Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

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...

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Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian...

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Carnival

Carnival

A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her...

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Exodus

Exodus

It shows how the October Revolution affected the hearts of the Mongolian people, and how they defeated the white bandit Baron Ungern at the...

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Flames on the Volga

Flames on the Volga

Drama of the life of a peasant family, who came to work in the fisheries of Astrakhan. The film is set in the late XIX - early XX centuries.

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Mussorgsky

Mussorgsky

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician...

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Toktogul

Toktogul

About the life of the famous Kyrgyz akyn.

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The Man from Planet Earth

The Man from Planet Earth

Biographical film story about the first Russian space explorer, inventor scientist, rocket-maker K. E. Tsiolkovsky.

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Discovery

Discovery

This story is told by academician S. Yuryshev, Director of the Institute of applied biochemistry. The events in it are developing in 20 years...

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First Trials

First Trials

Loneliness

Loneliness

Крутые ступени

Крутые ступени

Academician Ivan Pavlov

Academician Ivan Pavlov

Russia, 1875: In Riazan’, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitability of his death; to Pavlov’s dismay, he...

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A Noisy Household

A Noisy Household

A comedy about an army squad guarding the fake airport during WWII.

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How the Steel Was Tempered

How the Steel Was Tempered

This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as...

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Girl No. 217

Girl No. 217

A Russian peasant woman is captured by Nazis and sold into slavery in Germany. Shown in Cannes in 1946.

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No Margin for Error

No Margin for Error

A criminal story which happened in a small Russian town.

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The Invasion

The Invasion

A Russian village struggles through the German occupation during World War II in this tense drama from the Soviet Union. As the town doctor finds...

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Костёр бессмертия

Костёр бессмертия

Silver Trumpets

Silver Trumpets

The former Red Army commander begins by reading the first manuscripts to his friends, and soon becomes a famous children's writer.

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