Soundtrack: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Anatoly Solonitsyn · Ivan Lapikov · Nikolai Sergeyev · Nikolai Grinko

Plot Divided in seven sections, 'Andrei Rublev' focuses on the life of the great Russian painter while taking a gaze at medieval Russia during the first quarter of the 15th century,...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Nikolay Burlyaev · Valentin Zubkov · Yevgeni Zharikov · Stepan Krylov

Plot The film is centered around a 12 year old Russian boy, Ivan, whose parents died at the hands of Germans invading Russia during the Second World War. In striving single-mindedly...

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Lyudmila Savelyeva · Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Gennadi Ivanov · Anatoli Ktorov

Plot War and Peace (1968) is an eight-hour epic film based on the eponymous book by Leo Tolstoy. Two main story-lines are complex and intertwined. One is the love story of...

Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Cast Stepan Shkurat · Semyon Svashenko · Yuliya Solntseva · Yelena Maksimova

Plot Dovzhenko's "film poem" style brings to life the collective experience of life for the Ukranian proles, examining natural cycles through his epic montage. He explores life, death, violence, sex, and...

Direction Andrei Konchalovsky

Cast Bolot Beyshenaliyev · Natalya Arinbasarova · Idris Nogajbayev · Darkul Kuyukova

Plot Soviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village. He is a teacher, sent by the Communist Party to teach the ignorant...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Ígor Fomchenko · Vladimir Zamansky · Nina Arkhangelskaia · Marina Adjoubey

Plot The film tells a very simply story of friendship between an artistic, sensitive seven-year-old violinist named Sasha and a physical, blue-collar steamroller operator. They befriend each other after Sasha is...

Direction Andrei Konchalovsky

Cast Irina Kupchenko · Leonid Kulagin · Beata Tyszkiewicz · Tamara Chernova

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Vasili Shukshin · Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Sergei Bondarchuk · Georgi Burkov

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Sergei Bondarchuk · Alyona Bondarchuk · Gennadi Mitrofanov · Valeriy Storozhik

Plot Boris Godunov came to the Czarist throne at the end of the 16th century, after the original heir to Ivan the Terrible had died. At first, things went well for...

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Sergei Bondarchuk · Lyudmila Savelyeva · Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Viktor Stanitsyn

Plot As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant,...

Direction Gennadi Shpalikov

Cast Inna Gulaya · Kirill Lavrov · Yelizaveta Akulicheva · L. Babenko

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Oleg Kuznetsov · Nikolay Trofimov · Vladimir Sedov · Sergei Bondarchuk

Plot A boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city.

Direction Sergey Bondarchuk

Cast Lyudmila Savelyeva · Sergey Bondarchuk · Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Viktor Stanitsyn

Plot Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Lyudmila Savelyeva · Sergei Bondarchuk · Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Viktor Stanitsyn

Plot Natasha Rostova, a young Russian aristocrat, meets prince Andrey Bolkonskiy at a ball and immediately falls in love with him.

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Lyudmila Savelyeva · Sergei Bondarchuk · Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Boris Zakhava

Plot In 1812, Napoleon’s Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch...

Direction Vytautas Zalakevicius

Cast Lorents Arushanyan · Regimantas Adomaitis · Bronius Babkauskas · Juozas Budraitis