Soundtrack: Mikhail Ziv

Direction Lev Kulidzhanov

Cast Georgi Taratorkin · Innokenti Smoktunovsky · Tatyana Bedova · Maya Bulgakova

Direction Grigori Chukhrai

Cast Vladimir Ivashov · Zhanna Prokhorenko · Antonina Maksimova · Nikolay Kryuchkov

Plot During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a medal as a reward for a heroic act at the front. Instead of this medal he asks for a...

Direction Grigori Chukhrai

Cast Nina Drobysheva · Yevgeni Urbansky · Natalya Kuzmina · Vitaly Konyaev

Direction Roman Kachanov

Direction Boris Stepantsev

Plot A Nazi soldier tries to force a young Soviet boy scout to play a German song on his violin. Instead he defiantly plays the [then] Soviet national anthem, “The International,”...

Direction Lev Kulidzhanov

Cast Mikhail Kuznetsov · Mark Nikelberg · Nikolai Lebedev · Aleksandr Paleev

Direction Anatoli Karanovich

Plot Based on a popular children’s poem by Samuel Marshak, Anatoly Karanovich’s animation is a cheerful indictment of American racism. The titular millionaire visits Leningrad from Chicago and turns several shades...

Direction Grigori Chukhrai

Cast Nonna Mordyukova · Vadim Spiridonov · Andrey Nikolaev · Valentina Telichkina

Plot During the Great Patriotic War, Matryona decided at all costs to save her youngest son and protected him from being recruited by the army in the attic of his house.

Direction Mayya Buzinova · Iosif Douksha

Direction Grigori Chukhrai