Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

About the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War.

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

Shatalov and "Mani"—the nickname given to Alexei by his fellow cadets—became friends while still at naval academy. Their lives took different paths. "Mani" became a submarine commander. Shatalov, after committing a criminal act of recklessness, served on shore. A career naval officer, he was tormented by the situation. Suddenly, a telegram arrived from distant Kuramoy from "Manya" — his friend was calling him.

The film is set in the early XX century. Three friends of the working of the Ural village - Yegor, Petka and Stickleback - are not on good terms with boys from across the street led by Senka Kozhin. But while they help a wounded revolutionary they meet Senka's father and change their attitude towards Senka who turns out to be a desperate and brave young man.

Animated story about the adventures of boatswain and his parrot.

About a brigade of young female turners who win the respect of the factory team by their labor.

Boris Petrovich, a modest employee of the registry office, selflessly and creatively in love with his work. All his life he wishes his fellow countrymen health, happiness, good luck on days of celebrations, comforts them in days of sorrow, but remains a kind eccentric for everyone, giving many reasons for jokes and bullying. But three times in a row his evil wishes come true, accidentally dropped from his lips, and Boris Petrovich begins to be feared and respected.

Sailor Garkush and minder Nomokonov after the death of the whole team remain on the armored boat N042 together. Fulfilling the order of the command, they blow up the bridge, but find themselves behind enemy lines. In different ways, an infantryman Soloukhin, director of the bank Kozubenko, circus artist Elton and felon Donchak, who escaped from prison, get on an armored boat. Different in character and inclinations, they did not come together right away. Over time, they were united by a common hatred of the enemy, and in the battles with the Nazis their courage, resourcefulness, selflessness were forged ...

A man invites people to a dinner party, but a dream and his forgetfulness get in the way.

An employee of a certain SRI Potapov is a liar and an opportunist. But he does not even know that he is committing low things. It’s easiest to be cruel in life.

An agit-film about the struggle of Ukrainian peasants against the White Poles. A young woman, the daughter of a blacksmith taken prisoner by the White Poles, and a Red commander organise a partisan unit. One scene depicts the capture of a Polish landowner attempting to elude capture. He had been hiding from the Red Army soldiers in a barrel. The peasants nailed the barrel shut and, having inscribed the words: ‘To Warsaw – to Mr Piłsudski’, threw it into the Dnieper. Lost film.

A puppet cartoon about how good it is to be yourself. There is a holiday in the hare grove. The mole is giving away hare fur coats because winter has come and it has become cold. And one stupid hare was always dissatisfied with something: it seemed to him that the others had better fur coats. He chose for himself not a white fur coat, like all the hares, but a red one, a fox one. And this is what came out of it...

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.

The film takes place in 1944 in a Moldovan village that had just been liberated by the Soviet Army. A young teacher creates a school pioneer organization. He is opposed by the school principal, who is hiding a fascist agent. With the help of a young teacher and his students, police officers manage to neutralize the criminal.

The young music teacher Gulnora Rakhimovna, coming to school, initially encounters indifference to her subject both from schoolchildren and work colleagues. But with his desire to introduce children to the wonderful world of music, he wins the love and recognition of students and respect from other teachers.

A staging of the play by Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Academic Art Theatre.

The first full-length film about the Chornobyl tragedy, filmed in May-September 1986. The authors did not set themselves the task of showing an exhaustive picture of what happened in Chornobyl. They sought to capture the testimonies of people directly involved in the tragedy, the lessons of which have yet to be realized.

Soldier Ivan Varezhkin will tell his story when he helped poor Janym get rid of the slavery of the local rich judge Baytemir and his son, and rescue his beloved camel Gulchatai with her baby camel.

A filmed stage performance by the Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Three miniatures based on short stories by A.P. Chekhov: The Darling Dog, The Wrongdoer, The Groom and the Papa, exploring the absurdity of existence. In each miniature, one of the characters inevitably insists on something that is completely unnecessary for the other.

Sashko and Yulia have been friends since childhood. Sashko grew up in a communal apartment surrounded by post-war poverty. Yulia fell seriously ill during the war. Sashko goes to study in the big city, where he gains his first experiences of independent living in a student dormitory and on a construction site. Later, he meets Yulia again.

There was an island inhabited by turtles. Their king above all else loved all kinds of praise and flattery, so subjects always followed them trying to play along to him. One day he decided to climb very high, using a very unstable structure.

About spiritual sensitivity and human solidarity. A graduate of a medical school is assigned to a fishing collective farm in Glubokoe town.

After a mail plane crashes in the Siberian taiga, two rivals set off along untrodden paths in search of missing money.

Animation short.

Everyday drama from the life of the Svans.

A cinematic portrait of poet Imants Ziedonis.

A cognitive puppet animation for children of the wondrous and harmonic world of bees in the form of a fairy-tale.

The blacksmith Vakula is going to propose to the beautiful but vain Oksana. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at Vakula, because he paints religious art in the village church.

The story is about a girl named Matlyuba, who arrives in the city to pursue her studies. While there, she meets a medical student named Samig and falls in love with him.

In 1943 a group of children are forced to join the partisan detachment in the forests of Belarus.

Vera and Zoya do not live well and are looking for a way to earn extra money. They are offered to clean the dacha after winter. At the dacha they face difficulties in paying for their work. Vera and Zoya react differently to this situation.

The film tells about the fate of a young girl - Lala, her first fragile steps in life, gradually believing in her own strength and finding the right path in life.

Based on the story of the same name by Ivan Kataev.

Having decided to run away to Africa, three Kazakh schoolboys—Arman, Murun, and Temirton—hastily begin studying English and the ethnography of African tribes. They often dream about the heroic deeds their squad will accomplish while defending the oppressed peoples of Africa.

From a bird’s-eye view, the beauty of Minsk is revealed: a city of labor in motion, growing and blooming. The city is a living organism, with cars rushing through its streets like blood through veins, and hardworking people striving to build and beautify their beloved home. Life is bustling everywhere—young and old alike rejoice in peace after the long and painful years of war.

Olya, a second-grader, chose Genka Ogonkov, a difficult teenager, as her counselor, and decided to reform him. She did it well — the orphan Genka turned out to be a good and kind boy.

Based on the fairy tales of Jan Ekholm about the chicken Tutta Carlson and the little fox Ludwig the Fourteenth (from the cunning Larsson family).

A cartoon based on the story "Nello and Patrasche" by Ouida (Louise de la Ramée). About a poor Flemish boy who dreams of becoming an artist and his love for the girl Aloise.

The tiny firefly couldn't find its place in the deep sea until it found itself among others like it — glowing plankton particles.

A lazy farmer Tit takes the only job he can do: being a scarecrow in a field. Original movie is lost but in 2000 it was reconstructed by Nikolay Izvolov based on Medvedkin's script and drawings.

Formerly a squadron commander, the hero worked at the small airfield for many years. Komesk - as his colleagues call him in a friendly manner - is now retired. Every day with his little granddaughter Zaya, Komesk comes to the airfield - and it often happens that the decision of the entire team depends on his word.

About the love of a Belarusian peasant girl Pavlinka and a village teacher Yakim, about the obstacles that stood in their way, about how they fought against them and defended their happiness.

The Civil War. In order to capture Siberia, the White Guards decided to take Yakutia first and captured Jan Krasts's reconnaissance unit. However, the Red Army unit managed to escape. They blocked General Pelov's path and kept Yakutsk under their control until the arrival of the Red Army units...

A lyrical story about builders and a pianist.

A film fairytale about birds living in Estonian forests.

The teacher of the village school Horia, trying to instill in students a love for their land, tells them the legends associated with the ancient belfry. This displeases the headmaster, who did not understand the real motives of the teacher's behavior. The belfry burns down during the fire, leaves the village of Horia. But all that is good and useful that I did Horia is not lost. Remain his students.

War-time satire about the inhumanity of the nazis. Based on Samuil Marshak's play which was extremely popular among soldiers at the front.

Partially lost.

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...

In 1921. With the help of Japanese interventionists, the White Guards defeat a Shaldyba partisan detachment. The remnants of the defeated detachment pour into Levinson's detachment. Partisan intelligence soon finds that the Japanese has surrounded the detachment. To save the main forces from defeat, Levinson decides to break through the chains of enemies.

Animation short.

There was a good blacksmith in the village. Someone decides to promote the blacksmith and appoints a secretary for him. Later the blacksmith gets his substitute and a cashier. There emerges a bunch of the loiterers around the blacksmith.