Õhtust hommikuni 1962
During the German occupation of Estonia a young mother finds a Red Army soldier hiding in the hay in her barn.
Trail of the Falcon 1968
In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, an area which has already been allocated to the Dakota Indians as a winter reservation…
O-Roshiya-koku suimu-tan 1992
This epic story starts out interesting, if rather gently paced, and gradually builds up to involving and terrific. The scenery and cinematography range from grim to spectacular, and are always…
The Blue Bird 1976
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl (Patsy Kensit) and her brother Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland), are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness (Nedezhda Pavlova) by…
Vesna na Zarechnoy ulitse 1956
A newly appointed Russian literature teacher develops a strong connection with one of her flagging students.
Ballad of a Soldier 1959
During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a medal as a reward for a heroic act at the front. Instead of this medal he asks for a…
Happy Days 1991
The story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.
Heart of a Dog 1988
Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human’s hypophysis into a dog’s brain. Couple of weeks later the dog became “human looking”. The main question is…
The Deluge 1974
During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz….
Come Tomorrow 1962
Young girl from the country come to Moscow, she wants to get into University, but it’s too late… Anyway, she won’t give up and will do everything to get a…
War and Peace 1965
Eight-hour epic based on the book of the same name by Lev Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova…
Father of a Soldier 1964
During World War II, Georgy Makharashvili, an old peasant wine-grower, leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front lines to find his son, a wounded soldier. But before…
They Fought for Their Country 1975
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Red army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating soviet troops…
Stride, Soviet! 1926
Dziga Vertov records the achievements, and some failures, of the Moscow soviet.
Wings of Victory 1941
Valeriy Chkalov is a name-dream, a name-legend and not only for passionate admirers of the heavenly spheres. He became the first pilot to cross the North Pole and land in…
Courier 1986
Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he’s not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military…
Piloti 1989
A Man from Boulevard des Capucines 1987
Mr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.
Amphibian Man 1962
People living in a seaside town are frightened by reports about an unknown creature in the ocean. Nobody knows what it is, but it’s really the son of Doctor Salvator….
Ühe küla mehed 1962
After a stormy night on the sea, a group of Estonian fishermen end up in a small coastal Finnish town. As they await the Soviet authorities to take them back…
Zerograd 1988
An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a…
Ma-ma 1976
Mrs. Rada the Goat tells her five children to behave while she goes to the fair, and under no circumstances open the door to anyone except her. But the Big…
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story 1983
An author – a passive young man – enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
Viy 1967
Getting lost, wandering home whilst on leave from his seminary, novice monk Khoma stays in the barn of an old woman. A scuffle breaks out. Later, he is summoned to…
Aprili 1961
A young happy couple moves from a poor district to a new housing estate. Their relationship gets progressively worse as their comfort and possessions increase.
Mother 1926
Russian director Vsevolod I. Pudovkin’s “Mother” is the chronicle of an individual’s transformation from political naivete to Marxist awareness set during the 1905 Russian Revolution. Pudovkin uses innovative montage techniques…
Storm Over Asia 1928
In 1918 a simple Mongolian herdsman escapes to the hills after brawling with a western capitalist fur trader who cheats him. In 1920 he helps the partisans fight for the…
Shakhmatnaya goryachka 1925
With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his…
Konets Sankt-Peterburga 1927
A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old village friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed peasant is…
Travels of Mr. Kleks 1986
Mr. Kleks visits at night, a boy who is a patient at the hospital. He decides to tell him a story, starting with the fact that Great Elektronik together with…
Favourites of the Moon 1984
Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, art dealers, and inventors,…
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t 1977
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women’s movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps…
Three Songs About Lenin 1934
Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin’s role in creating them.
Turksib 1929
Resisting the character-driven narrative adhered to by the rest of the world’s filmmakers, Victor Turin formulated a grand, elemental drama centered around the struggle for survival in Asia, from the…
Enthusiasm 1930
How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.
Torpedo Bombers 1983
In world-war two,a Soviet naval aviation unit stationed near Murmansk is equipped with torpedo fighter-bombers.Their task is to fight off the German bombers that regularly attack the British Navy convoys…
The Cranes Are Flying 1957
As the clouds of war spread over Russia during Germany’s surprise invasion in 1941, the fervent young lovers, the sensitive Veronika and the stalwart Boris, are parted when the patriotic…
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova 1966
In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels…
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov 1967
The 500,000 strong Napoleon’s army moves through Russia and causes much destruction culminating in the battle of Borodino. The Russian army has to retreat. Moscow is occupied, looted and burned…
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky 1965
The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel . In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to…