Discoveries from Soviet Union World Cinema

The trial of the collective farm chairman Sagdaev, who deviated from some outdated rules of law in order to develop collective farm production.

A teleplay based on the play of the same name by N. Pogodin about the creation of a new grade of steel at a large metallurgical plant.

After the end of the civil war, sailor Ivan Ivanov, who dreams of working at the legendary Putilov factory, arrives in Petrograd to build a new life.

One day, the elephant—the pride of the zoo—leaves its enclosure and goes for a walk around the city. All attempts by the keepers to bring it back are unsuccessful. Only a five-year-old boy manages to establish contact with the giant animal.

This film was made in reaction to revanchism fear that Germany would reunite and seek revenge on Europe and the USSR for World War II. A disguised Nazi slips into the US zone of divided Germany. The Americans nurse him back to health as he plots how to reunite the Fatherland. His plans are ruined when he runs headlong into the Berlin Wall, erected by the USSR between East and West Berlin in 1961.

Co-operator Konstantin, returning from a business trip, finds a stranger at home. As it turned out, his friend gave the keys to Kostya’s apartment to his fellow students who were supposed to get married. But the bride Svetlana was late in the registry office, and the jealous bridegroom parted with her without hearing any explanations. Kostya allows Svetlana to stay in the apartment for a few more days ...

A young boy learns that his parents own a spyglass which allows them to keep track of his every move.

A small funny brown bear paced joyfully in the woods. More recently, he did not leave his mother at all and now he came to the lakeon his own. Butwhat he saw there amazed him. Now he has to deal with his own reflection in the water, which can be both bad and friendly.

A young girl is traveling from Siberia to Moscow in order to get help with the mink farm she is working in and which is suffering under incompetent management.

On his 18th birthday, Māris receives a motorcycle from his parents, and, while driving around with his friends, they pass a wedding car. The bride, Inese, is entering a loveless marriage, so she allows Māris to steal her from the wedding reception.

In the early 19th century a traveler returns to the remote outpost he’d visited years before, anxious to see the station master’s lovely daughter once again. There the brokenhearted old man tells him the story of the dashing fellow from Petersburg who whisked her away one winter morning.

Animation short.

The movie takes place at the construction of a tunnel in the Arctic Circle. A young engineer Andrei Arefyev is appointed head of the site. Between him and Nikolai Krumov, head of the neighboring site, there is a serious conflict. And it's not only about different professional approaches to construction methods in harsh conditions: Arefyev's favorite girl Svetlana, without any agony, preferred Krumov to him.

In the Carpathians during 1945, near the borders with Czechoslovakia, the last battles are going on. No one expects major military operations on this sector of the front. Peaceful life ahead. The German group, leaving the encirclement, is rapidly heading towards the city of Maritsa, where the Slovak partisans have just entered. Captain Novikov's small artillery battery receives an order to stop the German tanks at all costs...

A story of two delinquent boys at a boarding school, struggling to cope with fathers who abandoned them, and retreating into fantasy.

The second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo.

Libretto by Nikolai Kemarsky based on the novel of the same name by A.N. Tolstoy.

Pioneer Seryozha Emelyanov, who had never been to the steppe before, comes with his father, a chauffeur, for the harvest. The boy's preconceived ideas about farm life being terribly boring, change into love for nature.

The supplier was sent on a business trip to a neighboring city to buy components - spool valves, but the plant refused to help. The man began to look for solutions from the bureaucrats, obtaining spools through bribes. But upon his return, the public condemned him.

A young shepherd Yanka tries to save his beloved girl Marinka with the help of his magic fife.

The Russian revolutionary Bashilov was exiled by the tsarist authorities to Turkestan, to the waterless Hungry steppe. Here he saw the lack of rights, poverty and humiliation of the people. The intimidated dehkans are afraid even to stand up for the little Batyr, the son of Hakim, who raised his hand against the bai. And only Bashilov stands up for the boy and adopts him.

Agricultural technical school graduate Valya Didenko, having become a production leader and then a people's deputy, fell in love with her patron - the chairman of the collective farm. However, happiness was not destined to happen. Having deliberately violated long-outdated instructions, the chairman was accused of fraud and brought to trial.

The airborne trickster - Aleksei Tomylin, civil aviation pilot - one day decides to stop tempting fate and only flies directly. The airport where Tomylin works is near the border with Afghanistan. One day he receives the task to fly across the border and transfer a package with an order to catch a notorious saboteur. On his way back, Tomylin crash lands near an abandoned settlement - and soon finds himself taken hostage by a gang. The hero pretends to agree to take the saboteur abroad, and relies only on his expertise as a flying ace.....

Four friends - Aziz, Dima, Rano and Rustam are relaxing in a pioneer camp. One day they see the guys from the village with old cartridges found in a cave. Friends decide to reveal the secret of the cartridges...

About a little boy apprentice of an icon workshop who dreamed of becoming a circus clown.

Schoolteacher Spiridon and his pretty wife Despine are taking a room in a small inn. Tariel Mklavadze, a local nobleman and debauchee falls for a beauty of Despine. He and his friends terrify young couple trying to get Despine.

The handsome Sergei Kovalev decided that engineering was not his profession and left to live with relatives in the provincial town of Serebryanye Ozera. There he met the family of a young artist, unexpectedly became angry, and decided to take revenge on his new friend. The peculiar motorcycle duel ended tragically for Igor.

Actress Brio working in a cafe "The Happy Canary", does not suspect that her new acquaintances Brianski and Lugovec are Communists sent by an underground committee to fight the enemy's counter-intelligence.

A classic Soviet, black-and-white, animated film by the sisters Brumberg, "grandmothers of the Russian animation". Its plot differs slightly from the original fairy tale.

Dr. Ivan Nikolayevich received a bronze candelabrum as a gift from Sasha Smirnov, who was grateful for his cure. But the doctor is embarrassed: the candelabrum is very immodest - two completely naked naiads. The Doctor is thinking: who would he give this unfortunate present to? Suddenly he remembers that he owes lawyer Ukhov for his consultations. In turn, Ukhov, driven by the same feeling as the doctor, gets rid of the gift, giving it to the comic actor Shashkin on the day of the benefit. Shashkin, deciding that such a "work of art" could compromise him, sells the candelabrum to an antique bronze store owned by Sasha's mother Smirnov. And Sasha, delighted that at last he has found a match for the donated candelabrum, gives it to the doctor.

Footsteps are heard in the hospital at night. The door of the ward. An officer lies here, shell-shocked at the front. He received a certificate that he was under the protection of a doctor and no one could take him. And so he lies and remembers...

A musical comedy about students and graduates of a theater school - about young people who have just graduated from school and decided to go “to the artists” ... Sergey decides to live his whole life and live his life in a big city. He is going to Kiev! On the way, he meets on the roof of the train Lesik, who actually turns out to be a charming girl named Natasha ...

When Peter went to the war with the Nazis to the front, his son gave him a rhinoceros beetle he captured near his home, which the soldier took with him. Now they have to plunge into battle and fighting to see how the sky becomes black because of the gunpowder and the enemy siege, and hundreds of bullets are circling around them. But they will go back to where someone waits for them.

A film about the V All-Union amateur talent show of the labor reserves of the USSR republics. Volodya, Nina and Tigran, students of a crafts school, are constructing a "marvelous" TV set, on the screen of which, alternating with each other, are performances of creative teams.

An old man decides to find the body of his son, a Kazakh soldier who died fighting somewhere in Russia, to bury him in the land of his ancestors. Travelling across the land with his grandson, they discover the harsh reality of war. And when they finally find the coveted grave, they realise that many brothers-in-arms are buried with the soldier. Every inch of the great homeland becomes the land of our fathers, the land of the ancestors...

The war is over. The Red Army soldier Pyotr tries to find himself in a peaceful life. He takes the place of an accountant, and long-time friend Nazar, who has already grown to the post of the head of a collective farm, helps him in this. Together they achieve high performance indicators of their wards, skillfully solving controversial issues and emerging from confused situations.

How independent are we in our judgments? How do other people influence us? Being like everyone else is a natural desire of a child. He often succumbs to suggestion and passes out someone else's opinion for his own. But for an adult, this is a loss of personality, adaptability, conformism, which forms the psychology of a slave.

Based on the novel of the same name by E. Hemingway.

This time the Volk stumbles upon Zayats while Zayats is marching while playing a drum.

The oil industry is emerging in Baku. A poor young man named Jalil accidentally becomes the owner of an oilfield site. But unexpected wealth brings him one misfortune after another. His friends turn away from him, and the woman he loves leaves for another. A hero who dreamed of a home will never create a family.

Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his heart, all six fall under suspicion.

Teleplay about the scientific discoveries of the world-famous geologist Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev during the Great Patriotic War.

In a compartment of the Moscow-Novosibirsk train, a young physicist meets famous film actors. The conversation accidentally comes to Einstein, and the woman begins to explain to her fellow travelers what the theory of relativity is. The actors are incidentally on their way to the shooting of a film about physicists, but they do not understand the subject at all.

A dog survives a bad master and finds a good one - a sailor from a Soviet ship.

In 1916, a new Russian governor is sent to the Kazakhstan steppes by the Tsar and tries to impose mandatory military service upon the native Kazakhs. A popular uprising begins against the Tsarist empire. A Kazakh hero, Amangeldy Imanov, leads the revolt and allies with the Bolsheviks against the Kazakh clans loyal to the Tsar.

A few weeks from the life of a Komsomol leaders in Soviet Union.

The story of the heroic struggle of the hero Sosruko with the evil Demon, bringing eternal disasters to his people. Based on Adygean folk tales of Narte people.

Two proud fisherman families live on a very small island in Estonia. The two fishermen have always bore a grudge against each other. Their stubbornness and disobedience to German occupiers leads to dramatic events where staying alive is worse than death. Since it is impossible to escape public contempt, they have to decide how to redeem themselves.

A junior employee of the Forest Research Institute is sent to collect mushrooms. In the forest, he meets a strange old woman, receives a silver horn and a magic club as a gift from her, and after some time ends up in prison as a counterfeiter. His connections with the mysterious old woman do not end there.

Documentary made and dedicated to Sergei Parajanov shortly after his death, featuring archive photographs, his collages, and clips from several of his films.

Follows the construction of the Fergana Canal, which employed 170 thousand people, and Usman Yusupov was given a very specific task - in 45 days, a 270-kilometer-long canal should provide water to the cotton fields.

Olga and Butkevich, the head of the convoy, meet at a roadside cafe. They hadn't seen each other since the beginning of the war. During the conversation, it turns out that a man with the surname of Olga's first husband, whom she considers dead, is working in the convoy. Butkevich arranges a meeting for them. Olga does not recognize him.

At the center of the story is the story of the relationship between the employees of the service station and a hapless customer who has lost hope of getting his car.