Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions…
Stalker
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A…
Hedgehog in the Fog
A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect…
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Years eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious….
Mirror
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle
Bogdan Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of “Singing group”. He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close…
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
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 16th century Moscow,…
Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day
Another Russian Pooh story. This time the donkey, known from the Pooh stories as Eyeore, is sad because he has no tail. Pooh goes in search of one and finds…
Solaris
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He…
12 Chairs
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him – she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs…
Gentlemen of Fortune
A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed “Docent” who stole the priceless…
The White Sun of the Desert
The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today’s Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a…
Winnie-the-Pooh
With a cheeky, down-to-earth charm that appeals to both children and adults, the series – beginning with ‘Vinnie-Pukh (1969)’ – has since developed something of a cult following, and are…
The Color of Pomegranates
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular…
Junior and Karlson
A Soviet cult cartoon, so untypical for a Western viewer, especially, a little one. A boy named Malysh (“A Little One”) suffers from solitude being the youngest of the three…
The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers
The action takes place in 1920 during the Civil War. Crimea on the eve of complete liberation from the White Guards. Returning from patrol, the four brave “elusive” knocked down…
The Diamond Arm
In the southern town, a gang of “currency traders” is operating, led by the Chief and his assistant Kozodoyev. A modest Soviet clerk and an exemplary family man Semyon Semyonovich…
Aladdin and His Magic Lamp
A young boy finds a magic lantern that contains a genie, and when he frees the genie he’s granted three wishes. He uses the wishes to help the princess of…
Viy
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with…
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
In this comic but dated story, nerdy Shurik travels to Caucas in search of native legends and folklore. But what he finds is a beautiful girl whom, due to intoxication…
The Elusive Revengers
Dan’ka’s and Ksanka’s childhood in the village has been brutally ended when their father was killed by the White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge they join…
Andrei Rublev
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually…
Children of Don Quixote
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
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…
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father’s killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life…
Operation Y and Other Shurik’s Adventures
The film consists of three independent parts: “Workmate”, “Déjà vu” and “Operation Y”. The plot follows the adventures of Shurik (alternative spelling — Shourick), the naive and nerdy Soviet student…
Welcome, or No Trespassing
A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
Father of a Soldier
During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer…
Father Frost
A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.
A Tale of Lost Times
Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to return to…
The Girls
A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Boris Blednyy. A graduate of the culinary technical school of the cook, Tosya Kislitsyna, a naive and eccentric girl,…
Amphibian Man
People living at a seashore town are frightened by reports of an unknown creature called “the sea devil”. Nobody knows what it is, but it’s really the son of doctor…
Ivan’s Childhood
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
Yevdokiya
On the outskirts of the provincial town, Yevdokim and Yevdokiya live, raising foster children. Yevdokim works at a factory, Yevdokiya is a housewife. The family seems to be safe and…
The Steamroller and the Violin
Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally…
A Home for Tanya
The adopted daughter of Dr. Skvortsov, Tanya, having learned that her mother Natalya Avdeyevna is alive, who was considered dead during the bombing of World War II, decides to go…
The Adventures of Buratino
A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio…
Fate of a Man
The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent…
Ballad of a Soldier
During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides…
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars’ Plot
This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of…