Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

Soon after the father leaves for the front, the mother dies - and the children are left alone. And then fourteen-year-old Lyubasha takes care of her younger brothers and sisters.

Kittens were playing with matches while at home so their entire house has been put under the fire threat.

Stepan Kochkarin, the chairman of one of the leading Altai collective farms, a former front-line soldier, intends to unite the machinery and personnel of the neighboring backward farms into a single complex on the central farmstead, but not everyone supports him. A number of issues, including his re-election, are postponed until the fall. The harvesting season arrives and the chairman carries out the harvesting in the most difficult natural conditions without losses.

The material of this film review was the performances of the popularly beloved artist during tours and filming, her interviews and rehearsal work of the first half of the 80s of the last century. The film features songs, most of which became hits of their time and remained in Alla Pugacheva's repertoire for many years.

The Bolshoi Ballet performs the Russian fairy tale of a Queen Maiden (Maya Plisetskaya), a stableboy (Vladimir Vasiliev) and a lucky horse (Alla Shcherbinina).

Nature can be generous for rains and at warm times it covers the ground with dew, feeding plants and small insects. But sometimes it is time of drought. At such times you can sit and wait for the mercy of nature, or you can, as is done in this cartoon by insects and a frog, build a system capable of saving all living things around.

Amusing adventures of star pilot Ijon Tichy on planet Interopia where he hunts a giant animal called Squamp. Adapted from Stanislaw Lem's story from his Star Diaries series.

Based on the story "Gabo" by Archil Sulakauri.

The young poultry worker's besties often ask her to watch for them when they go on dates, but one day she doesn't fulfill their request.

In the first post-war years, Kostya, an orphanage from the Urals, goes to Odessa to visit his aunt.

There are a small number of people for whom imagery and symbolism alone are sufficient reason to watch an otherwise difficult film such as this one. In the story, a boy, a woman and a cow seem to be the only survivors of a global catastrophe, except for whoever is following them threateningly in a tank.

A picturesque study of flowers to the music of Scarlatti.

Produced at the start of the golden age of Azerbaijani animation, Akhundov and Efendiyev’s Jirtdan (meaning “small” or “dwarf”) is a magical little treat in which the titular tiny hero and his brothers must outwit the child-eating Div.

One of the most popular and talented writers in contemporary Estonia - Viivi Luik - has always hurt her heart for the fate of her country and people. As a poetess, she maintains miracles, simple and human, through her poetry. In the film Viivi Luik and Jaan Kaplinski make sense of the moments of time.

The animation is based on a Ukrainian fairy tale about an old married couple, who had no children. One day the woman asked her husband to cut down a log and put it in a cradle for a night. The old man did what she had asked him to do. Next morning, a surprise was waiting for them.

Based on the Belarusian folk tale about the struggle of the hero Pokatygoroshek, born from a swallowed pea, with various kinds of evil spirits.

The love story of the beautiful Danko and the forester Anton, their struggle for their love and for the old grove – the beauty and pride of the Carpathian village, where the sound of axes is heard more and more often.

Satire about importance of saving electricity in war times

The fim is about the village driver's mistake.

Philosophic reportage about work of pathoanatomist. Documentary version of Rembrandt’s «Anatomy Lesson».

Based on a poem by Julian Tuwim.

A New Year's story in which mittens help a felt boot to get to the Christmas tree.

Rasim, a young mechanic, meets Surayya and falls in love with her. But he is dragged into Shirmammad's wrongdoings; Shirmammad is Surayya's father and the leader of a gang of poachers. Realising his fault, Rasim tries to convince Surayya to stop trafficking in stolen fish. After a long period of reflection, Rasim becomes aware that he cannot go against his conscience, even for love's sake.

In the 20's an enthusiast radio amateur, Fyodor Lbov, experiments one of the first short-waves radio in the city of Gorky.

A chronicle of the beginning of the century, images and people, are shown while Boris Grebenshchikov performs Vertinsky's romances.

A man prays in a forest to mourn over the recent death of his wife. He is kidnapped by an enemy tribe, leaving his children completely alone. The enemy tribesmen demand payment for his release. Will the man live?

Princess Marusya fell in love with Dr. Toporkov, the doctor who had treated her, but he failed to notice her affection and married a wealthy merchant’s daughter. Several years later, called upon to treat Marusya once more, at last her deep feelings melt his hardened heart... but it is far too late: Marusya is dying.

The parents of thirteen-year-old Andrei went on a six-month business trip abroad and rented an apartment to Nina Korableva, a kindergarten music teacher, to look after the boy. They became friends very quickly.

World War II scattered the Carpathian peasant family of Yaroslava Petrin. She is a dedicated communist, and her husband, son and daughter support OUN-UPA.

A Russian investigator and a Buryat policeman are investigating the murder of a truth-seeking huntsman in the Baikal taiga.

Based on the novel of the same name by I.A. Goncharov, staged by the Moscow Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin.

The film is about the establishment of a kolkhoz (collective farm) in a Kurdish village in Soviet Armenia.

Schoolboy Hrytsko had books that he did not respect and offended. All this ended with the fact that the books ran away from him to the library... What should Hrytsko be like now?

About youth gangs on the streets of Kazan.

A good guy from a prosperous family Gena Rusanov studies at the institute, loves a girl and is ready to get married. The bride is happy and is also looking forward to the wedding. And suddenly something happens to Gena. He starts drinking vodka and very quickly sinks to the bottom. But he is watched by good and sensitive people. They will not let Gena finally perish and will help him to return to an honest and healthy life.

Early 50s. Frosts, unusual for the Black Sea coast, scathered orange trees used for breeding new varieties at the experimental botanical station. There is only one specimen left, and there is nothing to pollinate it with.

The action takes place during the great Patriotic war. Nurse Maret considered the Director of the clinic a decent person, although he tries to remain politically neutral in relation to the occupiers. One day, a severely wounded Communist underground worker, Thomas, was admitted to the clinic. After performing a complex operation, the doctor restored his life. Nurse Maret was nursing a patient. But then the doctor hands Thomas over to the Gestapo. Outraged patients angrily condemn the doctor's action.

The movie is about relations between mother and her daughter-in-law.

Friendship, kindness and genuine efforts to help can greatly change the lives of those around us, making the world a better place. And do not think that there won’t be enough strength; instead you should try to change something you do not like. So, this story tells of two cute chicks that were able to break the evil spell and release a crane.

WIld events are starting to happen to the group of youngsters on an abandoned beach.

A story of a Soviet spy working in France during WWII.

A television play by Konstantin Antropov, staged by the 'School of Contemporary Drama' theater, based on the stories by Vasily Shukshin: 'Grief,' 'How the Old Man Died,' and 'Uncle Yermolai.'

An innovative Soviet documentary film directed by Rafail Nakhmanovich. Most of the film was shot with a hidden camera, and the characters' lines were recorded live without staged scenes. The film tells the story of one of the most successful collective farm chairmen in Ukraine, Oleksandr Myaz, who introduced elements of market relations.

The hero of the film put out the fire. The film is about his heroism.

About a boy who had to answer for his actions on the tenth floor of a nine-story building.

Kingdom of animals is an unknown territory. We are like foreigners in here. We don’t understand the language of this country. They say, once lived a person who could talk to the animals, King Solomon. All peoples have fairytales with animals speaking with each other and with humans. In amazement, we’re looking at the world which considered long discovered. Animal language. It’s not human language, but special, sometimes completely unexpected ways of communication between animals…

At a concert, star tenor Obozhaev hasn’t yet arrived to the theater. Realizing his own greatness, Obozhaev prepares for the concert, but a lost cuff link and a cat cause problems.

A village boy awaits his father's return from the front. Though he doesn't yet know the alphabet, he begins composing letters and enrolls in school early to learn to write. He believes the Moon Witch — a figure from a fairytale — is behind all the misfortunes of war. In his dreams, he battles her on the moon as she casts black letters — death notices — down to Earth...

The first floor takes place somewhere in the Far East. The second floor contains the leaning Tower of Pisa under construction. The third is about love story. The fourth is about money. The fifth is full of dangers. The sixth is about the airplane passengers.

About life and customs in the boyar environment during the reign of Peter I.

The year is 1962. Returning after an important mission, the polar aviation pilot Tagilov saves a young woman, Tatyana, who is stranded on a chipped ice floe. She is a doctor.

The granddaughter of the old man Jagpara Sabira is beautiful, spoiled, cunning. Several young men immediately fall in love with her. They all hope to get a positive response from her and calmly go to the front. Sabira does not openly deny reciprocity to any of them. As a sign of respect, she gives a white rose to the lovers of the horseman. Every horseman, not knowing that Sabira gave the same white rose to everyone else, hopes for her love. But she sends all the horsemen to her grandfather for a final answer.

An animated film based on Janusz Korczak's novel King Matt the First, telling the story of a king who was constantly patronized and reprimanded by his courtiers, whose name was used for selfish purposes by his ministers, and who eventually fled the palace to fight in the war as a simple soldier.

The film is about the rebellion in Ganja in 1919-1920 at the head of Gatir Mammad.

A musical comedy about students and graduates of a theater school - about young people who have just graduated from school and decided to go “to the artists” ... Sergey decides to live his whole life and live his life in a big city. He is going to Kiev! On the way, he meets on the roof of the train Lesik, who actually turns out to be a charming girl named Natasha ...

A tribe of little wooden men lived among the roots of the trees in a dense, over-dense forest, where people almost never appeared. All their years - and they lived a very long time - the little men did nothing, because they did not need to eat, drink, or wear clothes: they were made of wood, and the fiercest frost could not hurt them.