Soundtrack: Alfred Shnitke

Direction Larisa Shepitko

Cast Boris Plotnikov · Vladimir Gostyukhin · Sergei Yakovlev · Lyudmila Polyakova

Plot Set in WWII, it tells the story of two Soviet partisans who break from their squad to find food for the civilians they are escorting to the next safe encampment....

Direction Chris Marker

Plot This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film...

Direction Elem Klimov

Cast Larisa Shepitko · Elem Klimov · Valentin Rasputin · Stefaniya Stanyuta

Plot A loving film tribute to Russian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko, who died tragically in a car accident in 1979 at the age of 40. This documentary by her husband, Elem Klimov,...

Direction Aleksandr Askoldov

Cast Nonna Mordyukova · Rolan Bykov · Raisa Nedashkovskaya · Lyudmila Volynskaya

Direction Elem Klimov

Cast Stefaniya Stanyuta · Lev Durov · Aleksei Petrenko · Leonid Kryuk

Plot Matyoroy is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. It has been decided that the island shall be flooded and returned to the sea. This is...

Direction Elem Klimov

Cast Aleksei Petrenko · Anatoli Romashin · Velta Line · Alisa Freyndlikh

Plot Details 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...

Direction Andrei Konchalovsky

Cast Irina Anisimova-Wulf · Sergei Bondarchuk · Irina Kupchenko · Yekaterina Mazurova

Plot A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother...

Direction Andrei Khrzhanovsky

Direction Konstantin Lopushansky

Cast Viktor Mikhaylov · Vera Mayorova · Vadim Lobanov · Irina Rakshina

Plot Civilization as we know it has been destroyed, but remnants remain. In this story, a man has set his heart on visiting a famous pre-apocalypse museum which is now isolated...

Direction Gavriil Yegiazarov

Cast Georgi Zhzhyonov · Anatoli Kuznetsov · Vadim Spiridonov · Boris Tokarev

Plot In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River...

Direction Lev Atamanov

Direction Chris Marker

Direction Andrei Khrzhanovsky

Plot For adults. It is a parable about the person who was so afraid of life that he put himself voluntarily in a huge wardrobe (a variation of a theme of...

Direction Ilya Averbakh

Cast Marina Neyolova · Andrey Mironov · Zinaida Sharko · Liliya Gritsenko

Plot A funny and sad story of mismatched love, family and life surprises.

Direction Andrey Smirnov

Cast Natalya Rudnaya · Leonid Kulagin · Natalya Gundareva · Alexandr Fatiushin

Plot Two old lovers reunite to see if they were meant to be together; the effort teaches them plenty about the true nature of love.

Direction Aleksandr Mitta

Cast Georgi Zhzhyonov · Anatoli Vasilyev · Leonid Filatov · Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae

Direction Andrey Smirnov

Cast Aleksei Glazyrin · Evgeni Leonov · Anatoli Papanov · Vsevolod Safonov

Plot A sympathetic, emotionally persuasive drama describing the friendship of four World War II veterans, their sudden reunion after 25 years and the subsequent effect of this occasion upon their thoughts...

Direction Aleksandr Mitta

Cast Andrey Mironov · Tatyana Aksyuta · Lev Durov · Kseniya Piryatinskaya

Direction Igor Talankin

Cast Sergey Bondarchuk · Valentina Titova · Vladislav Strzhelchik · Nikolai Gritsenko

Direction Yuli Karasik

Cast Alla Demidova · Vladimir Chetverikov · Nikolai Plotnikov · Lyudmila Savelyeva

Plot Based on Chehov's homonymus play the seagull narrates the story of a disturbed family and their aquiantances during summer time in the countryside. Mixed feeling resurface in the authentic chehovian...