whenever Vukol goes off on his nightly raids. Vukol's sister, Annushka, is also in love with the young nobleman. The dense forests, harsh customs, merchant bravado, and jealous women… Trouble is brewing!

A tragic story of a family living in Belorussian village in the beginning of XX century

A detachment of Bolsheviks impedes the progress of a punitive detachment through the gorge and prevents it from suppressing a revolt.

An engineer's hotel stay is interrupted by a visit from a stranger.

A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is impossible.

Mikhail and Nyura are getting ready for the wedding. Suddenly, Klava returns to the city, Mikhail’s first love...

The film is about lad who joined the underworld, after coming from Afghan war.

The authors of the animated film devoted it to the eternal theme - the dangers of drunkenness. The main anti-hero is a half-liter bottle that creates trouble everywhere and brings evil to everyone who seeks a meeting with it. The plot in the style of silent films is accompanied by music and interspersed with propaganda rhymes.

On one of the dull ordinary days of people’s lives, the heroes of the film search for and find a way out of the situation. How does this happen?

Seventh-grader Vitya Davydov is sent to a factory for practical training. His mentor, a worker nicknamed Goliath, gives him an assignment, unaware that their relationship is about to become a battle of wits.

A 23-year-old man was tried for choosing poetry as his life's work. His poems and translations were professional. Many people thought so, but not literary officials. It was published sparingly. But in his place could be any talented or simply capable young man who chose the difficult path of serving the muses. Not only then, but now the young have a hard time. Who will take on the role of an arbitrator passing sentence: a poet is not a poet, an artist is not an artist? Maybe the artist has looked into the future, is incomprehensible to contemporaries, is not recognized by them, so what is to judge him?

The young artist, feeling that he is losing faith in himself, leaves the city for the countryside. There he meets amazing people, whose main wealth is the soul, and his moral purification takes place. That's when the truth about man, his destiny, is revealed to him. Love comes to him. He returns to himself...

Agricultural technical school graduate Valya Didenko, having become a production leader and then a people's deputy, fell in love with her patron - the chairman of the collective farm. However, happiness was not destined to happen. Having deliberately violated long-outdated instructions, the chairman was accused of fraud and brought to trial.

During World War 1 a Russian soldier (Pyotr Sobolevsky) serves in Russian Expeditionary Force in France where he is chosen for his marksmanship and trained as a skilled sniper. After the Russian revolution the soldier returns home while his commander (Boris Shlikhting) fights against the Soviet Russia. In 1930 the former soldier works on a factory and also he is the instructor in shooting club. Once the town that is near the Soviet border is attacked by foreign troops (the hostile state isn't named but the uniform of the soldiers resembles Finnish). The character meets againt with his former commander who serves in invading forces.

Two friends are helping the wounded Red Army officer hiding from Whites.

Starks returned after the conclusion of, met with his youthful love Tanya, who has a daughter Nelia over the years. Starkova acquaintance with the girl made him a different look at the relationship with Tanya and "ex-boyfriend".

Episodes from the biography of the young Mozart.

How brothers Colored Pencils and sister Kind Brush defeated the enemies of the multicolored world.

A story about a life of a small village in Western Ukraine during 30-ies.

The heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan.

In the winter of 1941, young cadets from the Red Banner School named after the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR stood on the Volokolamsk Highway, forty kilometers from the capital. The Nazis managed to break through the front line, and the company was surrounded, but the inexperienced soldiers rushed into battle with courage and bravery to defend the capital.

Based on Alexander Griboedov's classical play (1817).

A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.

The boy wants to have a pigeon, but he can't afford to buy a bird. On the market for a pigeon asking for 100 rubles! Then he decides to buy a bird, bartering it for his father's album with stamps. Having caught a pigeon, the boy releases a bird into the sky. But the pigeon is returning to it's native dovecote, to it's former owner, who again demands money for it. This is a short movie about childhood and dreams, about the first life lessons that everyone has to face in childhood, when society and its laws bring changes into life, sometimes breaking the brightest dreams.

Adaptation of a fairy tale Korney Chukovsky. As big and strong animals, succumbing to panic, obey little cockroach.

Reconstructed from archival documents and historical studies, a chronicle of the 1916 popular uprising in the Hungry Steppe and the Jizzakh Steppe.

Eight-year-old Kirill has big problems: he struggles at school, his parents are boring, and he has nowhere to put his lame stray dog. In short, he is at odds with the whole world. Then he meets journalist Vadim, who is easy to get along with and interesting. Vadim's interest is genuine — after all, Kirill is named after his deceased friend.

Brave boys, known as taehniks, embark on a perilous quest to find a long-abandoned copper mine, despite facing numerous obstacles. Their journey takes a dangerous turn when they clash with an illegal claimant to the mine, the cunning hunter Anikin.

A story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the years before WWII.

Zhaukhaz leaves her father's house, as custom dictates and her stepmother wishes. Zhaukhaz does not love her future husband, but she does not dare to break the old custom. Zhaukhaz, along with her husband and his parents, lives in a remote high-altitude pasture. The entire family tends a flock of collective farm sheep. The daily life of the shepherd's family is harsh, and the work is monotonous: cleaning the kennels, feeding the sheep, and, on sunny and quiet days, taking them out for grazing. The winter house is surrounded by silence. Sometimes it seems scary. On one of those days, when she fell in love with a young machine operator from Tanabay's neighboring brigade, Zhauhaz realized how vast life was and how fragile the bonds of old customs that tied her to an unloved man were.

A film about Nastya Filimonova, a young graduate of a river college. Old and experienced captain Yaruga does not believe that Filimonova will be able to cope with her duties. But Nastya managed to prove to everyone that she is capable of being a sailor.

An adaptation of Jesus' life, the film mixes real and imaginary characters, biblical and historical references, to present two worlds condemned to coexist.

A romantic story about the girl working in the musical instruments store.

An angelic-looking but selfish and ruthless young man wanders from crime to crime without the slightest remorse. In the Russian film "Satan," the devil is a delicately handsome young man whose murderous opportunism is too easy to understand. While the film registers shock at its protagonist's absolute amorality, it also presents him as part of a bitterly divided and pessimistic culture. The world of "Satan" is one in which nothing really works, and therefore anything goes.

About the exposure by Soviet intelligence officers of the neo-Nazi organization "Black Knights", which tried to revive the fascist movement in Europe.

The blacksmith's apprentice makes a contract with the devil and exchanges his soul for respect from the most famous people of the city. However, he realises soon that true respect can only be won by hard work. Based on short story by Arkadiy Bukhov.

Film about a Russian Master of Martial Arts, Andrei Khromov (Rostotsky). Based on a true story. A young man travels all over the Eastern republics of the Soviet Union. He is studying various systems of self-defense in order to develop his own system that would make him unbeatable.

Ipolite and Bagrat are competing with each other to buy a pig. Ipolite will win and take the pig home, however pig related adventures don't end there.

Circus artist Yuri Ostashenko, who lost his arm during World War II, returns to his beloved city and manages to return to his beloved profession.

Marina met a charming man at the resort, who gave her an unforgettable two hours of love, which remained with him until departure from the airport. Time passes and Marina comes to Leningrad to visit her prince, but he is not at home. Wandering around an unfamiliar city, she ends up with the police. What awaits a beautiful lonely girl in a huge foreign city?

The events of the film take place during the First World War in 1917 on the Caucasian front. First cornet of the military orchestra Streshnev, not interested in politics faithfully serves his stern commander Colonel Garaburde.

A story about a young fox Ludwig XIV Larsen and his friendship with a handsome chicken Tutta Karlson. Based on Jan-Olof Ekholm book.

The last days of the Great Patriotic War take place in a military hospital.

Based on Heinrich Heine’s poem, this film traces humanity’s longing for beauty and fulfilment, as expressed through a song about the legendary island of Bimini and its magical well whose waters revive a person’s strength and youth.

About the struggle of a Soviet agronomist to create a drought-resistant variety of wheat. His work is hampered by bureaucracy. When excellent qualities of Albidum, as the developed variety is called, receive wide recognition and authorities decide to export it, external market monopolies do everything possible to prevent the export of Albidum. The film is considered to be partially lost as only one seven-minute fragment is known and found.

Bolshevik Tsolak Darbinyan is infiltrated into Dashnak Army as a musician of Army music band. Despite the initial personal conflict with band leader Arsen, he is able to win the friendship of young band musicians including Arsen and to persuade them to back him on the eve of the Bolshevik invasion to Armenia.

A young architect, under the guidance of an old teacher, builds a beautiful building. Wanting to try his hand at a big business, he leaves the master teacher and accepts the invitation of a rich ruler. Fate returns the experienced hero to his origins.

A test mechanic at a tractor plant resolutely opposes defectors and fulfilling the plan at any cost.

Based on the play The Gypsy Azza by Mykhailo Starytsky. The gypsy Vasyl falls in love with the Ukrainian beauty Halia. He forgets his nomadic life, his mother, and the gypsy Azza, and decides to stay in the village for Halia’s sake. Halia, against her father’s wishes, marries Vasyl. But time will pass, and Vasyl will begin to long for the camp.

A funny story about a middle-aged man who ran into a store, bought two pies and ate them while standing in line. When it was his turn to pay, he got into trouble - no one had seen how many pies he had eaten. The head of the section invites the customer to go to the head of the department, and the latter, in turn, addresses the store director. The director suggests that the customer wait until the store closes, when the goods will be removed.

A month after the wedding, the newlyweds began to quarrel. And then a kind but unhappy wizard appeared, whose credo is to make others happy.

A life of eight-grader suddenly changes after he is officially declared genius in his school.

Based on the play of the same name by Georgi Mdivani. In September 1941, lieutenant Ilya Streltsov, who graduated from the flight school, was assigned to the fighter aviation regiment guarding the sky of Moscow. He meets in part the nurse Zoya, with whom he grew up in the same yard and with whom he has long been in love. During the first training flight on the "Seagull", lieutenant Streltsov shot down a German plane and received the nickname "Lucky." Streltsov is jealous of the squadron commander to nurse Zoya, believes that he is finding fault with him. For a whole month he is not allowed to fly sorties. In October 1941, lieutenant Streltsov made his first sortie, he shot down one plane and rams the second. For this battle, he is awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.