Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

The story of how a father taught his lazy son Hrytsko to work.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Against war / Against Gods / Education / Agitation / Sports and gymnastics / Danger of war.

A businessman and a footballer are murdered before an important football match in Prague. Investigation has to be started.

A documentary about the histoy and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric, and Samoyedic peoples. Speakers of the Kamassian, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Mari, and Karelian languages were filmed in their everyday settings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The footage was shot in Altai Krai, the Nenets Okrug, Khantia-Mansia, Uzbekistan, the Komi Republic, Mari el, Karelia, and Estonia. The first documentary in Lennart Meri's "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno - Ugricarum (1970 - 1997)" series.

The chekist Andrei Kedrin had documents in his hands indicating that the British were preparing an invasion of Soviet Turkestan. A small group of Chekists is sent to the Pamirs, led by Kudrin, to intercept an English caravan with weapons. Kedrin knows the area well, has lived in Khojent for several years, and is familiar with local customs.

Summer of 1941. Mothers and wives of Uzbekistan escort their sons and husbands to the front. They are learning new professions and sending food trucks to the front.

Experimental short.

A chicken dreams of becoming a rooster.

Crowded alleys of the evening park, music, laughter, festive fireworks. And the two are talking about murder or suicide, about the syringe found in the dead woman's hands, about the time when death occurred. These two are employees of the criminal investigation department. They will have to find criminals in a large, busy business city who stole, cheated, and, if necessary, did not stop at murder, removing unintended witnesses or unreliable accomplices from their path.

About the guys from a working-class village who formed a combat unit to help the Red Army. The action takes place during the Bolshevik coup in Kuban.

The daredevil pilot Sergei Belyaev takes a risk flying a plane which is not properly maintained and crashes dangerously, landing in hospital, his plane going up in smoke. The aviation student Galya Bystrova, having a crush with Belyaev, unfortunately tends to imitate him in the air. Later, heeding the advice of the wise headmaster Rogachev, they become experienced pilots. Bystrova is assigned to Pamir, and Rogachev, in love with her, is sent to Sakhalin.

The film mocks the stereotypical image of Caucasians and Georgians. False representations of the Caucasus are satirized: Kakhuri wine flows like a spring on a narrow street of Tbilisi, which is drunk with wine glasses; Barbers shave their clients with a dagger, and if something offends them, they cut them with the same dagger; And A dancing Georgian woman dancing is observing all these without any emotion.

The famous striker of the capital's football team Askar Temirov, having said goodbye to big sports, returns to his hometown to train the regional team.

In the territorial waters of the USSR, the team of a border ship recorded a deviation from the agreed course of a foreign vessel. During the inspection of the incident, it turns out that the offending vessel threw an object overboard. The border guards, with the help of a journalist assigned to them, establish that this is a radio beacon belonging to one of the Western intelligence services. The commander of the border ship Chaika, realistically assessing the threat that such a transmitting device poses to the country's defense, decides to prevent its removal, for which he simulates a breakdown of the ship...

The film is about the gardener who cultivated magic apples which brought luck to people.

An anti-war film about the ability of individuals to prevent war.

The film depicts the complex and interesting process of dubbing a film.

In which Volk and Zayats go skydiving!

Freight forwarder Nadia is about to get married. The product sales plan is going to hell. Nadezhda is allocated a young driver, Ivan, and in the two days that they travel by truck, they have an affair. Who will Nadezhda marry?

The hero of the film novella is a young police officer. However, the film is not about the feats and adventures of the policeman Elyar, who deals with lawbreakers on a daily basis, but rather about the internal struggle of the protagonist to have his own understanding of good and decency. One day, fate brings him together with a nurse named Gulya. It took the hero a lot of patience and kindness before the young woman opened her heart.

While on a business trip to Leningrad, engineer Sergei Gushchin meets a young woman and quickly falls for her. Acutely aware of the age difference between the two, the man decides against pursing the relationship.

Follows a fire in the bunny house and its causes.

This story is about how Olympian Bear re-educated the bull, who didn’t go in for sports

About life and customs in the boyar environment during the reign of Peter I.

Georgian and foreign alpinists make an effort to ascend a high mountain. The weather is inclement making their effort extremely perilous. Every step on the snow-covered trail is precarious. Professionalism, firmness and compassion have far more value than the physical ability.

Poor water carrier Ali saved the moon that fell from the sky. As a reward, she gave him the star of the ruler of the city, but Ali did not want to rule anyone.

The action takes place in the Ukrainian provinces of Austria-Hungary at the end of the 19th century.

During the lunch break, the construction girls invite the pianist Marina to their roof. They talk about their dreams, about happiness. Marina will have her first concert soon. When she returned to her room and sat down at the piano, passersby stopped outside her window to listen to music.

Based on Elar Kuus' story Välek Vibulane, this adventurous puppet film with a popular-science twist takes us to the Stone Age, offering insight into the daily life and human relationships of that era.

Two young men, Aleksey Vasilyev and Pavel Prokhorov, return to their native town after service in Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Aleksey finds out that his bride Nastya became a victim of rape. The rapist is the driver and trusted person of high rank official who uses his position to close the case.

The dramaturgical concept is based on the principle of a monologue. The play takes the form of reflections on issues related to raising children in middle school.

A young veterinarian arrives from the city for his first job at a sovkhoz. The cheerful hippie-like young man clashes with the locals who take him as a stranger. The film is a combination of somber naturalism, lyricism, a dash of naive sentimentality and a deep sense of sovkhoz life in the early 1970s. Based on Riho Mesilane's short story "The Veterinarian's First Week". As Mesilane fled to Vienna at the end of the filming, the film was banned and released 13 years after its completion in autumn 1991.

The friends decide to marry the young veterinarian, Bachuta, and make a list of possible brides, but Bachuta is already in love with Taliko, who works with him on the farm.

The film tells the story of the inhabitants of Nīca and their preserved folk traditions.

The noble wife of a noble husband comes to his ignoble mistress.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: First anniversary of Lenin's death / Smycka of the city and the village: group of peasants visit Moscow / Lenin's effect on peasants and oppressed nations

About the adventures of Kongurji the puppy and his friends.

Lost movie.

A fox was famous in the forest for his cunning and wit. But a boastful rabbit once called himself more agile, which, of course, the fox did not like. And in order to protect himself from unpleasant situations, the rabbit tried to avoid meeting with the ginger rogue. But one day the fox’s funny trap worked...

Of the deminers combing the landscape, a young man walking without a detector finds himself on a mine. Since his companions cannot help him, the young man wants to dictate his goodbye letter to his wife.

Based on the novel of the same name by Karamatullo Mirzoev. A love story told by Tajik filmmakers.

About how the boys of the Kabardian village help adults to raise fleet-footed horses.

Follows the life feat of doctor L.S.Soboleva, who saved people during three outbreaks of the plague.

Against the backdrop of the approaching global threat to humanity - the AIDS disease, threatening to undermine the moral and ethical climate of the USSR and its citizens who lived by the immutable code of the builders of communism, rejecting any moral vices of humanity, the film shows that the "risk group" in the form of drug addicts, prostitutes and homosexuals in the Soviet country not only exists, but its scale is great ... What the heroes of the film themselves, whom Soviet doctors and politicians classified as a "risk group", talk about in this first "revolutionary" video film.

A movie novel about academician Kostromin, whose prototype was Ukrainian scientist V. I. Vernadsky (1863-1945).

The film uses fragments of feature films and materials of the Gosfilmofond of the Russian Federation. In addition to the actors listed above, the following actors tell about the composer: directors Grigory Alexandrov and Ivan Pyriev, songwriters Mikhail Matusovsky and Vasily Lebedev-Kumach.

Based on the amusing Russian tales about a resourceful and cheerful soldier.

A lost Turkmen village in the hot sands of the Kara-Kum desert. The villagers, who toil on the parched land, are forced to go on a pilgrimage to Aman-Durdi-bai. But then four Komsomol interns arrive in the village—a Russian, a Ukrainian, a Jew, and a Georgian. The students from the hydro-technical university ask the Turkmen to organize an expedition to the Timur hills, which block access to water in the desert. One of the wealthy villagers, who has an interest in keeping the poor dependent on him for their water supply, opposes this idea.

Foreign intelligence is trying to establish a spy organization on the territory of the Soviet Union. Their activities will be detected by the security agencies and the enemy will be harmed. the film is lost

The talented teacher Shams arrives in a remote mountain village. He manages not only to establish a normal educational process at the school, but also to have a tremendous moral influence on the students.

A movie about the gas mine workers in the scorching hot desert of Karakum, Turkmenistan.

There was a bear cub in the same forest, named Topchumba. He was mocked by all the animals in the forest for his clumsiness. But one day his dad told him how to become dexterous and skillful.

Humorous tales about the life of a little boy. About how he was born without a father and mother, how he was hit by a snow lying on the oven in his hut, how he walked into the woods being a kid, and the miraculous things he had seen there. In his fantasies he could fly, make friends with birds, climb trees, and most importantly – do it all in infancy and without looking at anyone else. Based on poems by Stepan Rudanskyi.

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

Two fugitives are making their way through the Soviet territory occupied by the Germans. Their goal is to find a partisan unit or cross the front line. One of them is a sixteen-year-old boy, Stepan, a local resident. The other is a Soviet officer who escaped captivity, whom Stepan miraculously saved from death.