Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

About the football match between the goats and the hares, which ended, despite all the tricks of the treacherous goats, in favor of the little hares.

The famous striker of the capital's football team Askar Temirov, having said goodbye to big sports, returns to his hometown to train the regional team.

Alexander Chatsky returns from three years abroad, hoping to rekindle a romance with his childhood sweetheart Sophie. In the meantime, however, she has fallen in love with Molchalin, her father's scheming secretary. As scandal erupts, Chatsky is met with accusations of madness.

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.

Enver and Dondi love each other. But the girl's father forbids her to go to the city to study. Enver leaves for the city alone. She is being forcibly married off to someone else. Dondi decides to go against her parents' wishes and goes to the city to visit Enver...

Old Kozhabek is going through grief — his son Sultan was killed in a car accident. After a while, Kozhabek finds out that he has a grandson. The hero goes to the city to find a boy and a woman, to whom he is ready to atone for his son's guilt.

Foreign intelligence is trying to establish a spy organization on the territory of the Soviet Union. Their activities will be detected by the security agencies and the enemy will be harmed. the film is lost

A satire on Soviet propaganda based on Mayakovsky's poems.

The performance is based on the play of the same name by Ilya Ilf, and Yevgeny Petrov.

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.

The screen adaptation of Osip Turyansky's novel "Beyond the boundaries of Pain", which is considered one of the best works, depicting the First World War as a hell through which seven people doomed to death, including the future author of the novel, passed.

A cartoon about punished greed.

The story about the life of Shaliapin’s family, and an emotional generalization of the life of people in modern Leningrad.

A criminal-political pamphlet deals with a coup d'état. A young man with a rifle equipped with an optical sight is driving around Moscow in a car, and next to him are two call girls.

A brief history of Russian unofficial art from 1953 to 1988.

A young man, who loses his friend in a strange city goes to his funeral by train. The thoughts about his friend change like a scenery outside his window. The reality mixes with the unreal.

This is a story about a man who brings about the end of the world, which his compatriots greet with joy and merriment. Screen adaptation of Andrei Platonov's story, created by Kyivnaukfilm studio. The animation masterfully conveys the whimsicality of the writer's prose, which exposed the absurdity and horror of Soviet life above all.

Mzago is an adventurous Khevsurian highlander who is fascinated by the radio, embraces changing times and sets off to the big city. Her suitor, Gela, is a less adventurous Khevsurian who decides to follow her.

After the story of the same name of Natig Rasulzadeh.

The film tells a story of Kosynka, a pregnant mare, and her owner, a battered old man. Kosynka leads the “horse walker,” designed to train young horse to walk steadily and at a pace. Set to a soundtrack of Bach and Russian folk music, this film is another example of a parable-like narrative, which became more popular in Soviet documentary in the early 1970s.

The good residents of the fairy-tale paper town began to be harmed by old rusty scissors.

The carpenter recalls youth, plague and love.

An ironic animated cartoon about how a foolish Leopard searched for a home. All the animals in the forest have a shelter where they can hide from bad weather — each of them has a house. Only the Leopard had not acquired a dwelling; his cubs get wet in the rain, and his wife sends him off to find a home. In his search for shelter, the foolish Leopard ends up in absurd and funny situations until he realizes that a home must be built by oneself, not taken from someone else.

A teleplay about the life and work of the first chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov.

The film describes the spiritual quest of a young hero whose prototype is georgian writer Guram Rcheulishvili.

Alter Ego (1989) is a surreal collage of puppets, actors, masks, and inanimate object, to reach deep into the artist’s soul.

Partially lost.

About a group of schoolchildren from a Kazakh aul who swore to one another that they would win the inter-collective farm sports competition.

Based on French fairytales.

Zafar and his sister Yuldus live without a mother, and are raised by their grandmother, since their father is a pilot and is constantly on business trips. From one business trip, father brings Zafar as a gift a bear cub. Zafar begins to train a bear cub, dreaming of making him a circus artist, and starts his studies, so his father forces the boy to give the bear cub to a circus...

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

About the moral corruption of a good manager who fell under the influence of the NEP (New Economic Policy) environment. Partially lost.

A film about Nastya Filimonova, a young graduate of a river college. Old and experienced captain Yaruga does not believe that Filimonova will be able to cope with her duties. But Nastya managed to prove to everyone that she is capable of being a sailor.

In the late 1980s, an era of great hopes and great disasters for Russia, art proved to be a social barometer, predicting the imminent political upheavals. This film's screenplay was written overnight in February 1991, soon after the World Economic Forum, where Olga Sviblova was asked the question, "What will happen to Russia?", and answered: "A putsch."

It's been three years since their last meeting. She is calm, confident and happy because she has a son growing up, their son. She has a business trip ahead of her and she hopes that they will meet again, even if this meeting will be a passing one.

The pharmacist's assistant puts sweets in all the medicines and suddenly he got a wonderful marzipan — March's bread.

A story about a good boy and a shoemaker who wants to do his job, but faces many challenges because of his advanced age. This thoughtful old man takes care of birds, and his good deeds come back to him in caring neighborhood kids who are trying to help the man, making new orders. But will they perform a cobbler’s work well?

The manifestation and fireworks on the 1st of May, one of the ritual celebrations of Soviet times, as a gathering of tired participants of a mass scene falling into pieces without the director's orders and without any aims.

The meat grinder disappeared, the telephone disappeared, the TV disappeared, the tape recorder disappeared. It was schoolchildren who created a mysterious computer from household appliances in the attic of their house.

A military group of alpinists are selected to carry out a secret mission. The fate of humanity depends on their success. The rules of the mission require the death of each participant once his or her task is accomplished. After killing one of their colleagues and splitting into several groups, the alpinists continue their journey. But the human unconscious doesn’t follow military orders. Having once committed murder, the “knights” can’t control their desire to kill. They forgot their mission… and kill each other instead. —University of Pittsburgh

A TV movie about a wounded Azerbaijani soldier who was captured during the WWII.

The continuation of the animation of The Skilfull Master

The Mischievous Boy — "Shum bola", a film on the eponymous story of Gafur Gulyam about the adventures of a little boy, whose restless character makes him different people and life situations.

In 1919-1920, in the events of the revolution. The story of a mother's heart is from the pull and breadth. The strong and rich image of the mother separates from her son, and then boldly loses him, another guy takes her son. She believes that this child will come and replace her son, who will be worthy of her son. The mother tries to raise him as a brave, noble, and kind person, like her own son.

Based on the work of the same name by the Russian writer G. Danilevsky.

An old gamekeeper introduces his nine-year-old grandson Tuyak to the surrounding nature. The boy collects books dedicated to the life of animals. And once, together with their grandfather, they were leaving a crane straggling from a flock.

The crew of a navy boat rescue a bear cub.

Martha, a young teacher, suffers from persecution mania. The phantom of an organization like the KGB arises in her mind and gradually materializes. Fear turns into reality, which drives the heroine crazy.

The poor peasant Artyk cannot achieve his goal: to marry his beloved, the beautiful Aina. Rich Bally has wanted her for a long time. And although Aina likes Artyk, Bally calmly waits for his hour, he knows that his opponent has nothing to pay for. But the lovers decide to escape. Bally rushes after them and drives Aina home. In order to free the girl and take revenge on Bally, Artyk and a friend join Eziz Khan, who opposes the white king. Thus begins the combat path of the poor, not yet knowing their real enemies.

This cartoon is based on a humorous Ukrainian folk song about how wives decided to sell their disgraced husbands. One wife wants to get rid of the reveler, the other - from the drunkard, the young woman is tired of the old man, the worker is lazy, and the tall - the husband is too small in stature.

Made during the rapid industrialisation and collectivisation of Stalin’s Five-Year Plan. Kaufman countered the poverty of the villages with the geometrical rhythm of mechanised factories; militarisation is shown as the next step of the ‘unprecedented campaign’. "The proletariat, having become master of one sixth of the globe, frees the rural working people from the kulak oppression… THE PROLETARIAT …engages the peasantry in a joint campaign for Socialism. This is what the film speaks about".

The heroine, an employee of the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, projects the events of her life onto the stories she studies from medieval manuscripts and comes to very instructive conclusions for herself.

Alik Lolishvili, who lives in old Tiflis, is a very interesting person, he is fond of all kinds of technical innovations and is a tireless fighter for technological progress. He is introduced by Albert Lolisch and advertises bicycles in the city, and then, together with the daughter of the local city rich man Betty Zandukeli, opens an office for the rental of this new car. At first, residents think that Albert Lolish is a rich and successful French businessman who came to provincial Georgia, as well as Betty's lover, who is fascinated by such a dandy. But the bike business is failing, and residents realize that Albert is a real adventurer.

Glastnost and Lithuania’s eventual independence from the USSR open up the possibility of examining previously banned subjects: death, postwar resistance and – as in We Were at Our Own Field – the damage done by the Soviet occupation and the simple longing for home.

October reflects a general attempt in Russia to sustain the frenzy and dynamism of revolutionary fervour. This attempt increased in scale and ambition as they pushed it further, resulting in the theatricalisation of life. In other words, the boundaries between real events and fabricated drama became blurred as the portrayal of life became more exaggerated. It is important to remember that the film does not represent what actually happened during the 1917 Revolution, but is rather an adaptation.