Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

About the prevention of traffic accidents related to violations of the rules of maneuvering by drivers of personal cars.

A traitor to blame for the death of members of a Bolshevik underground organization is finally revealed.

A colourful animation about a red vacuum cleaner that threatens to swallow the whole world.

Anna, the daughter of an elderly owner of Kõrboja farm, is told by her father that if she won't move in their home farm then it will be sold to strangers. But the farm needs also a master, and Anna has been living in town for years. She comes back home and reunites with Villu, her friend from childhood.

Animation short.

The rooster goes to the holiday fair. He decides to buy pants at the fox counter. However, their size does not suit him, they have to be shortened little by little.

An evocative animated film on the life and works of the great Kyrgyz poet Alykul Osmonov.

The kookor is a type of leather flask which has been used by Kyrgyz people for centuries. In this parable, an old kookor finds itself confronted with the realities of modern life and has to make a choice as to whether to adapt or stay true to its essence.

A story about a heroic nurse working for Soviet Intelligence during and after WWII.

The play about the life and love of the great French singer was directed by Boris Shchedrin at the State Academic Theatre of the Moscow Soviet.

A film about teenagers of the 1970s and those whose childhood was scorched by the Second World War.

Short student film based on the Carlos Fuentes' novel, about the last days of an elderly man.

Aquarium Fish of This World is the story of the relationship between the captain and the boatswain, temporarily written off ashore, with a young guy who dreams of becoming a cabin boy.

The film takes place in late 1941 in Transcarpathia. Soviet paratroopers landed on the territory occupied by the Hortists. Of the six, only Olexa Borkanyuk manages to bypass the ambush. However, the Nazis, taking local people hostage, threaten to punish them if he doesn't voluntarily surrender. For the sake of saving the lives of people, Olexa goes to the camp of the enemy. The film is based on real facts from the life of the writer and journalist, Hero of the Soviet Union Olexa Borkanyuk.

Absalom and Gigla had a fight with Beso and after a long run through the mountains they tried to get away from him in an old Zaporozhets. But Beso didn't let them leave: he lifted the light car by the rear bumper and held it suspended for more than a day.

Kyiv, 1929. Shots of the city as it wakes up and its awakening echoes with the lyrical pictures of the rebirth of nature. Kaufman’s attentive camera pauses for a long time on the smiling faces of children, painting a lyrical picture, a confession of love for Kyiv.

The film tells about the aviation holiday in Tushino on July 8, 1951.

This exciting story is about how hard life is for little Baba Yaga when she is only 127 years old! All free time must be spent on learning witchcraft, and this is so boring. She decided to quickly become a real good witch and went to where such little witches are still forbidden to fly - to Mount Blocksberg.

The animation about Stalin’s Great Purge and repression victims.

The film brings back to the screen another page of the underground youth struggle against the fascist occupiers of Moldova — the Romanian Cigurans.

The animated show is crafted based on Hovhannes Tumanyan's fairy tale with the same title.

A musical fairy tale about a Princess who, on her 16th birthday, receives a special gift from the Good Fairy — but the Evil Fairy is determined to ruin everything at any cost.

A play about the Reformation in Germany, a broad religious and socio-political movement in Western and Central Europe of the XVI - early XVII century, aimed at the transformation of Catholic Christianity in accordance with the Bible; about the main ideologists of the Reformation - the leader of the peasant-plebeian masses Thomas Munzer and the representative of the interests of the conservative part of the German burghers Martin Luther.

The film consists of three short stories: "The Runaway Car," "Apollo's Skeleton," and "Night Show."

This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.

Film-play of the Central Academic Theatre of the Russian Army based on A.N. Ostrovsky's play. In a wealthy merchant's house, young beauty Vera Filippovna languishes like a bird in a cage. At the age of 15, she married the rich man Karkunov. Vera Filippovna never loved her husband, but, being a decent young woman, she was a faithful wife to him. Suddenly, the old man, her husband, is about to die and cannot decide whom to leave his fortune to — his wife, his nephew, or perhaps give it all to the poor. The action revolves around this money...

Confessions of a surgeon — this is how readers and critics appreciated N. Amosov's book "Thoughts and Heart". Now he has become the hero of the film himself. How he lives, works, thinks, communicates with colleagues, patients, students…

On the creative collaboration and friendship between the staff and students of a children's music school in Leningrad and organ master Justin Prončketis.

Historical-revolutionary film about the struggle of the Bolshevik underground against the interventionists during the civil war in Odessa, about the participation of children in underground work.

Middle East in the Seventies... Soviet and Dutch officers are stuck together in the UN Observation Station.

Boys Luka and Bacho live and study in a boarding school. Both have no parents. Luka draws beautifully. But when professional artist Gogi Karsanidze adopts him, the boy returns to the boarding school because he cannot live without his friend Bacho...

The action takes place in America, where an unemployed man named Tony, who has come to seek his fortune, steals a large sum of money and meets a young woman at a dance hall. They decide to return the stolen money, only to find the owner murdered. Tony is accused of the murder and imprisoned.

Teacher Anush Stepanovna, her son Artashes, and four puppies they have taken in: Neposedu, Chernushka, Kubik, and Razdan, each have their own personality and unique, amazing story.

Summer, 1944. A military airbase near the very front-line. A young soviet pilot Sergey makes his first practice flight. In the course of this flight he hears a call for help on the radio from Russian pilots, having an unequal air combat with superior forces of the enemy. Sergey rushes to their rescue. His plane gets shut down, and he is taken prisoner. Soon he is taken to a special flight school, where future German aces are prepared and Russian pilots at the wheel of captured Russian aircrafts are used as living targets. Nobody wants to put up with such situation, and they prepare an escape.

Newsreel magazine from December 1951.

Juna Mukhraneli will be assigned to work at a quarry after graduating from the institute. However, upon arrival, she will be offered the position of temporary well foreman instead of a geologist.

A humorous interpretation of Lenin's phrase that, under communism, toilets would be made of gold.

After the death of her mother, little Olya lives alone with her father. One evening, a girl hears her father inviting his beloved girl Sveta to stay with them forever. But she offers to send the girl to a 24-hour kindergarten so that she does not become a burden for them. Olya asks the teacher Varya what this word means? Olya is very attached to her teacher and she would like to see her as a new mother.

A program consisting of individual musical numbers.

A film about conscription in the Soviet army. Mothers in Russia, Ukraine, and Latvia recount the tragic fate of their sons. The film has won awards at international film festivals in Lübeck (Germany), Yekaterinburg (Russia), and Kogoshima (Japan), and has been included in the official programs of film festivals in Cannes (France), Dortmund and Oberhausen (Germany), and elsewhere.

A film based on novels by Latvian writer Andrejs Upīts tells a story about Latvian peasants around the 16th/17th century when they were under the role of several other countries.

In the center of the film is the image of a young officer Andrei Kiselyov, the commander of the acoustics of the anti-submarine ship "Dexterous".

The head of a large family dreams of living his clan and becoming richer every year. Everyone, except for his brother-in-law and his brother Davron, obeys strict order in the house. The niece of the owner, Zarnigor, sympathizes with the rebels in many ways and soon declares to the owner her love for Davron, who wants to live with her as a separate family. At this time, a widower visits a large family and expresses a desire to marry young Zarnigor. The owner, feeling sorry for his niece, refuses, but the matchmakers force him to consent to the marriage, threatening to disclose the family secret.

The imperious old woman Mavra Tarasovna, the mother of the Moscow merchant Amos Panfilovich Baraboshev, is looking for a general groom for her granddaughter Polyxena.

A study of flowers.

Peasant girl Giselle dies of a broken heart after discovering her lover is betrothed to another. She is summoned from the grave by spirits who dance men to death. The spirits target her lover for death, but Giselle's great love frees him from their grasp.

Young investigator leads cases related to drug trafficking, while his boss, connected to the underworld, seeks his arrest.

A day in the life of one not too secured family. The spouses are going to divorce and reconcile connected with this formalities. It is needed somehow to divide the property, deal with the housing. And in addition the nature gives a surprise – a flood.

A tribute to Soviet cameraman Vladimir Sushchinsky, killed in the liberation of Breslau in 1945, featuring his funeral and final footage by fallen colleagues. The film honors the 252 front-line cameramen of the Central Documentary Film Studio, one in five of whom died while recording the war, leaving behind millions of meters of film and hundreds of newsreels as a lasting record of the conflict.

A musical television film based on the play by A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin. The comedy "Krechinsky's Wedding" by Alexander Vasilyevich Sukhovo-Kobylin, written in the mid-19th century, is one of the finest works of Russian drama. The action of the play resembles a card game, where the stakes are Happiness, Life, and Honor. The characters' desire to preserve their dignity and find freedom from the gray everyday life and routine sounds extremely modern. The main character of the play, now in his twilight years, has realized the meaninglessness of his life's journey and is now fighting for at least a small "piece" of simple human happiness.

Five short stories that clearly demonstrate the impact a simple word has on people.

Chiriki and Chikotela are neighbors who have an endless dispute over a small piece of land. Neighbors will eventually reconcile when their children fall in love with each other.

A Cossack wandered in search of a better life, and his lifelong dream was a fast and beautiful horse. He had to meet him on the way a fortune-teller and a swamp waterman, which traded a horseshoe to a bunch of red peppers with the Cossack; and he had to beat the devil in cards and eventually find peace of mind in the family life with a beautiful Ukrainian girl.