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…
Come and See 1985
The feature film directed by Elem Klimov, shot in the genre of military drama. The action takes place on the territory of Belarus in 1943. In the center of the…
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,…
Mister Blot’s Academy 1984
Ten-year-old Adas, beginning his education at the Academy, finds the hideout of Bird Matt, who used to be a prince. Touched by his fate, he promises to find the magic…
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…
Stalker 1979
In a small, unnamed country there’s an area called the Zone. It’s an unusual area, and within its a place known as the Room, where it’s believed wishes are granted….
Mirror 1975
Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his…
Waterloo 1970
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from…
The Color of Pomegranates 1969
One of cinema’s greatest masterpieces, Sergei Parajanov’s “The Color of Pomegranates,” a biography of the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova (King of Song) reveals the poet’s life more through his poetry…
Ivan’s Childhood 1962
During World War II, 12-year old Ivan works as a spy on the eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Soviet officers…
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars’ Plot 1958
His wife dead from poisoning and his chief warrior, Kurbsky, defected to the Poles, Ivan is lonely as he pursues a unified Russia with no foreign occupiers. Needing friendship, he…
Ivan the Terrible, Part I 1944
In 1547, Ivan IV (1530-1584), archduke of Moscow, crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory. In scenes of his coronation, his wedding to Anastasia, his…
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.
Kino Eye 1924
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing…
The Needle 1988
Moro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine…
Strike 1925
In Russia’s factory region during Czarist rule, there’s restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents. When a worker hangs himself after being falsely accused…
Hamlet 1964
When the king of Denmark dies suddenly, his son, crown prince Hamlet, returns home to find that his uncle Claudius has usurped the throne and married Hamlet’s recently widowed mother….
Alexander Nevsky 1938
It is the 13th century, and Russia is overrun by foreign invaders. A Russian knyaz’, or prince, Alexander Nevsky, rallies the people to form a ragtag army to drive back…
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! 1976
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Years eve. Incidentally, too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious….
Kin-dza-dza! 1986
Kin-Dza-Dza is something like an “advanced cyberpunk film”. It’s a lot about people and social structures which on the planet of “Pluke” of course have many parallels to our society….
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession 1973
Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to the 16th century…
Spider 1992
The artist needs a model to paint the Virgin Mary, and the pastor recommends him 18-year-old Vita. The more Vita meets the fiendish-looking artist, the more she seems to be…
The Forty-First 1956
A detachment of the Red Army led by Commissar Yevsyukov is moving along the sands of the Central Asian desert, pursued by whites, dying of thirst. Forty killed officers were…
Cinerama’s Russian Adventure 1966
Following an introduction by Bing Crosby, the Cinerama screen widens for scenes of landscapes, cities, peoples, and entertainments of the Soviet Union. Highlights include the historic buildings and churches of…
The Long Farewell 1971
A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. When Sasha grew up to become a teenager, he got tired of the nagging of her…
Tsareubiytsa 1991
A patient in a modern day mental institution believes that he is the man who assassinated Tsar Alexander in 1881 and Tsar Nicolas II in 1918. He and his doctor…
Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano 1977
Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general’s widow, Anna Petrovna. Sofia, the new wife of Anna’s step-son, recognizes Misha, the brother-in-law…
Operation ‘Y’ & Other Shurik’s Adventures 1965
The movie consists of 3 short movies, each about Shurik – a nerdy student.. 1. “Naparnik” (“Partner”). Shurik has a fight in a bus with a bully named Fedya because…
Brief Encounters 1967
Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya’s apartment. Valya, who is a member of the local District Committee, does not know that Nadia fell…
Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel 1979
Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be all right. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them out…
Sunflower 1970
An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.
Gentlemen of Fortune 1971
A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed “Docent” who stole the priceless headpiece of Alexander the Great during an archaeological expedition. But after militia “inputs”…
Siberiade 1979
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the…
Vasilisa the Beautiful 1940
Vasilisa Prekrasnaya, (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Two of the boys come home with perfectly normal girls, but the…
White Sun of the Desert 1970
A soldier of the Red Army named Sukhov has been fighting in the Russian Civil War in Russian Asia for many years. Just as he is about to return home…