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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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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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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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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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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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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About the life of the famous Kyrgyz akyn.
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Biographical film story about the first Russian space explorer, inventor scientist, rocket-maker K. E. Tsiolkovsky.
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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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Loneliness
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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 comedy about an army squad guarding the fake airport during WWII.
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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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A Russian peasant woman is captured by Nazis and sold into slavery in Germany. Shown in Cannes in 1946.
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A criminal story which happened in a small Russian town.
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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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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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