Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

About a lazy and boastful sparrow who didn't want to take care of a warm home for autumn and winter in the summer, and then regretted it. But the friends from the sparrow flock did not leave the silly in trouble.

About the acquaintance of Topa and Tutti, a cute and shy hippo and a good, but also very proud kitten. Until they met, they dreamed of finding friends, because they were very lonely. And then they met one day! Now they are will have funny stories and adventures, and most importantly – sincere friendship.

Johnny is very fond of Sunday. He goes to look for Sunday, but on his journey he meets the other days of the week and becomes good friends with them all.

Based on the play by Ignatiy Dvoretsky. Television version of the play by the Lensovet Leningrad Academic Theater.

A film-play based on the works of Arkady Gaidar, depicting the heroic struggle of cadets from the Ninth Command Courses of the Red Army against the Petliurists.

Against the will of the fathers (1926) was shot based on the story of Sholom Aleichem "Blood Stream", which talks about the participation of Jews in the 1905 revolution. The first version of the film, entitled "Mabul," was banned by the Soviet government. The 5-part version of the film has survived: a version modified by the will of censorship with other names of the characters, an updated storyline, a more positive attitude and a happy ending. The finale of the final reel shows the mass scenes of the revolutionary struggle in St. Petersburg, the scene of the Jewish pogrom.

Based on a Georgian folk tale.

The oldest preserved Ukrainian nature film.

A movie about love and betrayal. About war, about returning from war. However, the film does not reflect Platonov's important theme of epiphany. In the story, the protagonist does not just forgive his wife, but begins to realize how hard it was for her in the rear and at the same time realizes his selfishness and moral deafness. The peculiarity of the movie is that the characters speak in Platonovian constructions, which sound very unusual for ordinary speech.

The everyday life of the candy factory. A gray, exhausting life, and a guest lecturer talks about beautiful feelings, about love and courtship. He does not know what it costs to make a box of chocolates that someone will bring to his beloved woman on March 8. It's snowing, covering the streets. Then spring will come, then summer, but still in the smoking room, the workers of the candy factory, in rare moments of rest, will talk about their lives, which are passing.

In anticipation of cold weather, two bear cubs go fishing, which may be the last before the winter. The kids are watching the crumbling leaves, birds flying away and drifting clouds. They begin to think about how one can catch a cloud. Now they do not realize what an unusual catch in the form of a crescent and stars is in store for them. Or maybe they will have enough bait even for the sun?

Based on Chukchi fairy-tales. A gosling is born without wings after spending too much time sleeping in his egg.

Based on the tale by Pavel Bazhov. It was under serfdom. Once there was an orphan Ustya, her late father worked with the malachite. It was rumored that he was a secret stash hidden in the grass. The smart girl was outwitted stupid clerk and greedy lady, who is still looking for a hiding place.

By Nikolai Gogol's "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden". Son of a stubborn mayor can not get his father's agreement to marry an ordinary peasant girl. Unexpectedly he gets the help from an "evil force"

In the center - a story about the collapse of the plans of British imperialism, which sought to tear Turkmenistan away from Soviet Russia and turn it into a colony of the British Empire. About the failure of an experienced British intelligence officer who operated in 1918 on the territory of Turkestan.

A short film capturing the journey of various musicians and singers to the Lithuanian Song Festival.

A story about first love...

The Cossacks save a group of Ukrainian maidens who are kidnapped by pirates while celebrating Ivana Kupala. En route they visit Ancient Greece, Egypt, and India.

From the life of an old theater comedian.

Everyone considered Sashko a mischief maker, but he dreamed of heroism. One day the boy was invited to act in a movie. Together with the entire film crew, Sashko went on his first expedition. But the war began. The wounded Sashko was rescued and rescued by a peasant woman, and when he recovered, she equipped him for a long journey - home to Kyiv. He reached his hometown, where the Nazis were already in control, and soon, having contacted the partisans, Sashko began to help them.

Spring of 1944. In a small village on the banks of the Dniester River, at the kulak estate of Sanda Țițan, everyone awaits the arrival of Soviet power in their own way. Sanda’s eldest son, a Romanian officer, leaves home with the occupying forces. The younger sons head into the forest, taking their mother’s last savings with them. Nikolai withdraws deeper into himself, realizing the futility of his life and vaguely hoping for something new, something bright. And standing firm amidst all this turmoil is Alexandra, Sanda’s steadfast daughter-in-law.

An anthology film comprising two comedy shorts about life in rural Ossetia.

Rein Raamat’s Hell adapts the engravings of Estonian graphic artist Eduard Wiiralt into a surreal, grotesque, and heavily sexual animated short. Wiiralt’s three source works, “The Preacher,” “Cabaret,” and “Hell,” date back to the early 1930s and portray a cacophony of bacchanalia, hysteria, and violence in the final years of Estonian independence amid the unrest of the Great Depression and European instability.

A musical comedy about the adventures of a few students in Soviet Uzbekistan

WWII Propaganda Film

Once a boy and his faithful dog met Baba Yaha in the forest. They got an invisibility hat from her, created exclusively for doing good deeds, helping other people. Now the young hero tries his best to help everyone around him, but this often leads to misunderstandings and ridiculous situations.

Animated short film about a boy going to an arcade.

A kitten and a young boy live in a small fisherman's hut. The boy's father calls him Little Hawk. The threesome are poor but happy, and the father goes to sea every day to fish. One day, there is a storm at sea and the father doesn't come home...

A mouse, more interested in singing than survival, gets into various scrapes in the jungle.

A study on a New Year's theme.

Montage of still photos with lighting effects.

The descendants of refugees from Western Armenia are building a new village in a stone valley. They have different destinies, but they have united with one goal - to grow a beautiful garden on a rocky barren land.

The film is based on K. Kuliev's novel "Magtymguly". A story about a Turkmen spiritual leader, philosophical poet, Sufi and traveller who wrote under the pen name Pyragy (Feraghi) and is considered to be the most famous figure in Turkmen literary history. After graduating from the Khiva Madrasa, the poet Pyragy (Feraghi) Magtymguly returns to his native Turkmen aul. He teaches children, composes poems, loves a beautiful girl and is loved by her. But local bey Cherkez-khan does not like the poet's calls to unite Turkmens, and his soldiers burn the village. Khan appoints the captured Magtymguly his court poet but, having received a refusal, the tyrant orders to kill the poet. But the guard helps the poet to escape. Having returned to the burnt aul, Magtymguly begins to call on Turkmens to unite with Russia, because they could not deal with their troubles alone.

Since he was ten years old, Misha Kharlamov had dreamed of having his own apple orchard. Ulyana, the owner's daughter, loved Misha and believed in his dream. When the girl was given in marriage to someone she did not love, she lost her mind and left the village. Not finding Ulyana, Mikhail planted an apple orchard in memory of his beloved. One fierce winter he gave the orchard to people so that they could flood the stoves. And in the spring new shoots appeared on the cut trunks.

A story of a friendship between a boy and a girl during a pre-revolutionary times in Russia.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Arts and crafts exhibition / Actions against hunger / Eisenstein's first film "Dnevnik Glumova" ("Glumov's Diary") / Young Pioneers / May 1, parades

After the door to nowhere opens, a preacher is sitting on a mountain, exclaiming the new religion to people, the one from the book with white pages. Two black being arrive and kill a preacher. Book bleeds.

A man in his 30s visits a Soviet school to try to hook up with a young teacher there, and meets one of her students, whom he enlists to help introduce him to his romantic interest. While he waits for the student to free up, he observes the absurd Soviet culture, most evident within the school system, especially among the younger children.

The Voronezh Nuclear Power Plant reactor; Novgorod’s archaeological excavations. Archaeologist Boris Rybakov on importance of historical science. Lenin’s Materialism & Empirio-Criticism. The first university dept of natural compound chemistry in the Soviet Union, located in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. Agriculturalist Pavel Lukyanenko develops winter wheat varieties at Krasnodar Research Institute of Agriculture. French physicist Hubert Curien on USSR–France collaboration in nuclear physics. Foreign members of the USSR Academy of Sciences: Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Niels Bohr; theoretical physicist Igor Tamm on nuclear transformations in planetary & meteoritic matter, study of the Moon in relation to the Earth’s evolution. Dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Sciences. Archival film, photographs, manuscripts, books, interviews from Academy members, explore its role in the development of science, economics, and its prominent figures throughout its history…

A film-portrait about the work of the ballet dancer of the Vanemuine Theater, Ülo Vilimaa.

About the last days of the poet Maxim Bogdanovich's life (1891 — 1917).

This film is about the tragic lot of an innocent man who is condemned to prison.

Arto's watch factory releases non-operating watches through the fault of the quality controller. One of these watches causes a lot of trouble for the family of his beloved, Armenuhi. A dinner in honor of the groom turns into a severe censure of a bad workman.

Based on the play of the same name by F. Dumanoir and D'Ennery about the pure and strong love of the dancer Maritana, the favorite of the poor of Madrid, and the unemployed vagabond - Grand , a courageous and noble defender of the oppressed.

Former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus Alexander Myasnikyan rebuilds Armenia following its absorption into the Soviet Union.

The story is about how the fat and lazy boy Petka, because of the deception of the mischievous girl Susanna, ran away from home to the circus, and the kind girl Lyolishna helped his parents find him.

The civil war separated families on opposite sides of the barricades. How to understand this situation for a young girl who is being raised by a rich aunt, while her father leads a partisan detachment.

Director Victor Kossakovsky dedicated his documentary debut to the Russian philosopher and religious thinker Alexey Fedorovich Losev (1893-1988), who died shortly after the completion of the film.

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

Two pensioners sheltered a lost cow on the ninth floor of a city house.

Man went to the forest to collect bird eggs from nests - there are such collectors. He brought one egg home and put it in a fur hat under a light bulb. And a very cute... snake hatched from the testicle!

The story is about a young fisherman, a pupil of an orphanage, who, due to a curious accident, ends up on the fishing trawler "Dauria" and, thanks to his open and kind character, quickly becomes part of a friendly family of fishermen.