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- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsLiya AkhedzhakovaOlga VolkovaValentin GaftMany of respectable citizens become tramps after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- DirectorAleksandr ProshkinStarsValeriy PriyomykhovAnatoliy PapanovViktor StepanovFormer political inmates Sergei and Nikolai live as exiles in a remote Siberian village. After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.
- DirectorAlbert S. MkrtchyanStarsNatalya BelokhvostikovaIgor KostolevskiyAlbina MatveyevaA Moscow theater actor enters into a fictitious marriage with a homeless war refugee, so that she can live in his apartment.
- DirectorLeonid MenakerStarsAnna KamenkovaVladlen BiryukovGalina MakarovaTo spite the deceiver-groom, young Manya marries a widower with a child. Difficult love in the Soviet countryside.
- DirectorOleg BondarevStarsTatyana DoroninaLeonid NevedomskyNadezhda FedosovaThe news suddenly comes to the family of Pavel Olevantsev that his daughter has been orphaned by another woman. Pavel did not know about the existence of the girl, and his wife could not know about it either.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsOleg ZhakovNatalya BelokhvostikovaVasiliy ShukshinEarly 70s environmentalist drama centers on a tension between the love a professor's daughter feels for an industrialist whose scheme risks pollution of Lake Baikal, and her father's devotion toward preservation of natural beauty.
- DirectorVytautas ZalakeviciusStarsKazimieras VitkusRegimantas AdomaitisBruno O'Ya1947 year. Armed gangs are still hiding in Lithuanian forests. One after another, four village council chairmen were killed. Now old Lokis is dead. At the funeral, his four sons swear to destroy the Brownie gang. And Vaitkus, a former "forest brother", was forcibly put in place of Lokis.
- DirectorAleksei SaltykovStarsMikhail UlyanovIvan LapikovNonna MordyukovaAfter World War II ends, soldier Yegor Trubnikov comes back to his native village to restore the ruined collective farm facilities. Rebuilding the kolkhoz is as hard for him as fighting the war.
- DirectorSamson SamsonovStarsMargarita VolodinaBoris AndreyevVyacheslav TikhonovAs the communist revolt progresses in Russia, a female commissar is dispatched to some anarchist sailors to get them on board the party bandwagon.
- DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsNina DrobyshevaEvgeniy UrbanskiyNatalya KuzminaDuring the 1950s Sasha Lvova reminisces about the WW2 years when she fell in love with Soviet fighter pilot Aleksei Astakhov.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaIgor TalankinStarsBoris BarkhatovSergey BondarchukIrina SkobtsevaThe mother of a 5 years old Seryozha remarries. This man becomes a friend and a confident, an adult who see Seryozha not as a child, but as a person.
- DirectorAleksandr ZarkhiStarsNikolay RybnikovInna MakarovaGennadi Karnovich-ValuaA team of installers under the leadership of brigadier Nikolai Pasechnik are arriving for the construction of the blast furnace. At the construction site, Nikolai meets welder Ekaterina. He tries to care for her, but they often quarrel.
- DirectorPyotr TodorovskiyStarsNikolay BurlyaevNatalya AndreychenkoInna ChurikovaThis melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. Now he learns that she is alone with a small daughter, the girl's father having been killed at the front. Naturally, he seeks to help them but his wife is not so understanding...
- DirectorKirill LavrovIvan PyrevMikhail UlyanovStarsMikhail UlyanovLionella PyryevaKirill LavrovThree brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastery, the other - a gambler, and the third - an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.
- DirectorAbram RoomStarsDmitri DorlyakOlga ZhiznevaYuri YuryevThe characters debate the role of free love and free will within the Soviet social and political economy.
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovIsidor SimkovStarsLyubov OrlovaYevgeniya MelnikovaVladimir VolodinIn the mid-1930s, circus actress Marion Dixon flees the United States with her young black son. Arriving with an original attraction in the USSR, she finds friends here and decides to stay forever.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsSergei LukyanovMarina LadyninaAleksandr KhvylyaIn the steppes of the Kuban love is born on two collective farms while wheat is (enthusiastically) gathered. Galina, the energetic chairwoman of one of the two kolkhozes, vies with her male counterpart for the best harvest. At the same time Gordey, her rival, a former soldier, is (and has been for ages) in love with her. On her part, Dasha a collective farm worker, has heartbeat for a young technician of the competing kolkhoz...
- DirectorSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei AbrikosovThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
- DirectorFridrikh ErmlerStarsEmil GalSergey GerasimovYakov GudkinA story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.
- DirectorVictor A. TurinResisting 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 arid plains of Turkestan to the icy Siberian mountains. This unique film tells the story of the creation of a monumental Soviet construction project - a railway that connected Central Asia and Siberia.
- DirectorEsfir ShubStarsMikhail AlekseyevAlexei BrusilovNikolai ChkheidzeIn May 1913 the Romanov Dynasty celebrates its 300th anniversary at the Russian throne. The last emperor in the long line is Tsar Nicholas II. He rules over a country with huge social and economic differences. Russia is for the most part still an agrarian society, but capitalism and its industries are growing. In 1914 Russia gets involved in the First World War. Tsar Nicholas II declares a general mobilization. A vast number of peasants and workers have to go to the front as soldiers. After three years the country is ruined by the war, and there is a shortage of provisions. In February 1917 workers begin striking in the capital, Petrograd. Their protests are soon joined by soldiers. A complete anarchy is threatening the country, when the parliament, called the duma, reorganizes the power structure by forming a new Provisional Government. At the same time the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies forms another ruling body at the City Hall of Petrograd. In this situation Tsar Nicholas II sees no other possibility than to resign from his government. On the 4th of March 1917 he declares his abdication from the throne. The new Provisional Government and its war minister Kerensky continue the war. This presents an opportunity for the Bolsheviks to organize demonstrations and to persuade the workers and soldiers to overthrow the Provisional Government and seize power themselves.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevLeonid TraubergStarsDavid GutmanYelena KuzminaAndrei KostrichkinIn the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the love story between a young sales girl and a soldier unable to decide if he was pro or against the radical fashion? Two short months were needed for the answer to be found - in blood and tears, and under rain that washes all past memories. Any day, a New Babylon shop will open with frilly things for the bourgeois girls. The washerwomen will be there to wash them.
- DirectorAbram RoomStarsVladimir FogelNikolay BatalovLyudmila SemyonovaA married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsNikolai NademskySemyon SvashenkoAleksandr PodorozhnyyAn old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsSemyon SvashenkoGeorgi KhorkovAmvrosi BuchmaA soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoYuliya SolntsevaStarsEvgeniy SamoylovIvan SkuratovLuka LyashenkoBiography of Ukrainian revolutionary Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors. Shchors leads the peasants and workers to advance on Kyiv.
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsVera BaranovskayaNikolay BatalovAleksandr ChistyakovA story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsGrigoriy AleksandrovMaksim ShtraukhMikhail GomorovA group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovSergei EisensteinStarsBoris LivanovNikolay PopovVasili NikandrovA large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
- DirectorLevon IsahakyanHenrik MalyanStarsLeonid YengibarovI. ShestuaI. DanzasFamous Soviet Armenian clown Leonid Yengibarov stars in this film about the artistic quest of a talented circus actor.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovSerafima BirmanPavel KadochnikovAs Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyEduard AbalovStarsNikolay BurlyaevValentin ZubkovEvgeniy ZharikovDuring WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsNikita MikhalkovVitali SolominSergey ShakurovIn the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.
- DirectorEdmond KeosayanStarsVasiliy VasilevViktor KosykhValentina KurdyukovaTeenagers take revenge on cruel chieftains during the civil war. Soviet blockbuster in the best traditions of the western
- DirectorVitaliy MelnikovStarsOleg DalIrina KupchenkoIrina ReznikovaEngineer Zilov, having woken up, finds the funeral wreath at his place - his friends' present. This rather symbolic joke makes him recollect the previous night as well as 2 last months.
- DirectorRoman BalayanStarsOleg YankovskiyLyudmila GurchenkoOleg TabakovOn the eve of his fortieth birthday, a man realizes nothing he has achieved in his life has amounted to very much.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey PetrenkoAnatoliy RomashinVelta LineDetails the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
- DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsIzolda IzvitskayaOleg StrizhenovNikolay KryuchkovAn unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
- DirectorVladimir VengerovStarsOleg BorisovLyudmila GurchenkoNikolai SimonovSoldier Pleshcheev returned from the war blind. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness. Thus tormenting his wife and teenage son. The wife cannot stand it, and the son stays with his father at a difficult moment - this is how they live together until Pleshchev's old friend returns from the army.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsLarisa GolubkinaYuriy YakovlevIgor IlyinskyA young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles.
- DirectorLeonid BykovStarsLeonid BykovSergey PodgornyySergei IvanovDuring World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsLeonid FilatovTatyana DogilevaIrina KupchenkoA former musician must make a hard choice between freedom with mistress and comfortable life with wife.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsSvetlana KarpinskayaNikolay RybnikovErast GarinAll funny adventures of Pashka Gusarov started the moment he fell in love with Katya.
- DirectorRoman BalayanStarsOleg YankovskiyTatyana DrubichAleksandr AbdulovA stranger intrudes into life of a lovely couple. It doesn't take a lot of efforts from him to ruin their happiness.
- DirectorAleksey KorenevStarsGalina PolskikhYevgeniya KhanayevaEvgeniy EvstigneevMultiple love stories are going around the young family, including the newlyweds, parents, and even a grandmother.
- DirectorMarlen KhutsievStarsRostislav PlyattAndrey MyagkovThe elderly Alexey Borisovich arrives in Moscow to visit his daughter. He discovers that she is away on a business trip. Alexey has to spend time with his son-in-law, Vladimir Shvyrkov, until she returns.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsSergey BondarchukPavel BoriskinZinaida KirienkoA Soviet soldier, Andrei Sokolov, has been separated from his family by World War II. Suffering in German captivity, he dreams of meeting his darlings after the victory. But cruel fate turned out otherwise.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsLyudmila SavelevaVyacheslav TikhonovSergey BondarchukThe Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.
- DirectorAlla SurikovaStarsGalina PolskikhFrunzik MkrtchyanLeonid KuravlyovMarriage is a quite complicated thing, let alone love.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsYuriy BogatyryovAnatoliy SolonitsynSergey ShakurovSet during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia
- DirectorGrigoriy AronovAleksey GermanStarsAndrei PopovAleksandr AnisimovGeorgiy ShtilThe film is set in St. Petersburg, Russia after the Russian revolution of 1917. Based on the eponymous book by Boris Lavrenev. Maj. General Yevgeni Pavlovich Adamov (Popov) was a lawyer in the Tzar's Army and a professor of law at the Military Academy before the Russian Revolution. In the fall of 1918 he was arrested on false accusations and suffered the loss of all his property and honors. During the turbulent times of Revolution he managed to use all his experience and professionalism to prove his innocence. He was released from prison and all charges against him were dropped. He became a free man, but the reality is changed, and his adaptation to the post-revolutionary life was not easy.
- DirectorEldar ShengelaiaStarsRamaz GiorgobianiVasil KakhniashviliTeimuraz ChirgadzeAn author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevStarsNikolay CherkasovYuriy TolubeevSerafima BirmanSenor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard.
- DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsMayya BulgakovaSergey NikonenkoZhanna BolotovaA fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the military ideas of service and obedience that she cannot adjust to life in peacetime.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsStarsIya SavvinaAleksey BatalovNina AlisovaA love story among the nobility of the Russian Empire: a man and a woman, both married, fall in love.
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsAleksei AnanishnovEskender UmarovIrina SokolovaDays of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.
- DirectorGennady ShpalikovStarsInna GulayaKirill LavrovYelizaveta AkulichevaA pack of guitar-wielding hikers board the bus back to the city; a stranger falls hard for one of the passengers, the very young and very married Lena.
- DirectorElyor IshmukhamedovStarsMariya SternikovaRodion NakhapetovRogshan AgzamovThree interrelated stories of thwarted young love in summertime Tashkent. Visually striking with some memorable images and two heartfelt performances, but the story line is difficult to follow as the subtitles are often lost in the bright sunlight through the trees or off the water.
- DirectorVytautas ZalakeviciusSándor KöõStarsDonatas BanionisRegimantas AdomaitisMargit LukácsA secret operation, code-named "Centaurs" is launched by forces to topple the President of a South American country, and his regime.
- DirectorVadim AbdrashitovStarsOleg BorisovYury BelyayevIrina RozanovaA Soviet allegory made during the somewhat more permissive atmosphere under Gorbachev, of the sometimes puzzling relationship between a master and a slave.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsIya SavvinaLyubov SokolovaAleksandr SurinAbout gentle, tender and proud love of Asya, a lame woman, and the driver Stepan who is a good-for-nothing person.
- DirectorKonstantin LopushanskiyStarsRolan BykovIosif RyklinViktor MikhaylovIn the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son.