Cast: Vasili Zajchikov

Direction Yakov Protazanov

Cast Lev Sverdlin · M. Mirzakarimova · K. Mikhajlov · Emmanuil Geller

Direction Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Lyubov Orlova · Nikolai Cherkasov · Nikolai Konovalov · Faina Ranevskaya

Synopsis A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal growth, professional success, love, and happiness.

Direction Ivan Pyryev

Cast Vladimir Druzhnikov · Marina Ladynina · Boris Andreyev · Vera Vasilyeva

Synopsis His right hand having been wounded during the war, concert pianist Andrei Balashov is unable to perform his art. As a result, the young man feels so depressed that he considers his life wasted. One day, he decides to leave...

Direction Mikhail Romm

Cast Yelena Kuzmina · Vladimir Balashov · Tatyana Barysheva · Gregori Greif

Synopsis This disturbingly realistic drama concerns a Russian peasant girl named Tanya (Yelena Kuzmina) who, upon being captured by the Nazis in the early stages of WWII, is forced into slave labor. Sold to a bourgeois German family, Tanya is treated...

Direction Leonid Lukov

Cast Ivan Pelttser · Ivan Novoseltsev · Stepan Kayukov · Yuri Lavrov

Direction Efim Dzigan

Cast Vasili Zajchikov · Georgi Bushuyev · Nikolay Ivakin · Oleg Zhakov

Synopsis In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment (made up of communist Reds) defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces. Director Yefim Dzigan had himself fought for the Bolsheviks in the fleet,...

Direction Sergei Gerasimov · Mikhail Kalatozov

Cast Boris Babochkin · Tamara Makarova · Aleksandr Khvylya · Nikolai P. Cherkasov

Direction Igor Savchenko

Cast Nikolai Mordvinov · Boris Bezgin · Nikita Ilchenko · Mikhail Zharov