Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

Three road workers set at a rest stop waiting for paint to apply road markings.

Based on Mayakovsky's twentieth-century morality play, in which workers receive the awards of the blessed, and monarchs and capitalist politicians are consigned to eternal damnation.

A story about summer adventures of ten years old Adulis.

A high-mountainous region of Kyrgyzstan. A raging disaster nearly takes the life of a girl named Saltanat, a young zootechnician from a high-mountain collective farm. She is found in the snow and rescued by a researcher Joomart. From him Saltanat learns about plans to turn barren plateaus into abundant pastures. A bold idea fascinates Saltanat. She becomes Joomart's friend and ally in the struggle for the conquest of nature.

Children's summer time at the pioneer camp "Zvaigznīte".

Bai Kakabai, who fiercely hates the Soviet government, goes abroad with his family and servants. He is followed by the Nurali and Dodur brothers. The younger is in love with the owner's daughter, the elder cannot part with his beloved Akhal-Teke horse, Dik-Ayak. Having wandered through a foreign land, the brothers will find neither happiness nor prosperity there, and they will return home.

Aging and family memories, grandfather, son and grandson.

Human relationships are like fishing nets, they can be either filled or nodular.

Borja and Seva live on the bank of the Dnieper. In summer, during vacations, they help adults by delivering letters. Suddenly they learn that a poacher has appeared in the village. The boys start their own investigation.

Sandro Koridze, the manager of the trust, is a bureaucrat, flatterer, and coward who prioritises his own well-being. One day, while walking outside the city, he accidentally hits a calf with his car. Terrified, believing he has killed someone, Sandro flees into the mountains.

About a kind girl helping her grandfather with housework.

This is a story about a young man striving to make a career and money, about his cunning intrigues when he throws honor, friendship and feelings under his feet, using gullible people.

A Soviet documentary by Roman Karmen and Mikhail Slutsky, assembled from 1938–41 footage in Yan’an and at the front, chronicling China’s anti-Japanese resistance—from Eighth Route Army actions to civilian mobilization and daily life in the base areas.

The heroes of the play are the father and son, the Raskatovs, whose lives are marked by the echoes of the past war: the father, a prominent military leader, dies from wounds sustained during the war; the son perishes while disarming a Nazi chemical weapons depot.

Stefan Saturday, having emigrated to America, wandered for fifteen years in search of work. Having saved up money, the hero acquired a small farm and, with the arrival of spring, came to his native village in Ukraine, where Christina had been waiting for him all these years. Much has changed in the life of Transcarpathia - and no matter how much Christina loved him, she refused to go with him.

A parody of several popular movies such as A Man and Woman (1966) and The Last Relic (1969).

A little rabbit constantly pretends to be sick to exploit the kindness of a bear, but his trick is eventually uncovered, revealing a fable about trust and sincerity

Animated movie based on Enid Blyton's fairy tale "The Famous Duckling Tim" about how because of his restless temper Tim always gets into stories, which, however, always ends safely.

The wanderer managed to restore justice in the city and punish the greedy judge.

Two friends, Dimka and Mishka, decide to send a bottle letter.

Historical-revolutionary film about the struggle of the Bolshevik underground against the interventionists during the civil war in Odessa, about the participation of children in underground work.

An animation film by Roze Stiebra and Imants Ziedonis

The parable of a monstrously large bull that was raised by villagers, who did not know how dearly it would cost them.

“We are all from the same trust,” the old peasant replies to the driller’s foreman when he, justifying himself for the wounds inflicted on the ground, refers to the neighboring trust. “And we have no other.”

An animated film about cubs who did not know how to carefully play with their toys and constantly broke them.

The hero of this lyrical and optimistic story, former front-line soldier Shodi Makhmadaliev, has worked as a shepherd for many years. He loves his work. Yet life, surprisingly, is not easy even here in the степь. And when things grow especially heavy on the old soldier’s heart, he turns to the memories of his wartime years and holds on to hope—for something better, something worthy of the memory of his friends who never returned from the front…

A documentary on the Russian Winter Art Festival, which took place in Moscow every winter since 1964.

The life of little Andryusha is changing: since his father has a new wife, he will have to get used to a new mother figure after losing his mother at an early age.

Follows the preschooler Slavka and his father, a researcher, an avid fan of the lottery "Sport Lotto". One day Slavka brought home a hedgehog, which he exchanged with a friend for a lottery ticket from his dad.…

The events take place in 1919 in Bessarabia.

A film about a youth team in a steelworks who fought to increase labor productivity. The film is lost.

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 forester tends to his ailing wife. The sudden arrival of guests who have come for a hunt prompts him to recall how they met—their shared quadrille, and everything that followed.

During WWII, one of the villages in Guria is once revived by the noise of gypsies camped nearby.

A film story about everyday life of people in the countryside, their work in the collective farm and their attitude to their work. Unlike those who fulfil their duties according to the commands of the party leadership, milkmaid Praskovya Likholetova belongs to those people who do not pass by mismanagement and injustice. She has always been a truth-seeker, principled, honest, convinced of her rightness, and this has often led to conflicts. Having worked almost 40 years on the farm, Praskovya was forced to retire. But before leaving, she said that now she has a lot of time, and she will take care of their affairs...

A Russian soldier is kind to a girl who misses her garden and helps her rebuild it.

About a merry, smart boy Tom Sawyer, that, testing, as him it seemed to, all facilities, to be good, decided nevertheless to go away from home and become a marine robber.

A biographical film about the life of Gani Muratbaev, the founder of the Komsomol in the Kazakh SSR .

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.

The Two Kids playing a Chicken Balloon.

After the novel of the same name of B.Bayramov. The film is about life during war, about postwoman.

The history of the Soviet space program and the flight of the world's first manned spacecraft "Vostok" piloted by Yuri Gagarin.

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.

Follows the amazing city of Smekhograd. The day of Laughter and Fun came to Smekhograd and a carnival was announced. All the inhabitants of this magical city began to diligently prepare for the holiday and make funny masks. Only the three-headed Dragon was unhappy with the upcoming holiday and decided to ruin it.…

A film about a basketball legend - Arvydas Sabonis and a fantastic match.

Teleplay on "The Debauchees, Or The Jesuit Caught" by Henry Fielding.

Four young men hitchhike in summer Estonia and visit beautiful places. In the concert film, Heli Lääts and the male quartet of the Estonian Radio sing and popular pop tunes of the 1960s are heard.

A group of Soviet children, together with Murzilka, go to Africa to free the Negro girl Kane from captivity. Overcoming difficulties and obstacles, they wrest Kane from the grip of the oppressor-colonizer.

Six years old Gosha and his babysitter are trying to reunite Gosha's family by bringing his father back home.

About how Detective Teddy tried to find out why the aliens did not want to come into contact with the inhabitants of the Earth.

On Christmas Eve, Marie receives an enchanted toy as a gift from her uncle Albert. At night, it comes to life and engages in an unequal battle with the mouse army and their formidable king. Staged by Yuri Grigorovich for the Bolshoi Theatre in 1977.

A film adaptation of Chekhov's short story of the same name. A forty-year-old man and a young woman meet in a roadside inn. They get to know each other and wait out the blizzard raging outside the window.