Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

A tale about a little hermit crab who was so lonely and sad that the Blue Sea seemed completely gray to him. He sets off on a journey along the bottom of the sea in search of friends.

An animated cartoon about how opposites can find common ground.

A young man Bakhtiyar falls in love with a girl he saw on the TV screen.

Montage of still photos with lighting effects.

Based on the second part of Alexandre Dumas’ trilogy about the king’s musketeers, “The Vicomte de Bragelonne, or Ten Years Later.”

Returning home from school, a village boy saw a military man with a dog. The smart and handsome guard dog immediately attracted the boy. When it turned out that the border guard was taking this kind-hearted creature to a veterinary clinic to put it to sleep, the situation became really critical. The outraged child tried to take the shepherd dog for himself, but it was not at all easy to do so...

Once, in the apartment of a modest designer named Peresukhin, an Unknown figure appears, offering him the chance to become the ruler of the planet Aldebaran. However, in order to transition to another spatial dimension, the film's hero must part with his life by jumping from the third floor. Peresukhin chooses his familiar existence over the temptation of becoming a dictator on a distant planet.

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.

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…

The film is about Russian silent movie star Alexandra Khokhlova. She was the first Soviet blacklisted actress. In her 90es, Khokhlova acts in this extraordinary documentary: she acts herself. Film critics recognised her appearance here as the last and brilliant role of great actress.

A patient in a psychiatric ward believes he lives in the belly of a whale, where he's transported himself to escape from the vulgarity and haste of the modern world.

The Homeland of Electricity, Larisa Shepitko's adaptation of an Andrei Platonov story, was one of three short films collected in an omnibus work (Beginning of an Unknown Era) commissioned to honor the 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution. Censors eventually shelved the film and it would not see the light of day until well after Shepitko's death, during Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika.

A musical movie based on Jack London novels.

A crime has been committed. The worst thing is murder... Who is the culprit? What are the motives for the crime? These and many related questions face police colonel Drobyshev and senior lieutenant Samarin. During the investigation, they encounter young people whose spiritual poverty is terrible in its moral consequences.

The film tells the story of two young people who chose different paths in life.

A remote alert post in the Pacific Ocean. There, tsunamis often hit the shore, sweeping away everything in their path. It is the duty of seafarers to warn people about the impending danger. They must record tremors that can trigger a tsunami, and they are the first to be in danger. Seven sailors are on duty, the peaceful course of which is interrupted by the tsunami that struck the island. There are victims — now it is necessary to warn the mainland about the impending disaster...

A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him, by boat, into captivity across the Aral Sea. A storm strands the two on an island.

A romantic love story about two Soviet scouts—who meet behind enemy lines while carrying out a mission.

A social drama about relationships in the family of the chairman of the Tajik collective farm, Mukhammedzhan Kurbanov: the sons Zafar and Kurban stand on different positions in life. The eldest son wants stability and silence, but the father says there will be no silence, progress does not stand still. Collective farmers in neighboring areas do not fulfill the norm due to lack of water. Young activists develop a plan to irrigate dry land with electric pumps to raise water up the mountains.

Juma Saidov fault of the rich Appanbay got to prison. Years later he returned to his native place and took part in the fight against robber bands. Suddenly it became clear that the leader of the gang Hudayberdi his son, born while Juma was in prison, and brought up Appanbay.

Based on drawings by Ildar Urmanche, the cartoon tells the story about actor who gives people experience of grief and happiness.

The Mischievous Boy — "Shum bola", a film on the eponymous story of Gafur Gulyam about the adventures of a little boy, whose restless character makes him different people and life situations.

A young woman has been murdered in one of the apartments. Prosecutor Babaev goes to the scene of the crime. He must find the killer, Nargiz, and investigate the motive for the crime, together with homicide investigator Yagubov.

Shostakovich’s satirical opera adapted from the classic short story by Nikolai Gogol. Baritone Eduard Akimov leads the cast as Kovalyov, the hapless bureaucrat whose nose has mysteriously gone missing.

In March 1912, in Naples, during the unloading of a large ocean liner at the port, a peculiar accident occurred — one that prompted the newspapers to publish detailed, though rather fantastical, reports...

About the work of one of the greatest masters of Soviet cinema — director Mark Donskoy.

Intrigues are growing in the research institute...

This film is about the administrative center of Georgia, the city of Atlanta, about the social and political problems of its inhabitants.

The adventures of the Soviet pupils. Based on the Yuri Sotnik's short stories.

Luceafarul, a god living among the stars, falls in love with a mortal woman, charmed by her beauty. He promises her eternal love and immortality. Will that be enough to convince hew to leave this world and its pleasures?

A story of a Latvian journalist spying for USSR in Spain during the civil war.

A live-action short based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Engineer McLean, the prince's wife Shirvanskaya and his lover Rumanescu, who came to the Soviet Union, pretend to be circus actors and act to the detriment of the country. Arranged as a worker in the oil industry, Rumanescu steals blueprints of a military invention from the chemist Petrov. Tom Jackson discovers that the circus performer and the saboteur John are one and the same person. Saboteurs, who will be chased by "red devils" and militia workers. They will try to escape abroad, but they will die in an avalanche near the Turkish border.

"Horror" film about the harsh lives of the children living in an outwardly prosperous orphanage. When a young boy dies during a clandestine mutual drug-taking session, his accomplices unsuccessfully try to hide his corpse to evade punishment, and then the orphanage management tries to hush up the whole affair to keep up appearances.

A comic film about careless sportsmen. The last animation of the Brumberg sisters.

The film is based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Hryhurko. The story is about the difficult life of young mechanics working on an irrigation canal in the steppe. Each of them has his own problems: a long-standing enmity, a prison past, family problems, and a complicated love for a single mother with a child. But the difficult remote work in the steppe forces everyone to change their outlook on life.

A young actress before playing in the movie legendary partisan, looking for everyone who knew her character. And suddenly learns that the fearless guerrilla is alive and works as the Director of resort hotel where the film crew stopped. Then follow the exciting meeting of the rising movie star with the heroine of the glorious past and the truth of life…

The dashing mountaineer Zaur kills a Russian "imperialist" thereby becoming an abrek, member of a roving band of outlaws.

A small skater at a skating rink accidentally pushes a respectable man skating with a lady. Fleeing from pursuit, he gets on the running track and is the first to finish. The enthusiastic spectators give him a standing ovation.

Ukraine, 1919. Bolshevik counter-intelligence agents work to stop an uprising by White Russian nationalist-monarchist counterrevolutionaries. A young countess finds herself caught between her family and class allegiance and burgeoning Communist sympathies inflamed by a chance meeting with a handsome young Ukrainian chekist.

A mock-heroic 1798 poem Eneida is magnum opus of the first modern Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky. It's a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotliarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Ukrainian Cossacks.

Movie about inter-generation and inter-person relations

The comedy mocks the vestiges of the past, which sometimes exist among educated people with kind, sympathetic and generous hearts.

After graduating high school Ira Yegorova starts working in the construction...

Anatoliy Trifonov returns home after army service. He meets Raya, chairman's niece, who falls in love, but life takes its own course.

Follows the usual working day of the chairman of the city Executive Committee Ramaz Pavlovich Avaliani. Different people come to his office with different goals, and he tries to help everyone, understand all requests, and resolve all disputes.

In the film, the authors act as researchers of the Thaw era and the generation of the sixties.

The events in the film revolve around the children's railway. Young railway workers have to confront the hooligan actions of a group of teenagers. One of them, Kamil, detained after another attack on an empty railway station, gets acquainted with her boss, Tahir Usmanovich, and young railway workers. Having met with their sympathy, a good attitude towards himself, Camil overestimated his actions and brought his friends to the children's railway.

Autumn 1942. A small group of Soviet soldiers, led by a mountaineering instructor, military journalist and poet Vazgen Petrosyan, will have a difficult ascent: the heroes were tasked with removing the swastika fixed on the top of Aman Dagh...

Documentary film details the mission of the ice-breaker Krasin to rescue the crashed crew of Umberto Nobile's arctic airship Italia.

Realizing that his quest for knowledge is quixotic, a Russian polar explorer prepares for a doomed expedition to the Arctic. A live performance for Leningrad Television.

...Komsomol member Begench, who served in the army, and his fellow villager Vellek, whom they met in the city, return to the village. The kulaks, led by Kuiki and his son Cherkez, run everything in the village. They are turning people against the collective farm, sabotaging the sowing campaign. The Basmachi kill the chairman of the collective farm. Residents of the village rise up to fight. In the battle with the Basmachi, many of them die. Nevertheless, the supporters of the collective farm system are victorious and go out into the field in the spring.