Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

Mysterious woman appears, claiming to be a newlywed husband's missing wife.

A woman’s perspective on the reality of wartime is a simple human truth, filled with piercing details that seem unbelievable. It is a truth that is not mentioned in official documents, films, or books from the Soviet era, and it is even absent from the memoirs of male veterans. This is a play about life, where concepts like honor, love for the motherland, and compassion held great significance.

The poet Habib is writing a poem about the Uzbek steppe. But his creativity is hindered by conflicts at work and at home.

About the hero of Socialist Labor, winner of the USSR State Prize, member of the Central Committee of the CPSU, combine harvester of the Lenin's Path collective farm The Peschanokopsky district of the Rostov region by N.V.Pereverzeva.

Returning from the army, Pierre starts working for the police. Before joining the army, he loved his neighbor Tina, who moved to another city. One day a house is being broken into and Pierre is wounded by criminals.

A documentary about the everyday life on a film set and the elusiveness that still confronts the artist and without the pursuit of which there would probably not even be failures.

After visiting the zoo and reading Chukovsky's book, pioneer Senya falls asleep. In a dream, he flies to Africa with Crocodile Crocodilovich.

On the struggle of artisanal peasants against the economic oppression by the kulaks.

A film is sanctified to beginning of the great equipping with modern amenities of city of Odesa in 1935. A film was considered lost. Him was found out in Russia only in 2001 among the copies passed by the German cinematography.

First student film of Ardak Amirkulov. About a debt before the Motherland and people; about the moral and ethical purity of a contemporary.

About the life of a high-mountain village in Checheno-Ingushetia. The heroine of the film is a young teacher Svetlana Smirnova, who came to work at a local school.

A story about the boys and their life during the WWII. Based on Lev Kassil book.

About a wolf who gate crashes a wedding. Based on a Belorusian folk tale, although the decay of the Soviet Union at the time show through the pores of the depiction of the tale.

The cartoon is based on a humorous Ukrainian folk song.

The composer Raimonds Pauls, the artist of the USSR People's Stage, shares his thoughts on life and work. The authors focus on the difficult daily work of a talented artist.

Hedgehog decided to change his fur coat, but no matter how much he measured, he could not find one better than his prickly one.

Gliding competitions are taking place in one of the border towns of Uzbekistan. An unexpected typhoon blows a glider with schoolchildren Kostya and Rustam into the desert. When their glider crashed on the sand, the guys find a small Firyusa in the cabin under the seat, who really wanted to fly, but they didn't take her. The three of them set off across the desert to the Dead City.

The tale of the confrontation between the peasant Ants and the Unclean. Ants hires himself to the Unclean as a farmhand and, thanks to his intelligence and wit, repeatedly makes the Unclean look like a fool.

Documentary about the struggle of the Pathet Lao (or Neo Lao Hak Xat, the Patriotic Front) against the USA during the years 1966-1968. Includes footage of the Laos countryside showing the daily lives of civilians, including farming and education. Also features footage of the caves in which civilians lived and worked, with areas for printing books, sewing, and preparing medicines for an underground hospital. Footage of soldiers of the Patriotic Front using anti-aircraft guns to fire at US planes, and debris from crashed plane.

The film focuses on the statues, patterns of stone in the city of Saratov.

About Sado-masochism, suicide and the irrational nature of the human spirit. The irrationality of the human psyche, sadomasochism and suicide are the leitmotifs of this film. The documentary footage of airplanes and pilots – symbols of courage and honour – become an unexpected counterpoint to the main structure of the film. The combination of documentary footage and poetic storytelling with the inclement northern setting reinforce the ascetic atmosphere of Suicide Monsters and give its self-destructive characters a heroic and noble appearance. —arsenals.lv

Half-wolf, half-man, 7 feet tall. He came from mountains to rewrite the "Red Riding Hood" story...

In a small town hospital, former partisan Korotkevich has been lying in bed for 20 years. As a result of brutal torture in the Gestapo, he lost his memory. Psychiatrist Kondakov succeeds in treating Korotkevich, and his memory returns. Now, with Korotkevich's help, it becomes possible to expose the traitors who betrayed and destroyed the partisan squad during the war.

Juna Mukhraneli will be assigned to work at a quarry after graduating from the institute. However, upon arrival, she will be offered the position of temporary well foreman instead of a geologist.

During the holidays, Aslan meets an old geologist Petrovich, who lived and worked in these places before the war. Here he left a bag with the only photo of his family, who died during the war. Aslan helps Petrovich find the people who have been carefully storing the bag with the photo all this time.

About a clash on the open sea between Soviet sailors and a group of White Guard officers. Lost movie.

World War II claimed so many lives that a single village street is now home to dozens of widows, mothers, and children of fallen soldiers. One day, they all gather by the monument to the Unknown Soldier to remember the dead and share their grief together.

Musical teleplay based on A.P. Chekhov's vaudevilles "The Proposal" and "The Bear".

A short story about the summer adventures of four inseparable friends from a small fishing village.

Animation short.

A short feature television film based on Valentin Kataev's "New Year's Story". An episode in the life of a Soviet intelligence officer during the Great Patriotic War: On New Year's Eve in an occupied city, risking her life, a young woman hides a wounded underground fighter...

Shadiman Chavchavadze and Shalva Gedevanishvili's animation short about vocation.

Animation short.

Animated film about fire safety.

An animated movie for children about the change of seasons, about the struggle of good and evil. In the possession of Grandmother Blizzard appeared Vesnyanka and brought warmth. Raided on her evil blizzard, but to help Vesnyanka came animals.

About a bunny's meetings with forest inhabitants preparing for winter.

An old man who took in and nursed a wounded crane is visited by a young, beautifully dressed woman.

Products of poor quality released by a sewing factory get to a department store and are sold because the chief engineer of the factory and the head of the respective section of the department store are close friends. Love for a woman makes the head of the department store realize his mistake.

This case has been under investigation for five years, it has gone through all the courts, and there are so many papers in this case that they are "carried from one court to another on a cart." The case is known as the Muromsky case. The investigation is being conducted against Lidochka. She is suspected of knowing about Krechinsky's intention to rob Muromsky, of assisting him in this, and of providing this criminal assistance because she was having an illicit love affair with him.

Fedor Ivanovich purchased a Moskvich. Together with his wife, he was planning to go to a picturesque lake in the Moscow region. On the way, we picked up my mother-in-law in a new Moscow district and left the car at the entrance. Suddenly, shouts were heard from the street: “There’s an accident!” Fyodor Ivanovich, feeling cold, leaned out of the window and was stunned - his car was crushed by a dump truck...

A day in the life of one not too secured family. The spouses are going to divorce and reconcile connected with this formalities. It is needed somehow to divide the property, deal with the housing. And in addition the nature gives a surprise – a flood.

The film takes place in late 1941 in Transcarpathia. Soviet paratroopers landed on the territory occupied by the Hortists. Of the six, only Olexa Borkanyuk manages to bypass the ambush. However, the Nazis, taking local people hostage, threaten to punish them if he doesn't voluntarily surrender. For the sake of saving the lives of people, Olexa goes to the camp of the enemy. The film is based on real facts from the life of the writer and journalist, Hero of the Soviet Union Olexa Borkanyuk.

Twelve-year-old Azamat spends his summer vacation in the village. After another prank by his grandson, his grandfather sends him to a high-mountain pasture. There, among the shepherds, the boy initially feels uncomfortable. His peers do not miss the opportunity to laugh at how Azamat herds the flock and cleans the pens. But soon, the boy begins to value the shepherds' attitude toward him and his friendship with a one-horned cow, with whom he often plays soccer.

Varvarushka, the restless main character of the cartoon, went with her goat friend to pick flowers in the field. She ran and walked through the grass, and didn't even notice how she ended up in a dense forest. She came across a hut in the forest in which there was no one. In the hut, as usual, there were three beds, three chairs and three bowls on the table. Varvara sat on all the chairs, tried all the bowls, jumped on all the beds, and fell asleep on the smallest one. Meanwhile, the owners of the hut - three bears - returned home.

A tale about how the hippopotamus Topa and the kitten Tutti made a journey to a distant mountain and felt the joy of discovering a great and beautiful world.

Seventh-grader Ilham comes on vacation to a mountain village to visit relatives. Seriously, but on the most fundamental issues of life, the boy does not find a common language with the staid, extremely self-respecting Uncle Azim. He meets the sorcerer Hamrakula-buva, who sacredly protects an old tree from death, on which, back in the thirties (the childhood years of his son, who did not return from the war), the children organized the headquarters of the Timur team. Ilham understands the old man well, helps him take care of the tree, bring out a new variety of blue rose, which his son dreamed of growing, and does not consider him a sorcerer at all.…

The hero of the picture is a young eccentric engineer who comes to work in the provinces and invents "shatterproof glass" there. The work on the film was long and difficult. In early 1937, attempts to save the film were stopped.

Two kids once argued about whether it was possible to play out a book plot in life - they almost quarreled. Sixteen-year-old Erkin solved their dispute. He organized a fun game of Moydodyr, where everyone had a place and a role. This children's game is the plot of a cute and funny movie.