Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

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 ...

A lyrical story about the people of neighborhood in Tbilisi.

Lost film.

The film’s action takes place in November 1982, on the day of L.I. Brezhnev’s death. Ivan Chashkin, a worker from a Siberian village, is rushing to his mother’s funeral in the Moscow region. The leader’s funeral creates numerous obstacles on the way of the film’s hero…

About the everyday life of lumberjacks who seek solace in vodka, which becomes the cause of many troubles and misfortunes. But the old lumberjacks have their own philosophy and their own outlook on life....

Based on the play of the same name by Sergei Naydenov.

A former boxing champion returns to his native town and takes to drink, but finds the strength to stop: he marries and gets a job at a factory. During perestroika he joins the democratic movement. The authorities declare him a rapist.

How Alyosha rehabilitated a rude man.

Based on the fairy tale "Silver Hoof".

A TV play based on the novel by F.Dostoevsky's "Double. The Petersburg poem". The film uses music from the works of A. Schnittke.

The pharmacist's assistant puts sweets in all the medicines and suddenly he got a wonderful marzipan — March's bread.

A co-production with British Universities Film & Video Council that explores the shared traditions and folklore of the British and Baltic peoples.

Two successful friends, Kadiev and Aglyamov, are watching a historical video and, as the events unfold on the screen, pour out their hearts on modern life. However, after a slight explosion, time turns back - and heroes in oriental robes and turbans find themselves in the center of events of a distant era...

The Bolshoi Ballet performs the Russian fairy tale of a Queen Maiden (Maya Plisetskaya), a stableboy (Vladimir Vasiliev) and a lucky horse (Alla Shcherbinina).

The movie's opening sequence takes place in 1921, towards the end of Russia's civil war, as the Red Army are vanquishing the last Menshevik forces of the White Guard along the western frontier.

Surgeon Alim Sabirov, fearing for the patient’s life, offers his services to Valieva, a protégé of the head of the hospital, who is preparing to defend her dissertation. Due to an unsuccessful operation, the patient dies. But Valieva intends to continue her career in surgery and asks Sabirov to sign a certificate of death, allegedly due to heart failure. The hero does not sign the conclusion and, moreover, begins a decisive fight against the unrest in the hospital.

The prince falls in love with an ordinary girl and marries her. Later, when enemies capture the prince, it's his young wife who gets him out of trouble.

Silent serious people buy weapons. They are taking him by a caravan of trucks through Moscow. One of them changes into new clothes and leaves the others for his beloved girlfriend, who lives in the capital.

The struggle of the Komsomol members against private speculators for the surrender of fish to the state.

Vladmir Bobylev goes on leave for his 60th anniversary. He takes his wife and son and heads for his native town Kholmy, where he stops with his family at his battle comrade, who suggests a trip to their battle places. The old man agrees almost without hesitation, for after the war hes never been there. They get acquainted with German tourists, and it turns out that one of them also fought here as an officer in the Army of fascist general Paulus.

An old woman from Caucasian Mountains goes to the front line do give her sons weapons of their ancestors.

A heroic story about Soviet sailors fighting Nazis during WWII.

The civil war separated families on opposite sides of the barricades. How to understand this situation for a young girl who is being raised by a rich aunt, while her father leads a partisan detachment.

Princess Marusya fell in love with Dr. Toporkov, the doctor who had treated her, but he failed to notice her affection and married a wealthy merchant’s daughter. Several years later, called upon to treat Marusya once more, at last her deep feelings melt his hardened heart... but it is far too late: Marusya is dying.

How animal friends taught a poacher a lesson.

Television play based on the novel by Ivan Goncharov.

12-year-old Sandro, an imaginative, mischievous and philosophical boy, has managed to convince himself and others that he has a gift for finding lost things. His imagination makes the boy's life fun and exciting.

A comedy about the life of a young married couple—Soviet students. Film has not survived.

An American photographer, eagerly anticipating a sensational suicide on a New York skyscraper, was fortunate to receive a report about the hundredth suicide, but whom would be the hundredth and one?

Documentary about preparation for Vostok 2 space mission, launched on August 6 of 1961 with cosmonaut Gherman Titov on board.

The story is about a young fisherman, a pupil of an orphanage, who, due to a curious accident, ends up on the fishing trawler "Dauria" and, thanks to his open and kind character, quickly becomes part of a friendly family of fishermen.

Young pair which doesn’t want to study and prefers to be a burden to its parents.

Based on the novel by Olha Kobylyanska.

Lost movie.

The fate of three friends - Akim, Aigul and Bolat after graduation...

Away from people, animals, forests and fields stood a very tall tree. It did not need anyone, it was completely indifferent to everyone. Once a cat wanted to learn the style of life of the tree, which has allowed her to stay near it, so that she could take over its attitude to everything around. But eventually the cat affects the tree as well...

Based on Jafar Jabbarli's play.

About a bear cub who wanted to become a circus star, but was late for the circus express train because he violated traffic rules.

The film unobtrusively, but rather sadly, reveals to the viewer what it means to love the land, the village, the collective farm and fellow villagers who seek to leave for the city at the first opportunity...

Adaptation of the play by Mykhailo Starytskyi. The beautiful widow's daughter Marusia is in love with perhaps the best Cossack in the village, Hrytsko Shandura, who reciprocates her feelings. However, this love is hindered by the young man Khoma, who is determined to separate the lovers so that he can marry the beautiful girl himself.

After graduating from school in his native village, Zumrad goes to Dushanbe to continue his studies at the institute. Soon she becomes the wife of a young professor Kadyrov. But her feudal husband wanted to lock her up in four walls, forced her to leave the institute. And after the birth of his daughter (and not his son), he became rude, insulted and beat his wife. Zumrad left him. After transferring to the correspondence department, she returned to the village. Not everyone welcomed the woman who arrived with a child without a husband. But kind people helped. Zumrad became a foreman, gained authority. She fell in love with her childhood friend Jalil, and he also reciprocates her feelings.

A gem from Paradjanov's early oeuvre is a musical agitation film or a romantic comedy, made by the young director under the guidance of Alexander Dovzhenko and set in the immense fields of the collectivised Ukraine. The social realism is replaced by colourful, convivial and dancing shots of the “Pabieda” (Victory) kolkhoz, where peasant women sing in the fields, and boys march with banners glorifying revolution. Against this backdrop, intense romantic feelings have reached a climactic stage; tailor Sidor Sidorovich, farmer Jushka and soldier Danila Petrovich all dote on the fair-haired Odarka. It is Jushka and Danila who engage in overt hostility; the initial “gentlemen’s” contest turns into an outright confrontation, resulting in miserable Jushka being increasingly more desperate and scorned by the villagers.

The film depicts the challenging daily life of rural workers.

Sergey Gusev, a thirty years old engineer from Moscow is kidnapped and forced to work in a mine.

This is a story about the love of two people in difficult times of war, about love that overcomes all obstacles, appearing unexpectedly, out of nowhere, taking possession of all the thoughts of the lovers...

Young inspector investigates a murder in small town.

Film-opera based on Tschaikovsky's adaptation of Gogol's story, 'Noch' pyered Rozhdestvom.'

A sweet romance unfolds between two young factory workers who meet on a train and set out to discover their city together before the young woman must return to her flat.

On July 13, 1944, Vilnius was completely liberated from the Nazi invaders.

The plot is based on the fate of the artist, reflected in art, which always accompanies people's lives, as well as dreams, pain or joy...

A story about a king, who one day decides he needs to get to the moon, no matter what it takes.

On the 'class struggle' in rural areas in 1929, when the first collective farms were being established.

A film adaptation of Rodion Shchedrin's ballet staged by the USSR State Ballet Theater.

Marcis Seglins, a retired factory craftsman finds a new hobby - training young workers.