Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

18th-century Turkmenistan. By the will of the rulers of the Khanate of Khiva, the once-blooming land was turned into a desert. In order to unite the scattered nomadic tribes and make his people independent, the elder of one of the tribes, Khodjanepes, secretly travels to St. Petersburg to seek help from Peter I. The tsar, who was interested in strengthening the southern borders, sent Prince Cherkassky's expeditionary force to Turkmenistan, but he made a grave mistake. After listening to the Khiva Khan, who had heard about Khodjanepes's visit to the Russian capital, the tsar divided the expedition into two groups, giving Khodjanepes an excellent opportunity to deal with his soldiers.

How to find a solution to the conflict acceptable to the disputing parties.

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...

Throughout her life, Aleksandra has done hard physical work, believing in God and the imminent end of human suffering. Shura, 64, works at the top of the ash hill of the North-Eastern Estonian coal mine.

The film is about the young people just finishing school.

Gogui and Omar flee in suburban trains to sell pornographic photographs. With no other perspective than to survive each day, the two outcasts transform their convergence of circumstance into a camaraderie that may rescue them, if the world does not interfere.

Based on A.P. Chekhov's story.

About the life and work of People's Artist of the USSR, composer Murad Kazhlayev.

A film by Vsevolod Pudovkin. Experimental reel later worked into "A Simple Case (1930)"

A love story of young Altynay and young Asake. Having graduated from the college, Altynay returns to his native collective farm in the Tyan-Shan highlands. Lovers are going to get married. Ashirbay, Asake’s father, is planning a wedding as soon as his son heads the collective farm. But unexpectedly, Altynay is elected as chairman. The girl, contrary to the ancient customs of the highlands, vigorously takes up business. She does a lot of good deeds within a short period of time. Everyone began to respect the young chairman. Only Ashirbay harbors a grudge. And once, when in a blizzard he overtook a flock of sheep, he decided to lead the sheep to the abyss. Asake, accompanying his father, saves the collective farm flocks of sheep, and he perishes...

Satirical miniatures for adults.

An extraterrestrial tries in vain to establish contact with scientists on Earth. Unfortunately the first human he meets is Akimych the forester who doesn't believe in miracles.

Based on the fairy tale by Keria Kurbannepesov "Kongurja's Tale"

A teenage boy attempts to raise a wolf puppy in his remote home village, despite backlash from the local people.

Simple, unremarkable guy living an ordinary life at the intersection of roads leading into the village to the cemetery, to the airport. Maybe it determines his fate.

A judge is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with his new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry for his father and sympathizes with his loneliness.

Starks returned after the conclusion of, met with his youthful love Tanya, who has a daughter Nelia over the years. Starkova acquaintance with the girl made him a different look at the relationship with Tanya and "ex-boyfriend".

How a dog, a horse and a cat became friends.

A fairytale about a little boy and his policeman friend who are saving the princess from the dragon.

About the extraordinary adventures of the young scientist Vasya Osokin and his invention – a chocolate dog named Tyuti, designed for joint space travel.

A poetic feature film about Estonian nature, briefly about cities, industry and agriculture.

A cinematic portrait of the actress and performer Vija Armane.

The small village "Besh-Kempir" is to be relocated — a reservoir is to flood this area. And although the people are somewhat apprehensive about the relocation, they imagine how they will live as a community on a single street

There is only one animal living in the zoo - the giraffe. No one but the little girl goes to see her. To attract visitors, the director of the zoo orders an advertising giraffe. But then it turns out that people are only fascinated by artificial giraffes, they are not interested in a living animal. The general "giraffe boom" begins. The film ridicules the fascination with "mass culture" not from the real and the living, but from the imitation and the artificial.

A story about the events that took place in the Konykov family. The mother of the family, Marianna Denisovna, ignoring the wishes of her family members, tried to arrange their happiness according to her own will. All her efforts ended in complete failure.

In May 1808, the fortress, renamed Sveaborg, surrendered to Russian troops and, together with the fleet and fortifications, went to the Russian Empire.

A railway controller and his sweetheart live in peace next to the railway tracks. Out of nowhere, an umbrella flies into their life.

The film is dedicated to the boys who grew up during the war. The main characters are the milkmaid Bahar and the village postman Merdan. They are not even nine years old, but they know that every day they live and every good deed they do brings them closer to Victory Day and the day their fathers return.

This war drama tells the story of a unique operation carried out by the Red Army's tank corps. It focuses on the military skills and heroic deeds of the tank crews.

About the first days of Soviet rule in Tajikistan. Since ancient times, the people of the small Pamir village have been reclaiming patches of land from the mountains for crops. There was only one person in the village who did not know poverty and sorrow, the world-eating kulak Pir Karim-sho. The son of Karim-sho - Shamba fell in love with the daughter of a poor man, the beautiful Sabina. But Sabina dreamed of a friend whom she did not know, but who would bring her love and happiness, not wealth. It was then that the rumor spread that poor Sabina, who had abandoned her rich husband, was insane. But the day came when the border guards, the first representatives of the Soviet government, arrived in the village.

A little man nicknamed Parasolka got tired of rainy gray days. It made him get leave faster and, like thousands of his countrymen, fly away from paved roads and busy city close to the sea. He will have not only delight, but also all the charm of a resort crowded by vacationers. Will the crowds of tourists constantly surrounding Parasolka prevent him from enjoying his free time?

After years of being imprisoned a man returned to his lithuanian village trying to live with his daughter Irena and struggling to arrange with life in the Soviet Union.

About the first steps of Soviet diplomacy at the international conference in Genoa in 1922.

After the novel of the same name of M. Avdiyev and A. Donets. The film is about first operations of National State Security.

A story about a toy horse named Marusya who found something she truly loved to do.

The film focuses on the grilles, patterns of cast iron gates in the city of Saratov.

Based on the fable written by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, animation tells a story of a cat and its student lion and why the cat did not teach lion how to climb .

Based on the eponymous play by P. Malyarevsky about the Leninsk events of 1912.

The parable of a wasted life is a new interpretation of an old fairy tale.

Everyone has to be ready to appear before God, or it is irrevocably too late. My Lord. Save our guilty souls. Do not desert us. According to the short statement by the artist.

On the poem of Emma Moshkovskaya.

Documentary on actor Georgiy Millyar.

Soviet Scientist Petrovich pioneers the way to the Sun, but his spacecraft is never heard from again. Later, Andrew's laboratory investigates means of protection from deadly radiation. Andrew repeats Petrovich's journey, and offers his life to rescue an orbiting science laboratory, which holds the solution to the problem.

The legend of the Suram Fortress.

In this episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin travels through one of the most famous and visited cities in the United States, the "pearl of the West Coast" - San Francisco. Many centuries ago, the inhabitants of ancient Hellas said that the one who was not in Athens was a blockhead, and the one who visited there and did not admire the city was a donkey, and the one who voluntarily left it was a camel. This is how Americans feel about San Francisco. Indeed, the city is very beautiful, steeply descending to the coast of the Pacific Ocean, it makes you admire yourself...

Colour documentary about Lithuania in 1937-1938 by Motūzas Brothers is made for Lithuanian community schools and youth organisations in Canada to show Lithuania's life before the Soviet occupation in June 1940. It shows the Lithuanian countryside, cities and towns, architecture, people's daily life, the most important events of 1937 - 1938 years.

Realizing that his quest for knowledge is quixotic, a Russian polar explorer prepares for a doomed expedition to the Arctic. A live performance for Leningrad Television.

Cartoon about how Parasolka protected the girl from bullies, and showed himself a true knight.

Late USSR, Almaty, polygamy, freedom and conventionality of life

On this day, Svetlana, a textile worker, turned 30. She is waiting for the arrival of friends and relatives. But here comes a man whom she did not expect. This happened several years ago. Svetlana was a student, Vladimir was a graduate. They got married and had a son. But soon Svetlana realized that this marriage was a mistake of youth.

The main idea of film can be expressed in a proverb: together it is cramped and separately it is boring.

A commissioned animated film based on the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky.