Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

The heroic romance of the profession is in the story about the life of test pilot Yuri Garnaev, who tragically died with his crew while extinguishing forest fires in France in 1967.

Film about the painter Mikhail Vrubel's years in Kyiv, from a Sergei Parajanov script.

A kaleidoscopic living diary of the underground rock scene in Leningrad just before perestroika.

The film takes place in Ukraine during the Civil War. Apolon Shmyguiev is loyal to all regimes and capable of benefiting from any situation. By chance, the man becomes camel's herder and travels on it over Ukraine.

Incredible comedy about the adventures of Oleg Popov, the Sun Clown

Don Zakhar arrives in Turkmenistan to reunite with his fiancée Guiouzel after World War II

1944 Sergeant Vasily Kalina returns to his native village of Pastoron after the hospital. But he does not find the village: retreating, the Germans burned all the houses and mined the fields. The restoration of the economy is led by the former commander of the partisan detachment Grigory Gorovoy. He appoints Vasily as the chairman of the collective farm. Soon Kalina learns that Claudia, whom he loved before the war, considering him dead, married Gorovoy. The current situation is not an easy test for all three...

According to the novel by S. Rodionov, "Cambrian Clay". Investigator Ryabinin is instructed to conduct the case of theft of gasoline. His predecessor, having arrested the Toptunov gas station operator and not providing the leadership with evidence, was removed from business. Ryabinin frees the operator and thereby makes a big mistake: Toptunov is killed, and gasoline continues to flow through a hidden bypass pipe ...

A story about the friendship of Jerboa, Porcupine and Turtle.

A porcupine, a jerboa, and a turtle build a wooden ship in the desert.

The story is set in the 1800s.Elena and Inzarov,a revolutionary Bulgarian ,fall in love.After secretly marrying they decide to join the liberation, but on the eve of departure Dmitry dies. Elena takes Inzarov's body to the Balkans .

The resourceful rural tailor Vincas offers the wealthy but tight-fisted landowner Antanas to lend his impoverished neighbor a couple of thousand rubles and in return get his daughter Agota as a wife with a large dowry. Then Vincas easily persuades Agota to steal the borrowed money from her father and flee to America together...

The teleplay was based on V. Mayakovsky’s poems “You!”, “Listen!”, “Conversation with Comrade Lenin” and other works of the poet.

Events that took place in the capital of the Tajik SSR, the city of Dushanbe in 1929.

A fisheries inspector is killed while on night duty in a small fishing village on the shores of the Azov Sea. The murder draws the attention of the authorities and local residents to the problems of protecting and restoring the endangered nature of the once-rich region.

Follows the preschooler Slavka and his father, a researcher, an avid fan of the lottery "Sport Lotto". One day Slavka brought home a hedgehog, which he exchanged with a friend for a lottery ticket from his dad.…

Employees of the district housing office, Kurikhin and Olovyannikova, extort bribes from those who are legally entitled to receive apartments. They do the same to the family of war veteran Mikhov. When Mikhov, a man of impeccable integrity, finds out that his daughter gave a bribe, he cannot bear the injustice...

Provincial landowner Murzavetskaya, a hypocrite hiding under the mask of piety and virtue, wants to get her hands on the fortune of the rich widow Kupavina.

Joseph, Adolf and Eva Josef, Adolf and Eva. The history of the whole country passes through the history of the inhabitants of a communal apartment in the very center of Moscow.

The film consists of seven short stories about different musical genres, different performers, and music lovers.

Hedgehog and Bear shivered from cold at the leaves strewn yard where shrill and angry wind was blowing. Friends decided to go to an abandoned house, where they found a lot of interesting things. They saw a sheet of paper on which a sunny and hot day was painted. Spreading it, they found summer and after taking the sunbath, Hedgehog and Bear continued their fascinating experiments with the weather.

The film is an emotional story about fateful historical events in the 20th century, which took place in three Baltic countries- Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The story is also about their efforts to regain independence.

Uzbek boy Teylok studies in the 5th grade. His father left the family and Teylok took over the care of his younger brother. The kind and sensitive boy completely abandoned his studies. And when the Fs finally decorated his diary, the boy decided to take on himself.

Doctor Hassan and his wife Tamila live in one of the villages. Their life flows quietly and outwardly peacefully, and no one even suspects that Hassan has long been whetted by a worm of wounded pride — he is offended that his wife's relatives consider him a loser. Hassan dreams of proving the opposite to them. His dreams are supported by a local French teacher who managed to move to Tashkent and find a prestigious job there at Intourist, One day one of Hassan's patients suggests that he start breeding rabbits.

The film consists of K.G.Paustovsky's four short stories about failed love

Everyday life of farmers in mountains

High in the mountains, the forester Aktan lives alone with his mute aunt in an abandoned village. People's lives seem wrong and vain to him. But he likes his own less and less. A collision with people who predationally exploit nature forces Actan to actively interfere in their lives.

The 41-minute documentary directed by Vladimir Yerofeyev, is a 1928 Russian production. 'The Land of the Lion and Sun' has recorded different moments of Iranian people’s social life, the country’s general ambience, women’s clothing in the year 1921.

One day, a little boy looked through binoculars and saw that the residents of the garden were somewhat frightened and worried. He decided to help his little friends. This is a story about a child's boundless imagination, but the director adds elements of science fiction here - and adventures in the country turn into a titanic struggle with alien plants.

Cartoon for school-age children, based on well-known motives.

The writer Bektas-agha, arriving in his native village, remembers his childhood: his mother died early, his careless father, who married the beautiful Kulimbala, the teacher Sagatbai. It was a time of collectivization. Bai and his henchmen, playing on the feelings of people expecting hunger, persuaded the collective farmers to barytma — stealing the herd from the neighbors. The members of the cell offered to punish all the perpetrators, but they made up the majority of the residents of the village. The teacher convinced that it is impossible to punish the people for their darkness, it is necessary to find the instigators. So, overcoming their illiteracy, the resistance of the Bay bandits, the collective farmers gradually improved their lives.

A short film based on motifs from Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš' book "Es stastu savai sievai" (I Tell My Wife).

Two men at a country dacha are having an intimate conversation about life and love. And then She appears.

Based on Belarusian humorous tales about the joker and merry fellow Nesterka.

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

Based on Jafar Jabbarli's play.

After hard booze, Terentiy goes to the river, where he catches and eats minnows alive. Based on Aleksey Tolstoy's short story "Terentiy Generalov".

The main character sits in an armchair in front of the TV and sleeps, and on the screen the House Spirits group sings songs about the need to save water and electricity. The genre of the cartoon is completely uncharacteristic for the USSR: throughout the entire animation not a single line is uttered, but only songs in rock and roll style. The melodies, completely unusual for the USSR, but on topics that were quite relevant at that time, were written by the composer Anatoly Kiselyov. The animation breaks away from Samsonovs mellow oil paint-style developed in the first half of the 80s, with a much more raw and brusque kind of style followed up by the 1988 short 32 December, also a completely rock musical animation with music form the same group as this one.

Based on the novel by Yakub Kolas "In the Vastness of Life". The film is considered lost.

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.

No one will argue that fashion is a terrible force. But it’s bad when people follow it blindly, turning their appearance into a cult.

Anti-nuclear cartoon about a soldier at a nuclear test site. Among other things, the mutating effect of radiation is shown in a bizarre form.

A story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the years before WWII.

The director of the state farm Giant falls in love with a journalist. The heroine’s friend opposes the romance. The journalist demands a lot of attention in the relationship, while the director is too busy with work. The film was completed only in a rough cut but was banned and destroyed. It is now lost. The director was arrested and subsequently spent nearly twenty years in labor camps.

A remote Ukrainian village. A poor peasant, Hryhorii Malynovskyi, wants to expose those who oppose the revolutionary changes in the village - the rich, led by Konstantin Popandopul, who have made their way into the village council and are ruling there. Since poor peasants enjoy certain privileges, the rich in the village council decide to exclude Grigory from the list of poor people. Outraged, Hryhorii goes to the city and writes a letter to the newspaper. Malynovskyi is murdered. The investigator uncovers the murder and the thieves are brought to justice. The film is based on the high-profile trial of the murder of the pro-Bolshevik rural journalist Hryhorii Malynovskyi in the village of Dymivka (later renamed Malynivka in honor of Malynovskyi in Odesa province, now Mykolaiv region), promoted by Pravda newspaper and mentioned by Stalin.

Ivan Lopatin, a Red Army soldier who has arrived in the village, convinces the peasants of the need to insure their livestock and buildings. But a kulak, on the advice of the priest, sets fire to Lopatin's yard. The fire destroys half of the village, and the priest, having quarreled with the kulak, tells the peasants the name of the arsonist. The kulak is arrested, and the peasants receive insurance money. The film ends with documentary footage of M.I. Kalinin's speech to the workers.

An animated film based on the story by Nikolai Ivanovich Sladkov about how a boy brought home a frog he caught in the swamp and placed it in a jar. After the frog almost died in captivity, the boy had to urgently return it to the wild.

According to the custom of pre-revolutionary Moldovan villages, a young girl who had been deceived by a boy could come to his house, climb onto the stove, and refuse to come down until the seducer agreed to marry her. A film adaptation of the story of the same name by M. Kotsyubinsky.

Late at night, the main stage of the old theatre welcomes the Spirit of Theatre, who is keen on keeping ancient traditions alive.

A young man from a Christian family falls in love with a Muslim girl who lives behind the mountains in a village. The girl's relatives believe that according to Islamic tradition, a relationship between them is impossible, and they kill the young man.

Having met road workers, a sports instructor convinces them to sign up in the mountaineering section and begin to conquer the surrounding peaks.

Follows the fate of Colonel Dzandar's two sons, one joined the Bolsheviks, the other joined the counter-revolutionaries.

The film is about man and woman who remembered their childhood. The film reflects atmosphere of Baku. It is an adaptation of Anar Rzayev's "Georgian surname" novel.

Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas attempt to flight over Atlantic ocean.

Based on the short story by Oles Honchar. A budding romance, on the verge of blossoming into love, develops between two young people—Petro and Olga—who are just beginning their independent lives. But an unexpected gunshot in the nature reserve, which kills a swan, shatters the young couple’s potential happiness...