Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

The wise otter saves the hunter who falls into trouble.

Lovers Edgar and Lucia dream of happiness, but Lucia's brother Henry is preparing her marriage to another man. He forces his sister to sign a marriage contract and enter into an open fight with Edgar.

A penetrating and psychologically subtle story of one separation and what remains after it. How much a letter, which never saw the light, meant in the life of a loving couple? The palette of the human senses comes alive with graceful images. The beauty of the figure, a variety of techniques and mesmerizing melody of musical accompaniment subdued the jury of Animated Film Festival in Minsk in 1987, in Czechoslovakia and in Kyiv.

A group of boys are hunting for treasure supposedly hidden in a ruins of the old marble house.

A fairy tale about a magical stork who punished a rich man for greed and thanked the boy for his kindness.

The first and second chapters of "Eugene Onegin" performed by Sergei Yursky, filmed live for Leningrad Television.

Two officers of the Red Army find themselves in a struggle against foreign intelligence agents.

A historical film about the struggle in the 18th century of the young ruler of the Kuban Khanate, Fatali Khan, who sought to unite the scattered khanates into a single Azerbaijani state.

An anxious cat, immediately engaged in a flurry of stressful morning activities, works himself into a nervous breakdown.

A televised play based on the novella of the same name by Boris Vasilyev.

A circus arrives in a provincial town. Without any malicious intent, the local kids steal a trained bear named Gavrila from the circus to set him free...

After the war, the instructor of the district committee Kolychev comes to the village of Usachyovka, which was burned by the Germans, in order to help people move to new lands. But not everyone wanted to leave their homes. Many flatly refused to leave. The coming spring thaw cut them off from the outside world. But the impending famine and the first peace days of spring brought everyone who remained together, among whom was Borka, the son of a fleeing policeman

After the novel of the same name of Vidadi Babanli. Rashid, a young man, fails the entrance exam to the Institute and started to live by independent life, about people round him.

About the history and traditions of the Kabardian people, formation and transformations in the land of Kabarda.

An adventures of a young boy after taking a wrong turn on his road to home...

"Though not given a New York showing until 1935, V. I. Pudovkin's Mechanics of the Brain (Mekhanika Golovnovo Mozga) was written and directed by Pudovkin in 1926. A full year in the making, this scientific documentary concentrates on the behavioral studies conducted by Prof. Ivan Pavlov. The laboratory dogs used in Pavlov's research don't seem too happy about it, and as a result this film might be hard to take for the more sensitive viewers (the vivisection sequence is particularly rough). The progress of the research is detailed with charts and graphs, hardly the "cinematic" touches one might expect from Pudovkin. Interestingly, Mechanics of the Brains was released two years before the results of Pavlov's studies were printed in book form."

The action takes place in the early 1930s in the fictional Asian state of Gulistan. The construction of railways in the country is hampered by a strong foreign state. Under the guise of a “saint from Mecca,” a saboteur-provocateur arrives in Gulistan. Carrying out the will of his masters, he incites the people to hostility against any progressive actions in the country, preparing an uprising with the aim of causing foreign intervention. But the Gulistans expose the “saint”; their faith in the USSR is unshakable...

After years of being imprisoned a man returned to his lithuanian village trying to live with his daughter Irena and struggling to arrange with life in the Soviet Union.

A lion cub lives on a distant island, in which his friend, a monkey, is sick. In order to cure the ailment, the lion cub covered the monkey with leaves and gave him a coconut milk, heated on the fire. But the wise parrot advised a miraculous way - linden tea, which has a magnificent golden hue. But where, among the palm trees, take the linden-tree?

A film-concert based on the poems and stories of Alexander Yashin.

The biographies of the heroes of the painting - residents of the Arkhangelsk region - some of whom remained in their native village, while others, disregarding the joys of rural life, went to the city - come together to form the biography of the country.

Two short stories tell about a little bear named Pyatnashka, who learns about the world around him.

Naval officer Klimov returns from a deployment only to discover that his wife has been unfaithful—with Lieutenant Zvyagin. Shocked and disoriented, Klimov strikes his rival in public, during duty hours and on military grounds—a serious breach for which he pays the price. Refusing to explain the cause of the altercation, Klimov is demoted and transferred to the Northern Fleet. There, he must work to restore his reputation as a composed and confident commander…

A thirteen years old Anton escapes home in order to cross the country and get to his brother who works very far away.

Tale about schoolchildren who are preparing for the New Year and lisping goblin who can't pronounce words of children's holiday song.

An anthology of three filmed ballets, two written for the film and the third an abridgment of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake". It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. Filmed in color.

The story of the enthusiasts of the 1930s - the pioneers of the Khibiny and conquerors of the icy tundra.

A former student of a private gymnasium comes to the head master after 18 years to get back the money he once paid for his education.

The Whites enter the city, and they come over to Nadiia for search and seizure. They do not find the package, but they arrest Nadiia. A White counterintelligence officer interrogates her at the house-headquarters for a long time. However, Nadiia is silent and keeps the location of the package in secret, even though they blackmail her and threat her son, her husband and even her common sense.

A young man Sergey is trying to find a truth about the abandoned tomb of the soldiers suddenly discovered during the building of a highway.

A passenger steps off his train during a short stop in a small town called Vernanda in order to buy a loaf of bread. However, the train departs early and the passenger is left to deal with a bread-shaped bomb, strangely behaving townsfolk and an ominous laughter that follows him wherever he goes.

In the distant mountains, in a Serbian village, the occupiers are robbing the population and shooting the rebels. The villagers flee into the forest and form a partisan detachment. The detachment mines the road so that the punitive detachment cannot reach the village. But the partisans do not have Bickford's belt. The bomber faces inevitable death. Young Marko undertakes this task.

A television film about the creative journey of the People's Artist of the USSR Vera Petrovna Maretskaya.

A staging of the play of the same name at the State Academic Maly Theater of the USSR.

Crimea. The middle of the 19th century. A proud and brave jigit Alim Aidamak who cannot put up with the workers’ abuse, works at the leather factory of the greedy Ali-bay. One day he responds in kind. He is fired, but he takes the memories of the beautiful daughter of his ex-master, Sara, with him. Young people went their separate ways. Alim takes the revolutionary path; he and his friends go to the mountains and start an underground struggle. Only his name is enough to terrify landlords, Mirzas and civil servants. Authorities send a Cossack detachment to catch the Crimean Tatar Robin Hood. The adventure film, which reminds an American western, was filmed based on a Crimean Tatar legend, which in 1925 was turned into a play by the repressed Crimean Tatar writer Ipchi Ümer. The shooting of the film under the script of the Ukrainian avant-garde poet Mykola Bazhan began in the autumn of 1925, when the indigenisation policy in the national republics caused demand on the national plots.

The film is about the painful feeling of unrequited love and introduces us to the episode of the life of a young, virtuous and intelligent doctor, who is tired of the monotony of life.

The story of a restless schoolboy and his adventures at the school.

A wistful little “story-spirit” rides the wind to a child’s doorstep and invites her on a whistle-stop tour through the Latvian seasons. Guided by a gentle water sprite, they drift from spring showers and blue-flower meadows to roaring Midsummer bonfires, stormy autumn seas, and snow-bright winter nights. The imagery—pastel cut-out shapes that melt and reform—visualises verses by the poet Aspazija, while Zigmars Liepiņš’s folk-inflected score (sung by Mirdza Zīvere) turns the whole trip into a lullaby on loop: every tale enchants for a moment, then must move on to the next open doorway. In the end the child waves goodbye, knowing the fairy-tale will return whenever imagination cracks the door again.

A small Russian town is prospering, because it's main industry is the chocolate factory. But this kind of prosperity comes at a very high price. Everybody in this town is eating plenty of chocolate, and everyone is suffering from diabetes. There is a thick smell of chocolate in the air, and the local river has brown water, that is filthy with chocolate pollution. So people decided to put an end to their suffering and to shut the chocolate factory down. But the chocolate business is so lucrative, that the factory is expanding, and rapidly increasing the production of chocolate. Conscious citizens are terrified, and an anti-chocolate riot is brewing.

After a car accident Bakhtiyar took the blame for his wife, who was driving the car. But this did not change the bad relationship between them, his wife went to another, while Bakhtiar recovered in the hospital. After the incident it was difficult for Bakhtiyar to trust people. Only Vera, a school friend of his younger brother, managed to give him hope for love…

In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the Russian oil industry on the natives and the lands they inhabit.

Young homeless man Luke is not going to obey the laws established by his homeless colleagues, as well as the arbitrariness of the foreman when he finds himself in forced labor. But only resistance to his own kind does not give Luke anything: without housing and means of subsistence, and, finally, without basic rights to protect the individual, he no longer sees any light in this life.

One day, a chick hatches from a chicken egg that has rolled away from the others. Without its mother nearby, it cannot understand who it is. The little one sets off on a journey in search of its identity.

Asan works as a bulldozer operator on a road construction project. One day, during an explosion, he saves the geologist Krista from certain death...

Investigating the murder, a police officer comes across a circus performer who has a plan for a secret cave where, according to rumors, the valuables of Kurbashi Gayib-bek were hidden in the twenties. But it's not so easy to catch up with the criminal, one of the best participants in the horse attraction...

Leningrad State Drama Theatre's staging of Pushkin's three "Little Tragedies": The Covetous Knight, The Stone Guest, Mozart and Salieri

Romeo and Juliet a-la Romani style.

The District Party Committee nominates Klimov, the headmaster of a rural school, whose main concern was to prepare students for higher education. Previously, he had not been concerned that young people were not returning. And now, from his new position, Klimov must look at the problem of educating future specialists needed by the collective farm in a different way.

The action takes place on the southern outskirts of the country in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. The film tells about the struggle of the Bolsheviks and Kyrgyz peasants against the rich Bais and Basmachi for a better, just life.

A small scooter falls off a truck loaded with toys. After many adventures, the brave little scooter finds its way to a kindergarten, where it brings great joy to the children.

About the first builders of the city of Komsomolsk and their labor.

Propaganda film on the participation of Komsomol members in the restoration of the coal industry of Donbas.