Fast train N34 went exactly on schedule. The passengers were quietly getting ready for bed when the empty compartment from the outstanding cigarette lit more
Fast train N34 went exactly on schedule. The passengers were quietly getting ready for bed when the empty compartment from the outstanding cigarette lit up the curtain. Soon the wagon caught fire. Disaster is imminent. Railwaymen and passengers are working together to prevent misfortune and save hundreds of people… close
The film is based on the popular science-fiction novel “Professor Dowell’s Head” by Russian writer Alexander Belyaev. For many years, a prominent scientist more
The film is based on the popular science-fiction novel “Professor Dowell’s Head” by Russian writer Alexander Belyaev. For many years, a prominent scientist had been striving to solve the problem of immortality. He shared the results of his daring and risky experiments with his colleagues. But one day something happened that no one could have foreseen: the professor had disappeared. The best student and follower of Professor Dowell tries to use the results of his scientific research for criminal purposes. It looks like he is going to succeed… close
A group of hunters enters a ghost town in Central Asia with a mission to kill packs of abandoned, and now wild cannibal dogs. But tables turn and there more
A group of hunters enters a ghost town in Central Asia with a mission to kill packs of abandoned, and now wild cannibal dogs. But tables turn and there seems to be no way for the hunters to survive the horrific battle. close
A police is trying to fight the criminal organization responsible for the illegal export of arts abroad. He pretends to be a criminal to enter and destroy their gang.
A police is trying to fight the criminal organization responsible for the illegal export of arts abroad. He pretends to be a criminal to enter and destroy their gang. close
Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail more
Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail Romm's tributes to the Marxist visionary who helped orchestrate the insurrection of October, 1917. close
The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between more
The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between the Soviets and the "brothers in the woods", who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets after the end of the Second World War. close
“How Steel Was Tempered” is a six-part adaptation of the novel of the same name by Nikolai Ostrovsky, an autobiographical story of a short life obsessed more
“How Steel Was Tempered” is a six-part adaptation of the novel of the same name by Nikolai Ostrovsky, an autobiographical story of a short life obsessed with struggle.
The main character Pavel Krchagin (Paul Krchagin) Konstantin Stepankov ) convinced him forever that his life should be given to the cause of revolution. Having gone through all the horrors of the Civil War, being paralyzed and blind, he does not give up and writes a novel. close
An absorbing adventure action film by an acclaimed master of the genre, S. Gasparov (“The Sixth”, “Forget the Word ‘Death’”, “First Run, Last Run”). The more
An absorbing adventure action film by an acclaimed master of the genre, S. Gasparov (“The Sixth”, “Forget the Word ‘Death’”, “First Run, Last Run”). The Civil War. A foster home teacher is delivering grain for the starving children. Her accidental co-travelers are Chekist Gorbach, sailor Sasha, and stationmaster Zaytsev, who came into possession of three gold nuggets. And around them are the Reds, the Whites and the bandits. close
The main characters of the film is a company of students who have recently entered college. They just managed to taste the adult free life away from their more
The main characters of the film is a company of students who have recently entered college. They just managed to taste the adult free life away from their parents. Now the world has acquired new colors, and everyday life has become more saturated - filled with entertainment and interesting activities.
A stern physical education teacher in a technical school puts a “fail” to the whole group. The reason is simple - truancy. But adolescents cannot stand any morality from the lesson the man taught them and decide to teach him a lesson. close
A Space travel comes to an end and before the landing the Cosmonaut falls asleep. He does not hear signals from the Earth. The disaster approaches. When more
A Space travel comes to an end and before the landing the Cosmonaut falls asleep. He does not hear signals from the Earth. The disaster approaches. When the ship flies over the native house of the Cosmonaut, the ring of the alarm clock which the Grandfather winded up sounds and the Cosmonaut wakes up. close
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs more
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's earlier mania for relocating and eliminating whole ethnic groups and classes of people. These desperately unhappy people are unable to find any pleasure in this diverse companionship, but instead are antagonistic to it, and often resort to desperate measures in their doomed attempts to ease their pain. close
A young girl takes refuge in the woods to escape her mother's rages. Here she reenacts scenes of her physical and sexual abuse using stuffed dolls. It more
A young girl takes refuge in the woods to escape her mother's rages. Here she reenacts scenes of her physical and sexual abuse using stuffed dolls. It seems she wants her late father back, despite the sexual abuse, for at least he loved her. Now all she has left is her physically and mentally abusive mother. close
A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the more
A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… He wakes up! Thank God it was just a dream! Or was it? close
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 more
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. close
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking more
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra. close
On a holiday eve, everyone, especially one tired and chilly, does so need at least one living soul at one's side: it is bad to meet a holiday alone with more
On a holiday eve, everyone, especially one tired and chilly, does so need at least one living soul at one's side: it is bad to meet a holiday alone with oneself. Thus, on a New Year's Eve, the main characters meet, — a meeting of two solitudes. Chance brought two persons of disorderly lives together in a railway terminal.... kindling the hope for a normal, pure human life, the kind others have... close
Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing of the Nazis. After the raid, the children find themselves more
Spring of 1942. A train with evacuated children from the Dvinsky orphanage falls under the bombing of the Nazis. After the raid, the children find themselves in the occupied territory in the area of operations of the Belarusian partisan detachment. To find the people's avengers, the Nazis decide to use children. close
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other. close
A story about the soldiers of Soviet punishment battalion during WWII. Month of service in a punishment battalion was equated to ten years in prison...
A story about the soldiers of Soviet punishment battalion during WWII. Month of service in a punishment battalion was equated to ten years in prison... close
The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olha of Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rusʹ) at the start of the 11th century. more
The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olha of Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rusʹ) at the start of the 11th century. Inspired by chronicles and folk legends this is a story of a common girl Olha who married Prince Ihor and became his successor on the throne after his murder and one of the most remarkable political leaders in early medieval European history. She converted to Christianity and brought her realm into Europe. close
For the success gained by an unclean game, sooner or later you have to pay. This necessity falls on the main character of the picture “Rafferty”, the more
For the success gained by an unclean game, sooner or later you have to pay. This necessity falls on the main character of the picture “Rafferty”, the leader of the transport workers’ union. To his high position, he, Jack Rafferty, came up in dirty ways: ties with the mafia, bribing politicians at the expense of trade union funds, deception and betrayal. Worst of all, the grand jury will have to report on suspicion of corruption on TV channels across the country.
In the film, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Oleg Borisov, Evgenia Simonov, Alexander Kaidanovsky. close
When a young man wants to marry a poor girl, her cousin envies her very much. She even makes everybody believe that the main character was in love with more
When a young man wants to marry a poor girl, her cousin envies her very much. She even makes everybody believe that the main character was in love with her. He escapes from many difficulties in order to find his beloved who also became trapped in a luxurious villa with some strange relatives. The people inside villa are vampires, they were called upyri in those days in Russia. They suck blood of anyone who comes to see them. The young man too much in love so he looses his head and goes directly to the nest of vampires. close
The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War. Peasant Matryona Bystrova loses her husband at the front, then her eldest son goes missing. Matryona more
The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War. Peasant Matryona Bystrova loses her husband at the front, then her eldest son goes missing. Matryona decides to save the youngest son at all costs and shelters him from being drafted into the army in the attic of the house until the end of the war. But it turns out that saving her son, she condemns him to spiritual death, and herself to torment of conscience. A private story about the mother of a deserter grows to epic proportions... close
Katerina Izmailova, a beautiful and uneducated merchant's wife, feels lonely and bored somewhere in the Russian provinces while her older husband is often more
Katerina Izmailova, a beautiful and uneducated merchant's wife, feels lonely and bored somewhere in the Russian provinces while her older husband is often away. Years go by in her childless marriage, without an outlet for her youthful energy, resulting in constant idleness and frustration. Along comes Sergei, an unscrupulous young worker who is happy to improve his lot by seducing Katerina as he has done with others before. Katerina falls for Sergei, and this love quickly becomes her only reason for living, turning to destructive passion and ultimately to tragedy for many. close