Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

Soviet propaganda cartoon about the ongoing revolution in China.

The Nazis planted explosives to blow up the cities of Krakow and Prague, but the underground resistance in Poland works with the Russians to stop the disaster.

A night become real "fun" for a family with the visit from very strange person.

An American scientist invents a new weapon of mass destruction - silver dust. Corporate war breaks out between two military industry giants to own the weapon. The scientist dies and his son makes the discovery public with more consequences.

Anna Alexeyevna, once married not for love, had long since come to terms with both her boring husband and her unhappy life. One day, her husband brought a guest into their home — a landowner named Pavel Konstantinovich Alekhin. Anna Alexeyevna immediately felt a kindred spirit in him...

A plane bound for Africa ends up in the hands of hired killers. Their goal is to prevent the Soviet doctor from getting to Lega, where he is to operate on the leader of the liberation movement.

Based on the works of Nikolai Gogol - 'The Old World Landowners', 'The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich', 'Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt'.

Because of the talkativeness of the village gossip girl Osan, who does not know how to hold her long tongue in time, a beautiful apricot tree died. It was cut down by a greedy, envious neighbor. But the good old man Khachatur and his granddaughter managed to grow a new miracle tree from a magic stone overnight, to the delight of all the village poor.

One day, while walking through the jungle, the Girl saw in a cage a Tiger caught by hunters. Having pity on him, she released the striped predator. Instead of gratitude, Tiger prepared to eat the Girl. In response to the complaints of the Girl, Tiger declared that there was no justice on earth. To resolve the dispute, they turned to the Parrot and the Palm .

A spring night is a poetic film which is based on the motives of the poem by V. Lugovsky. The film is devoted to the theme of fidelity to the battle traditions of revolutionary past, to the theme of human happiness the sense of it in the battle for high ideals.

This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. Now he learns that she is alone with a small daughter, the girl's father having been killed at the front.

A young sailor suddenly gets involved into a spy game between KGB and CIA.

Leningrade. Galina works as a restorer at Catherine Palace; she is a sculptor as well and takes her profession very seriously and enthusiastically. Vera, a friend from art school, sees her loneliness and introduces her to her husband's colleagues - friendly Mitya and mysterious Andrey. Soon Galina finds herself torn between the two men.

A doctor from Poland is looking for his sister who got missing in the USSR during WWII.

West of Ukraine, 1945. According to the intelligence of the First Ukrainian Front, a special detachment led by Hauptmann Hintze entered the Carpathian region in search of gold for the needs of Germany. In order to get ahead of the enemy, the Chekists recruit a forester. Together with the Chekist Olga, they are supposed to be looking for a place to cut down the forest. In fact, Krapivych is tasked with protecting Olga, who is gathering information about the actions of a German group of saboteurs, which she is hiding in a pursuit squad, and looking for gold ...

A coming-of-age story about the three girl friends who had just graduated school.

Captain of a Russian battleship "Novik" Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady Klara who is a German spy. They cannot be together because of the war and their professions. But they are in such love that all the war battles and battleships do not stop them, only their duties do.

An art film about the life of Soviet creatives in the late 1980s.

The Soviet intelligence officer Martha Shirke honorably fulfills the command mission, but the Nazis expose her.

Far Eastern policeman Serezhkin, the hero of the movies "The Master of the Taiga" and "The Missing Witness", is now a captain. This time he investigates a complex case of missing rafts with wood, about the fight loggers with foreman Chubatov and a fire at the timber warehouse. All three cases are in one bundle: the intruders are trying to blame everything on the foreman. But Serezhkin is an experienced detective to figure it all out and save an honest man from prison.

Based on a story by K. Zandner. An American air base is located in the mountainous desert of a Middle Eastern country. Henry Davis (Alexander Belyavsky) dreamed of being an art historian, but became a military pilot. His work is associated with risk, but the hero is satisfied with a decent income. Performing a reconnaissance flight, Henry invades the airspace of the Soviet Union and comes under fire from border anti-aircraft guns. Davis barely manages to make it to the base. He is presented with an award and offered to prepare to fly a new super-fast airplane.

The sassy shorty thinks studying is a waste of time.

District doctor Katya Luzina has recently graduated from medical school. Her first steps in the profession aren’t easy: at first, she faces patients’ skepticism about her youth, daily routine, and even deceit. But her determination and love for people help Katya become an excellent doctor. She is eventually invited to work at a clinic under a renowned professor.

Collective farmer, foreman and tractor driver come to the city, where they find themselves in funny situations.

A puppet cartoon about how good it is to be yourself. There is a holiday in the hare grove. The mole is giving away hare fur coats because winter has come and it has become cold. And one stupid hare was always dissatisfied with something: it seemed to him that the others had better fur coats. He chose for himself not a white fur coat, like all the hares, but a red one, a fox one. And this is what came out of it...

In the summer of 1942, the Soviet army is fighting the Germans on the Don River. Young lieutenant Ogarkov gets lost in the steppe and fails to deliver a redeployment order. For that, he is sentenced to death. Now, another soldier has to lead him across the steppes to his death.

The play of the same name by Mamin-Sibiryak, staged by the Vakhtangov State Academic Theater. At the center of the play is the daughter of a bankrupt gold miner, who, faced with cruel morals, herself becomes a predator.

A story about the fate of a woman who has traveled a thorny path from unrequited love to family happiness.

Foontic and his new friends once again outwit the evil Mrs. Belladonna, who, under the influence of sleeping pills, is taken in the middle of the night in their car to the Three Roads roadside hotel and handed over to her old friend, an equally greedy and cynical businessman named Durillo. When she regains consciousness, Belladonna resumes her pursuit of Foontic, who, together with the kind-hearted clown Mokus, the clever monkey Bambino, and the hippopotamus Chocolate, is preparing to put on a grand circus show in the city.

The film depicts the challenging daily life of rural workers.

The continuation of adventures of Maria and Mirabella, in which the two girls get lost in a fabulous world inside a television set.

Three youngsters have to take command of a space flight when their adult captain comes down sick and is forced to quarantine himself.

A documentary film about the work of stuntmen and camera operators in Soviet cinema, using the film "White Sun of the Desert" as an example.

A donkey, a goat, a marmoset and a leering bear arrange a quartet.

A conflict between the football team's coach and its best players, Bushuev and Milenkov, led to the players leaving the team. Milenkov returned to the research institute, while Bushuev moved to a provincial town, became a coach, and, basing his training on a scientific approach to the game, achieved great success in a short period of time...

A short film based on the story by Valentin Rasputin.

This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs. Rulers like Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great were widely admired for their dedication to Russia and their absolute determination to enhance her position in the world. But praise for the hated later Romanovs conflicted too heavily with the very beliefs that had brought about the Revolution in 1917.

Story of 38-years-old Rita whose fiance didn't show up at their wedding.

The greedy king takes away the magic mill from the grandfather and the animals. Cartoon about the joint struggle for justice.

At school for devils, the theme of the lesson is "Love". Whom should the devil still love? Imp No. 13 has his own answer, which does not correspond to the school curriculum in any way.

The gullible stewardess Katya Vasilchikova did not know that, having undertaken to carry on board her plane a briefcase-"diplomat" allegedly with collectible cognacs for the handsome newlyweds Andrei and Tanya flying on the same flight, she became an unwitting accomplice of air pirates...

This is a somewhat ironic, but very informative story about the origin, development and decline of the Greek Olympiad tradition, set out with the help of an off-screen commentary read by Z. Gerdt. Ancient history is described in great detail and exciting. In the graphic decision, artists were guided by the ancient Greek monuments, first of all - vase paintings, stylized for them and characters, and decorations, up to imitation cracks. In the film there are a lot of full-scale shots, and in particular it is interesting to frame the photographs of the bas-reliefs of the Pergamon altar shot by Yuriy Norshtein. The film ends with documentary shots of the opening of the Olympics-80 in Moscow.

Life in a distant south town become to difficult for the young girl Ksana from Moscow...

The story of the confrontation between chief engineer Petin, a careerist and a fraudster, and Litvinov, an experienced construction supervisor, a solid, direct and generous man.

The year is 1943. A scientific expedition led by Professor Sagdulaev is working in the Karakum sands. In the sands, not far from them, a German plane drops paratroopers disguised in Soviet military uniforms. The saboteurs have a mission: to take explosives hidden in the ruins of an old fortress and blow up the strategic bridge over the Amu Darya. The members of the expedition engage in an unequal battle with the enemies…

A funny story about four young men who are starting a band.

A talented scientist Andrei Gusarov has been through difficult times - from the thirties in the Stalin's USSR and all the way to the launch of first Soviet satellite.

The story is about an unprecedented, unheard-of love that can transform a person.

Mafia kidnaps an investigator's little son after he discovers massive thefts on a local shoe factory. With the help of his three old friends, two cops and a newspaper reporter he struggles to rescue his son and close the case at the same time.

A film about the first football team to be formed in Georgia, based in Poti at the beginning of XX century.

The legend of the Suram Fortress.

In Arabic, “mameluke” means a white slave, a prisoner. In Egypt, this name was given to prisoners of war who had been sold into slavery from Georgia and other countries of the Caucasus. The action of this drama starts in Georgia in the late 18th century. Two friends are abducted and sold into slavery. One ends up in Egypt, the other - in Venice. Years later, they meet by the ancient pyramids, in the desert where a battle is going on between the armies of Bonaparte and Ali-bey, the ruler of Egypt. In a combat with a French officer, the Mameluke injures him. Falling from his horse onto the sand, the officer exclaims in Georgian: “Vai, nana!” (“Oh, mother!”). And the Mameluke recognizes in him a mate of his childhood games.

A poor girl was given an impossible task by her stepmother: to gather snowdrops in a winter forest. Suddenly she stumbled across twelve brothers who happened to be the twelve months.