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A chronicle of the days of October 1917, which proved decisive for the children from the orphanage who took part in the revolutionary events in Petrograd.

A fable on perpetual motion in nature and the transfer of experience across generations.

The wise poor man who found the money tried to save it. To do this, he had to outwit the greedy gentleman, as well as Khveska, his too talkative wife.

Former hockey players decide to try their hand in another sport - boxing.

Enver and Dondi love each other. But the girl's father forbids her to go to the city to study. Enver leaves for the city alone. She is being forcibly married off to someone else. Dondi decides to go against her parents' wishes and goes to the city to visit Enver...

The character of “Die Fledermaus”, Count Eisenstein, is quietly aging on his family estate. Every year he celebrates the birthday of Johann Strauss with great pomp. This time a luxurious ball will be given in honor of the great composer. Rumors are spreading that the great maestro himself will appear here, but incognito.

Every evening night came to one small town, and with it - peace and sleep. Only the lamplighter did not sleep - he lit up the city. A little owlet helped him light the lanterns - all the same, owls do not sleep at night. And in the morning, the main person in the city - the mayor - made sure that the lamplighter put out all the lights on time - after all, it was already light during the day. In the morning the lamplighter was resting, and the owlet flew to sleep on the roof, and every time he woke Drakosha up. Drakosha was a dragon and lived in a garbage can.

A young and wealthy widow, Maritsa, is a tempting prize for fortune hunters in search of a rich bride. To scare off all the suitors once and for all, Maritsa randomly invents a fiancé’s name. But it turns out that a man with that exact name actually exists—and now he’s happily rushing to meet his “bride.”

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The pride of the repair plant, a striker, an order-bearer, one day suddenly inquired about his home affairs and discovered that not everything was as well as he would like it to be. His son works without having finished school. He dropped out of school a month before receiving his diploma without his parents' knowledge, he wanted to go to the nautical school. There is a huge competition. But he works without a soul, but for a check mark in the characterization. The son became a stranger to his father. In a different way alien to the father's eldest daughter, a mannequin. She loves married, dating him for two years, and he still does not want or does not want to part with his wife. Her father does not understand that she has her own life, forbids her to meet with her lover. And the youngest, not by years independent, childishly trusting and maturely reasonable tells her father his mistakes. And it is she who helps her father to understand his guilt before the family.

Andrey Yarchuk, the foreman of the collective farm construction team, leaves for the city after Marinka, who was sent by the collective farm to study at an agricultural institute. After learning that the villagers are mocking Andrei, Marinka is transferred to the correspondence department and returns to the village. However, pride does not allow Andrey to return. Lovers will have to go through many adventures before they meet in their native Kohanovka.

The satirical short movie about traitors of Soviet Ukraine who mask their betray for "wishing for Ukraine's independence" through the history since 1918 up to modern times. Was considered lost, but was found in Latvian film fund in the year 2025.

Partially lost.

The NEP era. Two families with the same surname, Ivanov, live in Leningrad. They are visited by American relatives, who turn out to be confused. Ivanov the draughtsman's unsuccessful plan to rob the American is replaced by cooperation, as a result of which the American finds a job at Volkhovstroy and decides to stay in the USSR.

A satirical cartoon about electricity wasters.

Screen adaptation of the story of the same name by Anna Paityk.

Three candidates for deputies of the republican and local Soviets are awaiting the election results. There is a heated discussion between them about the present and future of Russia. And voters, contrary to all forecasts and expectations, gave the party boss a ride in competitive elections and elected...

The story of Marshal Vasily Konstantinovich, a dedicated Red Army commander who was killed in Stalin's "purges." The film attempts to study the fate of the country through his biography, and unlock the riddle of the show trials of the thirties.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Connecting city and country, south and north, summer and winter, peasant women and worker women / Emancipation of women in the USSR

About the careful attitude to bread.

The incessant self-transcendence of man.

Two military men, who live in the neighborhood, lack the past battles and exciting events. And they manage to avoid routine. For example, one uses his ability to control cockroaches, and the second pushes his army of flying insects against the first one. A crushing battle begins.

There is only one animal living in the zoo - the giraffe. No one but the little girl goes to see her. To attract visitors, the director of the zoo orders an advertising giraffe. But then it turns out that people are only fascinated by artificial giraffes, they are not interested in a living animal. The general "giraffe boom" begins. The film ridicules the fascination with "mass culture" not from the real and the living, but from the imitation and the artificial.

A film report produced on Aleksandr Medvedkin's Kino-train, addressing the problems of living conditions in the October Mine in the Krivoi Rog region - a mine that, according to Medvedkin, was so improved by the experience of the kino-train that it subsequently became the most successful mine in the region.

A documentary about the first Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR. The song “Moscow Nights” was written by the composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy to the lyrics by Mikhail Matusovsky especially for the event and later gained fame all across the country. In the movie it is performed by Vladimir Troshin, a Moscow Art Theatre actor.

Stepan Stepanovich fumbles in the engine of his car. A sociable little girl with a doll in her hands talks to him, and he learns from the girl that some kind of drama is going on in her house, because mom and dad urgently sent their daughter for a walk because a mysterious uncle in a white raincoat appeared.

Two ordinary boys, brothers Paul and Peter, rescue two little dogs from the evil Kaspar Schlich.

The manifestation and fireworks on the 1st of May, one of the ritual celebrations of Soviet times, as a gathering of tired participants of a mass scene falling into pieces without the director's orders and without any aims.

The continuation of and adventures of Krosh and his friends.

It's a story about how adults passed on their bad moods to each other, and only a little girl managed to stop the chain reaction.

Animation short.

Animation short.

Madina in a trance for a loved one commits a crime, goes to prison, and then in the women's prison.

A collection of cartoons based on fairy tales of the northern peoples of the past years: "The Ugly Duckling", "Royal Hares", "The Enchanted Boy".

The heroine of the film leaves her husband, who does not allow her to study, takes her child with her and goes to medical school.

Twenty-seven years after the war, former radio operator Dina Aleksandrovna reunites with her comrades in an attempt to establish the true cause of the death of the commander and commissar of her partisan unit.

Boston. In those distant times, when virgin forests were still rustling on the site of today's Washington, when proud and free Indians gathered at the wigwams, on the site of which New York and Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco are now piled, a settlement already existed here on the Atlantic coast of America. called by the people who founded it - Boston.

Early documentary about the Moscow metro: the early project, the development and the people working on it.

During WWII, the film's protagonist, Maxim, retreats with his troops and leaves a red house in one of Ukraine's villages. Years later, Maxim, now no longer a soldier but an agronomist, returns and settles in the same house. He falls in love with a girl named Dusya, whom he recognizes as the girl who brought milk during the war.

Few people know that Komitas wrote letters to the singer, pedagogue Margarit Babayan for ten years from 1905 to 1915. Some of those letters were the basis for creating this film.

Surreal philosophical animation from Russia

A story about injured Soviet Army officer who joins resistance group in Slovakia during WWII.

A story about the soldiers of Soviet punishment battalion during WWII. Month of service in a punishment battalion was equated to ten years in prison...

Young engineer is fighting against conservatives who don't want to find new oil deposits.

The film is about the stepmother who tried to be a real mother of a boy. But she could be a real mother only after some difficult events for her and child.

About the Komsomol members' struggle for the improvement of railway transport.

A girl from a tiny mountain village with narrow, walled-in streets and steep, slippery paths lost her mother. Her childhood, spent in her aunt's house, was marked by hunger and poverty. When a tax collector from the powerful and cruel Azizkhan (played by G. Niyazov) arrived in the village, her aunt had no money to pay, so she gave up her niece. And they brought Azizkhan a herd of five goats, a couple of calves, and a thin, frail girl named Nissi, who was destined to become a concubine. The girl decided to run away or perish...

The newsreel "Pioneerism" is dedicated to the theme of youth and childhood.

There is a very fine line between magic tricks and miracles…

An emergency occurred at the school. An elderly, distinguished teacher suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized after an article was published in the newspaper containing unfair accusations against her. When a new teacher arrived in the tenth grade, one of the students decided to restore justice.

The film is about the life of a White emigrant returning to Soviet Russia.

In the autumn of 1943, a factory school was set up in one of the rear towns to train turners. Teenagers evacuated from different cities who lost their parents during the war study and work here. The boys are helping the front with their selfless work...

Based on Carlo Goldoni's play.

Maria Alexandrovna, a teacher in a boarding school, is already under forty, and now she finally gets the opportunity to arrange her personal life. But the person with whom she wants to connect her life lives far away, and she will have to part with her sixth grade - the children with whom she replaced her parents. Children behave differently in this difficult situation - from altruism to inner protest and even risking their lives in order to keep their beloved teacher ...