Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

The little chicken subdues the big animals - the fox, the wolf and the bear - with a cheerful song. "How green everything is, how beautiful everything is... Ko-ko-ko-ko-ko-ro-ko".

One lovely day a young man, a former ballet dancer suddenly finds himself on a pension and begins searching for a new place in life. Fate brings him together with a rather mischievous young day for whom her mother has been trying to find a tutor. Many exciting events begin to take place.

Post-war reconstruction. New residents turn on their first television in their new apartment—a bulky bandura with a tiny screen. On the screen are Tarapunka and Shtepsel, who promise a real revue — more precisely, a tour of Kyiv. But how can you do a tour if you can't see anything from here, Tarapunka reasonably asks. They decide to climb the radio transmission tower.

The Enchantress was Nastasia, aka Kuma, a beautiful young widow who ran an inn and allowed herself to be loved, that's all. The machinations of jealous envious people and hypocrites were woven around her. The viceroy of the Moscow sovereign, Prince Kurlyatev, falls in love with Nastasia. Nastasia rejects the advances of the old voluptuary, and the young Prince, sent by his mother to kill the estranged woman, himself becomes a victim of her charms. Then the Princess, insanely jealous, decides to commit murder... Staged by Gorky Opera and Ballet Theatre in Moscow in 1984

People in Moscow are queuing and missing

In the school forestry, they discover a lair where a she-wolf lives with three cubs. Sheep go missing on a collective farm and the wolf family is blamed for this. But the young foresters are sure that the "wolf" stealing sheep is one of the collective farmers.

Aygün and Amirkhan were a beautiful couple in love. Amirkhan became addicted to alcohol, which destroyed their strong family and caused them great suffering. Suddenly, Amirkhan stopped drinking and had a chance to reunite with his family.

Cartoon for children based on the tale of the same name by K. I. Chukovskiy.

The story of the friendship of a boy and a horse in the bosom of amazing nature. But autumn comes and the boy returns to the big city and its entertainment, forgetting about his friend. When the boy remembered about the horse, it was too late.

A 1943 Soviet war propaganda film by Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. It is Dovzhenko's second World War II documentary, and dealt with the Battle of Kharkiv. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.

About the soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre of Opera and Ballet, the famous ballerina Irina Alexandrovna Kolpakova. The ballerina is shown in completely different situations — she conducts rehearsals, teaches, takes exams at the conservatory, learns English, rehearses numbers from the ballet 'Giselle,' and feels nervous before the start of a performance.

Bombora roams the streets, frightening citizens and constantly breaking lanterns. As a result, the lamplighter Sao becomes so enraged that he decides to leave the city. In the darkened city, chaos ensues; people can’t see anything and are colliding with one another, while no one is left to light the lanterns.

A film about the composer Sergei Prokofiev. Outwardly, the happy fate of the actor in the film seems deeply tragic in essence. By means of fiction and documentary films, the author of the film tries to penetrate into the inner world of the artist, to show the contradiction and tragedy of the creative and human personality. The style of the picture is original, the pictorial range is exquisite.

The parable of the destiny of man (for adults). Material - candles and matches

A goat named Adonis XIV is plied with sugar cubes, has bells tied to his horns, and is trained to lead his herd to the slaughterhouse.

A car accident results in the death of the director of one of the region's leading car dealerships. Vasily Yarosh, an investigator in charge of particularly important cases, is tasked with uncovering the causes of the tragedy and determining its pattern...

Moving people from homesteads to settlements. Families are filmed and interviewed in their old backyards just before they move out.

A group of ten years old is getting ready to a sea travel...

A rework of Boris Sigal's play The Trial of Stepan Korolev. Set in Tbilisi rather than Leningrad is a morality tale about the hazards of alcohol consumption that is nonetheless not without humor.

On a frozen and forbidding shoreline of northern Sakhalin Island, to the north of Japan, live the Nyvkh people, whose austere, heroic struggle for survival depends solely on their ability to hunt the seal and to fish. This blunt glimpse into their quarters, animistic rituals, and daily (and nightly) lives has all the appearance of a well-shot documentary but is in fact a scripted film with convincing special effects, based on a novella of the same title by the gifted and controversial Soviet Kirghiz writer, Chingiz Aitmatov. "Dog running at the edge of the sea" is what the Nyvkhs call the forbidding place they have domesticated as their home, husbanding and speaking of it by means of myths and "poetry of the concrete" with which they commemorate their savage lives.

A guest from the Caucasus is running late for his flight. Desperate to "catch" a taxi, he asks a private driver to take him to the airport. The driver speeds, breaking all conceivable traffic rules, and ultimately gets into an accident.

When Henrikas Šablevičius started filming Lithuanian “oddballs” – a professor, a fortune teller, racers, and many others who fell short of the concept of the “model citizen” – he invented a bizarre new genre of documentary biopic. Characteristic of these portraits is a sense of mocking irony directed not at their subjects (on the contrary, the filmmaker’s affection for them is palpable) but at the “Soviet hero” genre. The subject of this film is Apolinaras, a kindhearted policeman who even outwardly looks very unlike the ideological “guardian of morals.”.

A story about young Annie who's taking her parents divorce very hard.

ΩSixteen-year-old Alexandra was raised without a father. One day, while her mother was away on a business trip, she found an old letter addressed to Mikhail Maximov. Deciding that this was her father’s name, the girl looks up the addresses of all the Mikhail Maximovs living in the city in the address book and sends them letters inviting them to visit her at the same time.

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

Gorky Moscow Art Theater. A play based on the play of the same name by F. Schiller. About the confrontation between Queen Elizabeth I of England and Queen Mary of Scotland.

In 1905 Germany, Evgeny Narezhny, a talented bridge engineer and son of a Russian émigré, rejects lucrative offers to serve Russia. Arriving in St. Petersburg during the 1905 revolution, he focuses on science, believing it can solve global issues, unlike his Bolshevik wife, Elena Chernova. As a renowned scientist, Narezhny is repulsed by capitalism and is forced to reconsider his views on the revolutionaries’ struggle.

A happening with Latvian composer and writer Marģeris Zariņš.

A mysterious man under the name Mister X performs in the circus, playing violin on a chair suspended in the air by ropes. His breathtakingly sad melodies reflect his internal turmoil - he's in love with a noble lady and this relationship is frowned upon in their society.

A man released from prison after serving his sentence decides to visit his son who he has not seen for a long time and spends the whole day with the boy. An adventurous, intelligent boy awakens fatherly feelings in him, but unexpectedly he finds out that the boy is not his son.

One of the five-part documentary series by Belarusian writer and director Viktor Dashuk, which recounts the horrors experienced by the Belarusian people during World War II, through firsthand accounts of survivors and newsreel footage.

The film tells the story of the relationship between two brothers: good and evil.

A parable about love and chivalry in which a mechanical bird sacrifices itself to save a living bird that it has fallen in love with.

It seems that in high school, Gedas, Edma, Arnas and Irma were an inseparable foursome of romantics who gathered on an old barge. Now they are no longer children, but they are not yet grown up.

A fun and educational story about the nature of goodness. It's not just a natural and self-evident part of our lives, but a force that helps overcome many obstacles that come our way in life.

A tsar's youngest son, Ivan, is destined to marry a frog who turns out to be the enchanted Vasilisa the Beautiful. When he breaks her spell too soon and loses her to the immortal Koschei, Ivan sets out on a quest through dark forests and ancient magic to win her back.

The hard work plays an important role in the personal growth of a runner.

The plot is based on events that took place during the severe drought of the early 1970s at the construction of the Toktogul Hydroelectric Power Station. The commissioning of the station's first phase was complicated by the fact that the water needed to start it was also desperately needed by the parched fields. There were many debates (with both personal and professional ambitions involved), and in the end, the problem was solved purely mathematically—rather than by agricultural engineering: salty water from the Kyrgyz Sea was diverted to the fields, while clean mountain river water was directed to the first turbines.

A documentary exploring the childhood of filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein in Riga, examining how the multicultural city and his early encounters with art shaped the future pioneer of Soviet cinema.

An elderly woman reproaches her husband for his carefree attitude. In truth, she is worried about their children, who have moved to the city and no longer write. The husband does not deny her accusations. In fact, he is willing to do whatever it takes to make her happy.

A satirical comedy about the monotonous, boring and largely meaningless life of small officials in a certain provincial town.

Two sworn enemies—geologists with opposing views on life—set off alone through the dense taiga of the northern Urals to the town of Vangur with the aim of confirming the location of valuable titanium ore deposits. However, as fate would have it, they end up in the same expedition group. Not only their own fate is at stake, but also the fate of the entire Union.

The cunning gypsy robs the crowd of gypsy bandits via gypsy aphorisms.

A short documentary on the work of Soviet propagandists in the rural organizations of the Gomel region in Belarus.

An industrial plant pollutes Lake Sevan with discharges. The public demands to close harmful production. The responsible worker, who is in charge of the plant, understands the requirements of environmentalists, but does not dare to conflict with the management.

An animated film that invites viewers into a world of icy expanses and daring discoveries. The adorable penguin chicks Lolo and Pepe embark on a new adventure.

On one of the dull ordinary days of people’s lives, the heroes of the film search for and find a way out of the situation. How does this happen?

The events in the film take place in and around the family of Khosrov Atayev. Khosrov Atayev's wife, Dilshad Khanum, who lives an honest and upright life, is a woman obsessed with fame and money. This moral gap between them, and the mistakes made by Dilshad, eventually put an end to their family life.