Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

An animated film for younger audiences about chickens and a duckling who outsmarted a cunning fox.

A high-mountainous region of Kyrgyzstan. A raging disaster nearly takes the life of a girl named Saltanat, a young zootechnician from a high-mountain collective farm. She is found in the snow and rescued by a researcher Joomart. From him Saltanat learns about plans to turn barren plateaus into abundant pastures. A bold idea fascinates Saltanat. She becomes Joomart's friend and ally in the struggle for the conquest of nature.

Documentary almanac directed by the great cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman about the life of the Soviet capital.

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.

Four women—Redhead, Blackie, May Lily and Irina—survive 1990s Russia by luring wealthy drunks and desperate men into their flat with booze and promises, then robbing and sometimes killing them. Their hulking bodyguard Baban keeps their crimes quiet (and occasionally watches their secret lesbian parties). Even Blackie’s little daughter gets drawn into the fold, peeking through a crack in the wall. Together, they dream of escaping the post-Soviet grime and spending next Christmas in Paris.

Story of the First Indochina War (1946-1954) in which Soviet Union has actively supported Vietnamese side.

The film explores the theories put forward by Soviet and foreign scientists regarding the origin of the Sun and the planets of the Solar System, and discusses research into celestial bodies using spacecraft.

A film about the psychological crisis of a woman in her 40s as she tries to create the illusion of love - looking for herself in love and love in herself.

A story about a countryside detectivean his hunt for the kolkhoz money thief. Based on the Fazil Iskander's novel.

In the first post-war years, Kostya, an orphanage from the Urals, goes to Odessa to visit his aunt.

Interviews with the veterans of the Great Patriotic War and VGIK alumni Grigory Chukhrai, Valentin Ezhov, Rostislav Yurenev, Vasily Ordynsky, Peter Todorovsky, Vasily Solovyov and the writer and a scriptwriter Boris Vasiliev about their war experience and war cinema.

The story of a sage who travels on his donkey and gives people advice. Based on Georgian folklore and the texts of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani.

About Ivan Selivanov - an artist, a representative of "naive art" from the Kuzbass. Director Mikhail Litvyakov met Ivan Selivanov in 1968. Since then, until the artist's death in 1988, their correspondence continued. The film uses letters, diaries, pictures of the artist, shooting different years.

A poetic film about theatre being played to workers of a factory during their lunchbreak.

Based on an episode from Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables".

WWII Propaganda Film

Against the picturesque backdrop of the Volga River, baritone Leonid Smetanikov, People's Artist of the USSR (1987), performs Russian folk songs

Due to a very dry year, the khan ordered the entire young population to go in search of better places and leave the old people at home. All the old people were left to die and only one boy, risking his life, took his grandfather with him, hiding him in a large box. On the road, three times the wisdom of the old man helped everyone, and having learned that it was the old man who helped, the khan ordered his soldiers to take all the old men left behind with them...

A film anthology consisting of adaptations of works by the great Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan, released to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Three friends posing as cadets are tricked into getting onto a training ship. They go camping and become sailors.

The wealthy slave trader Xanthus, who imagines himself to be a great poet and philosopher, buys the slave Aesop, a writer of fables. Soon Xanthus becomes famous, but everyone understands who the true author of his new works is.

About a cheerful, smart Hare and his friends who taught a bully bear a lesson.

A cult of diners, restaurants and an excessive eating prevails in the City of Joy. Different contests are held in cooking the Georgian cuisine. Makro, a famous singer, decides to lend some spirituality to the city of gluttons. For that purpose she decides to set up a gallery of beautiful paintings in one of the city’s restaurants. The owners of the restaurant oppose that decision, but due to Makro’s agility the tenants of the city carry the paintings to the new museum.

The heartrending story of the friendship of a young boy with Black Mountain, an Indian elephant.

The events that take place from the evening of one day, until the afternoon of the next, radically change the life of the family of the elderly writer Zharkov.

1925. Soviet power arrives in the remote Karakalpak villages. During this time, the dzhigit Turumbet and the beautiful Jumagul fall in love with each other. However, after the wedding, the young wife leaves her husband’s home, unwilling to accept the Old Testament way of life of her husband's family. Turumbet, who participates in bandit raids, does not immediately understand the revolutionary changes taking place.

Ivan Perepasov has been serving at the railway station as a pointsman for twenty-two years. It seemed to him that all he could do was run along the arrows, give signals, light lanterns. The shift was coming to an end, Ivan hurried home, where his wife and eight children were waiting for him. Suddenly it seemed to him that he had forgotten, after the passage of a freight train, to throw the switch lever onto the main track, along which the postal train was now rushing. Ivan, in despair, rushes onto the adjacent track and falls under a maneuvering locomotive...

To get rid of the racketeers waiting at the exit of the hotel, the prostitute cleverly puts on a show with dressing up and very successfully finds an escort...

It depicts the story of several Russian soldiers during the World War I and the Russian revolution.

Follows the life of the Russian mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya.

A school boy finds a fallen pilot in the forest during the fire started by enemies.

A tale about how the hippopotamus Topa and the kitten Tutti made a journey to a distant mountain and felt the joy of discovering a great and beautiful world.

The movie is about relations between mother and her daughter-in-law.

On falling in love with Sergey, Natasha gives up studies at a pedagogical institute and accompanies him to a construction site. In a course of time she realizes that her husband is interested only in his work. She leaves him, graduates from the institute and works as a teacher. But Sergey is fired for authoritative style of work and Natasha realizes that she must be near to him in his hour of need.

Gummat, a rural firefighter, lives in one of the collective farms of Turkmenistan. He is a kind, honest, selfless man who has preserved the purity and integrity of his soul until adulthood. He is very conscientious about his duty and trains his team, Besher's son and Shukur's watchman, according to all the rules of fire science.… A flighty neighbor, Gazelle, constantly whispers to him about thieves and grabbers who rob collective farm goods. The good Gummat can't believe it for a long time — until he agrees to look into the barn of the warehouse manager Batman. And then Gummat does everything to expose the fraudster.

1928. Winter. Unprecedented construction of a giant plant Uralmash is getting under way. Rushing time of first five-year plans, incredible enthusiasm, inconceivable raging imagination, and also sabotages, provocation, suspiciousness, denunciation, famine and unsettled domestic life. And people of that time are the same, straight-out, resolute, goal-oriented, and moving towards the aim regardless of their own health. So is a main character a new head of the plant, a former Red Army cavalryman Alexander Bannikov (V.Gaev). He leads construction works as if he is marches into battle. It is exactly the kind of people of whom people say he lives for his work, and how one cant live for his work if at the height of the construction Moscow sends an order to stop it short.

Uzbek young man Rustam, a helicopter co-pilot, is participating in the construction of a high-voltage line in the Alps. One day in West Germany, where he was sent on a long business trip, the hero meets Uzbek emigrants. The external well-being of the new friends very soon revealed the catastrophic nature of everyone’s destinies. These meetings contribute to Rustam’s spiritual and civic maturity; the hero rediscovers the necessity and significance of his homeland, where his family and friends have long been waiting for him.

The film is about young girl and her first love.

A cinematic interpretation of the poem of the same name by Andriy Malyshko. During World War II, villagers find a wounded soldier and hide him in one of their huts. During a raid, German forces discover this man and stage a public trial—but the villagers won't stop defending him.

Vlad Voiku, a police captain and investigator for particularly important cases of the republic's Interior Ministry, is single-handedly fighting the local mafia. Vlad believes in the power of the law. But over time, it becomes clear that corruption has penetrated into the highest echelons of power. And then Vlad commits a desperate act...

About young Soviet men who fought in Afghanistan and are trying to find their place in a peaceful life. They share their experience with older WWII veterans, talk about their post-war traumas and what they think now about violence. At the moment there are almost 2 years left before Soviet troops withdrawal from Afghanistan.

A boy, after reading about the tundra, deer and northern lights, decided to create a deer out of the snow. As a result, he got a beautiful animal that became alive at night under the shining stars. The boy was sorry that his unexpectedly acquired pet can melt, so he decided to go to distant lands, where there is constant cold. This should help save the life of the new friend.

Captain Alexander Blinov goes on vacation and has to give a package to Lena. Lena is freelance photo journalist who runs from job to job. She also has a long conflicting relationship with her retired neighbor who thinks that people like her shouldn't live. Somehow, Blinov get's involved in that conflict and all other Lena's crazy adventures, and falls in love.

The fate of a young man who went to America to seek happiness, his longing for his homeland and the search for true values...

A 1975 Soviet Ukrainian musical film by Viktor Storozhenko, starring Sofia Rotaru and the Ukrainian vocal and instrumental ensemble Chervona Ruta. The film features the ballet group of the Kyiv Music Hall and the Smerechyna dance ensemble. The film features songs in Ukrainian, Romanian and Russian.

During World War II, an old man, David, living with his daughter-in-law, Maria, while his son is away at war, is being regularly harassed by a German airplane, until one day, when he decides he's had enough.

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

Two friends are fencing together but have a different opinions about sport and a way to achieve victories.

In the 1920s, a young Komsomol member is elected as a shepherd in a farmstead on the Don River. After the kulaks kill the chairman of the executive committee in revenge, the shepherd writes to a newspaper about it.

Musician Stefan meets a young attractive woman Lidia. Stefan is going on tour to Austria, and Lydia, "accidentally" remembering her Viennese acquaintance, asks to give her a souvenir from Moldova. In Vienna, Stefan is met by people who are well aware of his private life and even familiar with his diary. The musician begins to suspect something is wrong, but when his daughter's well-being is threatened, Stefan becomes truly worried...

Young geologist Sergei Nesterov, having returned from the army, intends to continue his work, interrupted by the war, on exploring industrial deposits of Ural diamonds. His enthusiasm surprises his boss, puts his fiancée Varvara in an awkward position, and gives other geologists a perfect excuse to mock him. But he is warmly supported by the district committee secretary Salomatov. Sergei steadfastly pursues his goal and, in the end, finds the richest diamond deposits.

How a sailor on leave participated in the struggle of the village poor against the kulaks. Lost movie.

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.