Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

Courageous Cucumber travels and helps animals and birds.

Russian fairy tale about the love of a young couple.

A former army paratrooper starts working in the police and almost immediately is forced to fight a dangerous criminal.

Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the war had ended), the kids have to come up with something to keep them busy. Two friends, Valerka and Galia, play some peculiar, very dangerous games of their own amid the man-made wasteland of Suchan.

A film about the Northern Urals and its nature, as well as about the life of a local forester and his family.

The little bear cannot fall asleep in winter and walks through the forest.

A girl named Katya meets a boy Mitya on the street. He loves animals, but his mother won't let them at their house no more. He looks for another place for his pets and so he lets Katya to take the animals to her home for a day.

The long-term war with Sparta ends. The power and prosperity of Athens has sunk into the past; in an atmosphere of general despair and irritation, democracy, tyranny, and oligarchy replace each other. Against this background, the last, tragic period of Socrates’ life takes place.

Mikhail and Nyura are getting ready for the wedding. Suddenly, Klava returns to the city, Mikhail’s first love...

Based on the story of the same name by D. Granin, which tells about scientists and moral choice.

Newlyweds-builders are handed the keys to the apartment at the Komsomol wedding. Having learned that the house has not yet been completed, the young decide to take the office of the secretary of the Komsomol committee of the construction site.

Petr Konstantinovich is the powerful Director of Petrochemical Industry, which is being built from scratch in a small Siberian town.

In this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a mysterious wizard.

A new young teacher Tatyana Ivanovna takes a problematic 5th"B" class and wins with the score 4:0.

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.

A young couple is traveling to the Black Sea with their car planning to have a wedding on the way.

A story about young man who is trying to turn his village into an agricultural center.

Elephant, Boa and Monkey decide that the future had already come.

A satiric comedy which dissects the iconography of the 'Soviet Hero'. Original footage of a propaganda film from 1941 is the starting point for this parody of the ideological cliches of Soviet cinema. It follows the story of a Russian crew across the North Pole.

In the cramped cockpit of the boat, of which Ivan Burlakov has long been the captain and where Elenka, not jokingly called his wife, works as a sailor, a new employee appears - the captain's assistant Sergei. Outwardly energetic and open, he quickly achieves Elenka’s love. And just as quickly - Ivan’s dismissal.

Young clown Sasha is having trouble performing his act with his donkey Gena. After another failure, he decides to go on a journey with Gena. After traveling across the country, the friends return to their hometown and perform for the audience once again.

Having arrived from the village to Leningrad, the heroine achieved everything she could dream of: she graduated from the Institute with honors, defended her thesis, built and furnished a cooperative apartment. Only here in private life she was not lucky: for some reason, do not hold near her man…

Vadim, a part-time dump truck driver in Leningrad, picks up an extremely young woman, along with a newborn baby. Vadim is forced to spend the rest of his day with Anna, helping her untangle herself from unpleasant, dramatic, and even tragic situations – and she and she alone is to blame for all of them. The baby, which Anna stole in order to make an impression on an estranged lover, is finally returned to its parents, but the problems that the theft caused remain.

The young energetic Lyudmila Petrovna Nikitina, who worked as a milkmaid on the farm, decided to radically change her life. Settling the head of a rural furniture store, she sold a cow, pigs, sheep, and even invited the sons of a music teacher from the city, violinist Valerian Sergeyevich, to her sons. Her husband Theodosius, a collective farm carpenter, is not able to reason with his wife, but at the same time he does not intend to put up with the new order. To Lyudmila Petrovna’s surprise, the music teacher, who had a taste for village life, also fell under the influence of Theodosius. Once, having seized children, the men fled home. With difficulty, Lyudmila Petrovna was able to restore the broken family peace, and the wife of Valerian Sergeyevich to return his husband home.

In 1934, Margarita Chugueva, nicknamed Vaska for her large frame and masculine strength, was working on the construction of the Moscow Metro. One day, among the newcomers to the brigade, she recognized Osip, her tormentor, who had mocked special settlers in the Siberian settlement where the family of wealthy peasants Chuguevs was exiled during the years of collectivization, and from where Margarita had escaped.

The eventful history of Tyko Vylka, the first Nenets artist, cartographer, polar explorer, participant in World War II, chairman of the Novaya Zemlya Island Council.

An interesting voyage through the Soviet television and film industry.

Kirill Vorobyov's life is simple and nothing special: after graduating from school and serving in the army, he works at a factory as a mechanic. But one day he meets Alena, a student at one of the Moscow universities. And for the first time, Kirill begins to feel constrained and uncomfortable in the company of intelligent girl he likes.

Episode 5. Mowgli stood the leader of the wolf pack. It's time to settle with the main enemy of Mowgli tiger Shere Khan. In addition, the jungle comes the time of renewal, blossom and love. Mowgli feels vaguely disturbing. It's time to leave the jungle and return back to the people.

A television film based on vaudeville and early short stories by Anton Chekhov, "The Proposal", "The Wedding", "The Anniversary", etc. The scene is a provincial ball.

One decent citizen was having lunch and indifferently looking at the fish in his aquarium. But suddenly a real monster emerged from the muddy water. However, unwillingness to strain even to save his own life led the hero to slavery. Or maybe nothing has really changed in his life?

The little bunny has an overly naive and, at the same time, stubborn character. He never listens to anyone: neither to his relatives - hares, nor to other forest inhabitants. During this period, everyone around is preparing to face the harsh winter. Therefore, the bunny was told to change his fur coat to a warm one, so as not to freeze later. However, he decided to think about it, while everyone around him was wearing warm fur coats.

1944. On the Polish front, the fascists are building a secret defensive barrier. The task of obtaining the plans for the structures is assigned to a young intelligence agent, Maria, who must make contact with the frontline intelligence resident, Major Kurtz, behind enemy lines…

Watching happy families, Katya made a simple conclusion for herself: the further away from home her husband is, the more prosperity and happiness there is in the house. And the young wife sends her husband to a distant construction site...

The Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey Kirov.

Extraordinary Commissar Pyotr Kobozev arrives in Soviet Turkestan on Lenin's personal order. He will have to quickly and accurately understand the situation and take appropriate measures against the counter-revolutionaries.

A biopic about Prince Kutuzov, the defeater of Napoleon Bonaparte.

The screen adaptation of the novel by Tadjik writer Sadriddine Aini, telling the story of a tramp who falls in love with a rich girl, was supposed to become the first full-length feature film in Central Asian film history. But the unfinished Dokhunda was banned by the Soviet authorities when film production was already in full swing. No footage survived. This is why Izvolov had to rely on Lev Kuleshov’s draft to study and appreciate the maestro’s vision and the unique aesthetic concept, which was never to be realised during Kuleshov’s lifetime.

Friendly Pumpkin is trying to make friends with the forest dwellers. A story about stereotypes and the importance of friendliness.

Feeling taunted by the success of an inordinately fortunate nobleman, an officer decides to challenge him to a duel.

Fyodor Mozzhukhin, having worked for several years on different construction sites of the country, returned to his native village and organized a team of mechanics working on a contract basis in the collective farm. Immediately critics of the new organization of labor were found, slackers and envious people were revealed. The village woke up from hibernation.

Based on Russian and Kazakh fairy tales, cartoon tells the story of two heroes - Ivan and Batyr.

Short propaganda film released to raise army morale during first months of war. Civil War hero and Red Army commander Vasily Chapayev (killed in 1919 by White Army officers then drowned in the Ural river) swims ashore but it's the summer of 1941. Chapayev asks who are Soviets fighting off this time, hears that it's Germans once again and then gives an inspiring speech. He is played by Boris Babochkin who famously portrayed Chapayev in 1934 biopic.

Bolshevik coup. Dying, old Bulyga decided to reconcile his sons, whose paths had diverged at the beginning of the revolution. That's why he called them. But the meeting of his brothers did not make him happy - they were deeply harboring enmity against each other. They buried their father. As soon as they left the village, a detachment broke into the village and began to rampage. And then the brothers rushed after the gang....

A funny story of a six year old Kazakh boy who really wants to start going to school in order to join his seven year old friend.

A vaudeville based on a love story. Young Bela hurries by taxi to her fiance, to whom she was engaged in early childhood. A landslide in the mountains delayed the car...

A Soviet documentary surveying the liberation of France, from D-Day landings and partisan actions to the entry into Paris. Edited at TsSDF from footage shot by French, British, American, Soviet—and captured German—cameramen, it blends frontline combat and city-by-city liberation with portraits of French cultural landmarks and daily life returning after occupation.

In 1979, in one of the northern Soviet cities, the police are investigating the murder of a man who was on his way home from the gold mines. The detectives track down the main suspect, Grigory Milinko. But the further the case progresses, the more complicated it becomes, as it turns out that the real Milinko died during the war. So someone stole his name. The criminal is declared wanted throughout the Soviet Union, but the crimes continue.

An old soldier has come to Moscow to find his fellow soldiers. But he is plagued by misfortune: some have died, others have moved away, and he mumbles confusedly to the taxi driver as he gives him another address: "Here... not far..."

Ninth graders Genka and Anya crash the girl's father's car. Misha, having earned money from the photos, gives money to his friends, but they are not enough. Then Genka steals a video camera from the school's art studio, draws his father into this story, and does not yet know that a shot will follow very soon...

White little bear hides from his mother friendship with a human who smells smoke.

Eternally dissatisfied with his wife, a man goes in search of a new one.

A story about young dreamer, summer at countryside and a first love.

The action takes place in Kurzeme in the 17th century. The Duke of Courland, the King of Poland and the German barons want power over the Latvian people. Farmers are the biggest victims of this power struggle.

As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina, who sells cigarettes on the sidewalk, and he frequently buys cigarettes from her even though he does not smoke. One day, a film crew uses Zina as an extra in an outdoor scene, and the cameraman, Latugin, falls in love with her. Latugin soon arranges an acting job for Zina. To complicate matters further, Zina has yet another admirer in Oliver MacBride, an American businessman who is visiting Moscow.

Once upon a time, there lived two brothers — Foma and Yerema. But around the neighborhood, everyone called them by their nicknames: Nedodel (Undone) and Peredel (Overdone), because each of them had a particular trait. Foma, whenever he started a task, would abandon it before even managing to put any effort into it. As for his brother Yerema, it was the complete opposite — no matter what task he took on, he would always overdo it. One day, the two "craftsmen" decided to go and learn some common sense.

An old man Kokovanya took to live to itself in a forest hut orphan Darenka. In the forest they saw an unusual goat who had a silver hoof. At what point will he stamped with his hoof — there will be a gemstone.