Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

The collection of TV series based on Albert Maltsa’s stories. Action happens at the time of the Great depression.

A man and a woman are trying to solve a problem that is crucial to their relationship, but their ideas and beliefs have a different vision.

An old woman invades the home of a lonely writer and dies. Soon she becomes his obsession, which is impossible to get rid of.

The action takes place during the great Patriotic war. Nurse Maret considered the Director of the clinic a decent person, although he tries to remain politically neutral in relation to the occupiers. One day, a severely wounded Communist underground worker, Thomas, was admitted to the clinic. After performing a complex operation, the doctor restored his life. Nurse Maret was nursing a patient. But then the doctor hands Thomas over to the Gestapo. Outraged patients angrily condemn the doctor's action.

Once a potter made a pot that could laugh. Whoever takes it in their hands immediately starts laughing.

After release from jail Andrey tries to start a new honest life but not everything is going as planned.

West of Ukraine, 1945. According to the intelligence of the First Ukrainian Front, a special detachment led by Hauptmann Hintze entered the Carpathian region in search of gold for the needs of Germany. In order to get ahead of the enemy, the Chekists recruit a forester. Together with the Chekist Olga, they are supposed to be looking for a place to cut down the forest. In fact, Krapivych is tasked with protecting Olga, who is gathering information about the actions of a German group of saboteurs, which she is hiding in a pursuit squad, and looking for gold ...

The film is about microbiological scientists who are exploring the causes and mechanisms of the action of oncological diseases, looking for ways to fight this insidious and dangerous disease for humans.

Hypnotist and magician David Cheishvili, trying to rescue his son from a petty criminal history, makes some concession to the investigator and helps to get the coveted signature in the testimony of a certain defendant. The hypnotist's abilities are put into use. The trick succeeds and the victim signs under the testimony, but the rules of the game are violated by the investigator himself.

After returning from the army, Sasha learns that Tonya, whom he loves, met another guy, became a mother, is raising a child and works in an oil field in the Gomel region. Sasha goes to the oil field to see Tonya for a possible explanation.

One of the mountain passes of Tajikistan, which is an important strategic object, is controlled by the Basmati detachment of Kurbashi Kerim Dodho, who is respected by the people. The head of the OGPU Paramonov, in order to avoid bloodshed, convinces Kurbashi of the expediency of holding peace talks. However, the counterrevolutionary group, which has its own people in the militia units, is trying to interfere with the negotiations between Paramonov and Dodho, a Bolshevik sympathizer.

A young man is abducted by mafia and forced to work in the underground factory.

A little girl denounce her evil step-father who plotted against the communist movement. The film, under the influence of Russian formalism, has some interesting experimental compositions.

A wolf disguises himself as Santa Clause to fool the little bunny.

Tristan, Henry and Pavlova manage to defeat a flying monster that appeared from a melted iceberg and thereby help people.

A historical chronicle about the history of England during the reign of John Lackland.

Yuri Abakumov, a steelworker at the Centrolit plant in Tikhvin, talks about the profession of a steelworker.

After returning from the army, Rustam easily and naturally fits into the environment of workers from a petrochemical plant. The almost boyish carelessness and irresponsible pastime is replaced by an understanding of one's own need for a common cause, and a sense of inner dignity arises. This is what makes Rustam not reconcile himself to the fact that the brigade in which he works is among the laggards and is characterized by indiscipline. Having become a foreman, Rustam tries to create a healthy working atmosphere, takes part in the fate of Sagat, who recently returned from prison, rejects the attempts of the head of the shop to bribe the trust of the brigade with a "fake" salary. And outside the factory, he acts from a position of active kindness, although sometimes, helping others, he forgets about himself, does not have time to sort out the relationship with his girlfriend Lucy...

Documentary on the 5th World Festival of Youth and Students which was held from 31 July to 15 August 1955 in Warsaw.

A family movie about a friendship between girl and dog.

A crazy documentary about the dawn of occult movements related to the expectation of the end of the world, after the collapse of the USSR!

Life of three friends - Aram, Ruben, and Gohar - who went from Armenia to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) to study just as World War II started. Severe life lessons change the frivolous Ruben.

The director of the state farm Giant falls in love with a journalist. The heroine’s friend opposes the romance. The journalist demands a lot of attention in the relationship, while the director is too busy with work. The film was completed only in a rough cut but was banned and destroyed. It is now lost. The director was arrested and subsequently spent nearly twenty years in labor camps.

In the summer of 1918, the situation in Transcaspia was especially difficult. The Menshevik government led by Funtikov seized power. Only the fortress city of Kushka remains Soviet. The garrison went over to the Bolshevik side. Large reserves of weapons and ammunition are concentrated in the fortress, which especially attracts the Mensheviks and the British who help them. The commander of the garrison, the former tsarist general Vostrosablin, decides not to surrender the fortress. To do this, he and Commissar Morgunov are developing a defense plan. White Colonel Zykov, with the support of the Basmachi and the British, hopes to take Kushka. But the tough confrontation between the parties ends with the victory of the defenders of the fortress.

The sergeant-major entrusts an ordinary missile division to Dedov with a responsible task - making hay for a horse. So a young soldier arrives at the collective farm, where he finds himself in a purely female team, not knowing that he will meet the girl of his dreams here. Sparkling humor and soldier's ingenuity helps Dedov, not only to complete the task, but also to excel in ongoing army exercises ...

The Kinonedelja (Kino-Week) newsreels represent Dziga Vertov's first contribution to cinema.

The play “Zykovs” was written in 1912, during a time of confusion and depression in Russian society, a period of pre-war spiritual and moral decline. The state of the world is depicted here with a single phrase: “there was confusion of concepts”... The film-performance based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky, directed by the Moscow Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin.

Spiritual medium Openshaw is so removed from real life that he confuses a military alarm with a signal from the other world. Father Brown returns the professor to reality and the problems of modern life. Based on the "The Blast of the Book" short story from "The Scandal of Father Brown" stories collection, written in 1935 by Gilbert K. Chesterton.

Village boy Klimko, accompanying his father to the front, stays with his stepmother. In the occupied village, the hero cannot see his friends. Having survived hunger, injuries and loneliness, the boy enters a vocational school - nine kilometers from the village - and works with new friends for the front...

A study on a New Year's theme.

A young farmer, Roin and Irma fall in love, but Roin is drafted into the army. Time passes, Irma gets married to a famous Menshevik, but on the day of the wedding, Roin returns.

Documentary about the St. John's Day festival in Tallinn. Recorded with a hidden camera, the film is full of contrasts and expressively depicts the changes in the traditions of Midsummer's Eve and the emotional impoverishment of city dwellers, showing their behaviour at the bonfires - their loneliness as well as their alcohol-induced exuberant state in big crowds.

Cartoon for kids about a little elephant - the only striped elephant in the jungle. He is walking in the jungle and very much wants to find a friend.

The Red Army enters the city, while the White Army leaves it. There are only two people in the landlord’s estate, an old doorkeeper and a grammar school student, the landlord’s son. The house is taken by the Red Army detachment, and the doorkeeper’s son Andrii, a Bolshevik, is among them. The old man does not share his beloved son’s views and protects the landlord’s son hiding him in the attic.

Lost among the mountains is the small town of Achisai with a mine - the embodiment of the ideal Stalinist paradise.

The action takes place in Russia during the Second World War. One of the heroes - Kryukov - serves the Germans, the second - Eliseev - fights against the German occupiers.

A life of a driver Stephan Chekmenev turns out to be very lucky: healthy children, loving wife, solid loghouse. But once his fellow-villager perishes in a forest. And Chekmenev, considering himself to be the one to blame, in expectation of an imminent retribution, tries to understand: why and when did he, once having so many friends, become so indifferent towards other peoples lives.

1918. "I don't know," he said. Commissar Tokhtar Baitenov leads a detachment of Chekists, which is not numerous. The story of the film unfolds quickly, it is a typical "Ostern" — an oriental action movie: shooting, chase, dancing of beautiful girls, but at the same time, along the film line, there is a smell of mysterious gossip and repression with characters.

1942 Wounded, bleeding, but defiant Sevastopol is subjected to continuous bombing and artillery shelling. It was at this time that, by Hitler's personal order, a giant experimental cannon was delivered to the Bakhchisarai area. An experienced scout Kozhukhar is instructed to contact a group of young underground fighters in Alupka through the partisans and use them to locate the artillery installation. Classified weapons are carefully guarded. The patriots decide to take an exceptionally bold step: at night, they descend along a steep cliff to Bakhchisarai and take the "tongue"...

One of the most impressive symbols of a happy Soviet life, peaceful labour and rich harvest. Being mystified to the highest degree, the film acquires traits of a mystical animal, a human being and just a machine.

The story of a talented woman who dedicated her life to surgery. Patients from all over the country go to her orthopedic laboratory — the doctor’s unique methods of treatment are so effective. However, an anonymous complaint is received by the metropolitan commission. Now experts have to figure out whether Kalinnikova really creates innovative healing techniques...

The film reveals the contradictions between the "educating" teachers and the "educated" students in the school, which is actually an orphanage and a boarding school, where lawlessness, violence, hypocrisy, and cruelty prevail. Forced to live in such contradictory conditions, but unable to adapt to these conditions, little Ahsan, who misses his native home, finds the only way out - he perishes by throwing himself out of the window. The film was shot on the basis of the motifs of Isi Malikzade's story "Nowruz Holiday of Wanderers".

About what Minka and Lelya saw during their walk, trying to sell the galoshes that belonged to the guests of their parents to the rag picker.

The Kinonedelja (Kino-Week) newsreels represent Dziga Vertov's first contribution to cinema.

The life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg.

Every day, at the intersection of streets near a small old pharmacy, janitor Musheg, pharmacist Adamyan, and security guard Gaspard meet. They are all elderly people who lived through the war, during which they lost their loved ones. But the main thing that unites them is their faith in people, in justice, and their ability to come to the rescue when needed.

Ulan follows a sailor whose marriage disintegrates and longs for his younger days on horseback

Lost film.

Guram is the pilot of the helicopter that flies on the Telavi-Omalo air route, connecting this mountainous region with Bari.

The short film was shot by order of the Main Department of Fire Protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.

WIld events are starting to happen to the group of youngsters on an abandoned beach.

About a geology student who came to Mangyshlak Region for field practice, his introduction to work and the team, and his first life challenges.

Short film from Sergei Parajanov, a personal view of the director on the spectacular heritage of Niko Pirosmani (1862–1918), a Georgian primitivist painter.

A Soviet documentary chronicling the Battle of Moscow (October 1941 – January 1942), when Red Army forces repelled the German advance on the capital. Shot by numerous frontline cameramen, it combines harrowing footage of combat and civilian suffering with scenes of Nazi atrocities, framed against themes of Russian heroism and cultural survival. Originally released under the title Defeat of the German Armies Near Moscow, the English-language version, narrated by Edward G. Robinson, was retitled Moscow Strikes Back. The film won the 1943 Academy Award for Best Documentary. Warning: contains graphic images.

The hero of the film, a student of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, is faced with a creative search and the choice of his own path in art. Daily contact with the villagers, access to their spiritual world pushes him to abandon the academy and return to his native village. The second hero of the film – a craftsman, a father of a large family, unlike the artist, is confident in himself, stands firmly on the ground and with his optimism returns spiritual balance to his friend, instills in him the belief that he has chosen the right profession and found his purpose.