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- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsGrigoriy AleksandrovMaksim ShtraukhMikhail GomorovA group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy AleksandrovIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- 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.
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinMikhail DollerStarsAleksandr ChistyakovVera BaranovskayaIvan ChuvelyovA peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsI. InkizhinovI. DedintsevValéry InkijinoffAfter a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War.
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovSergei EisensteinStarsBoris LivanovNikolay PopovVasili NikandrovA large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
- DirectorBoris BarnetStarsVera MaretskayaAnel SudakevichAda VoytsikA girl Parasha Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. This is a story about the house and its inhabitants.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsNikolai NademskySemyon SvashenkoAleksandr PodorozhnyyAn old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
- DirectorDziga VertovStarsMikhail KaufmanElizaveta SvilovaA man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovSergei EisensteinStarsMarfa LapkinaM. IvaninKonstantin Vasilyev100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsSemyon SvashenkoGeorgi KhorkovAmvrosi BuchmaA soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- 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.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsStepan ShkuratSemyon SvashenkoYuliya SolntsevaIn the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
- DirectorDziga VertovHow the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.
- DirectorNikolai EkkStarsNikolay BatalovYvan KyrlyaMikhail DzhagofarovYoung hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards. But crooks kill one of the young people when they try to damage the newly build railroad to that camp.
- DirectorBoris BarnetStarsYelena KuzminaMikhail ZharovNikolay BogolyubovOutskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.
- DirectorSergey VasilevGeorgi VasilyevStarsBoris BabochkinBoris BlinovVarvara MyasnikovaThis film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a decorated hero in the World War I and later in the Russian Civil War, that followed the Russian revolution. This man of action is fighting on the side of the poor people. His troops consist of peasants, just like him. Unable to write, he can brilliantly demonstrate various battle tactics by moving potatoes on the table. He is street smart. He never lost a battle against the experienced Generals of the Tzar's Army.
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovStarsLeonid UtyosovLyubov OrlovaMariya StrelkovaA musically talented shepherd gets his big chance when he is mistaken for a famous conductor.
- DirectorAleksandr MedvedkinStarsPyotr ZinovyevYelena YegorovaMikhail GipsiA hapless man undergoes misadventures with avaricious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary on his road to collectivized happiness.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevLeonid TraubergStarsBoris ChirkovValentina KibardinaMikhail TarkhanovA 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and has particular merits in realistic performance, photography and movement, plus some musical touches in way of folk songs."
- DirectorAbram RoomStarsDmitri DorlyakOlga ZhiznevaYuri YuryevThe characters debate the role of free love and free will within the Soviet social and political economy.
- DirectorBoris BarnetSamad MardanovStarsYelena KuzminaLev SverdlinNikolay KryuchkovTwo best friends shipwreck on an island in the Caspian Sea and fall in love with the same woman while helping the villagers of their new home.
- DirectorEfim DziganStarsVasiliy ZaychikovGeorgi BushuyevNikolay IvakinIn 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, so the Red sailors are the heroes of the film. The young Soviet State was besieged by enemies on all sides, and the Revolution was fighting for its life. While clearly propagandistic, the film is often quite poetic visually, not naturalistic as was prescribed by authorities at the time. The film was honored at the 1937 Paris World's Fair. The video version is in Russian with English subtitles.
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsNikolai SimonovNikolay CherkasovAlla TarasovaA historical film about the life and state activities of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in 1721.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsAleksandr ZarkhiStarsNikolay CherkasovMariya DomashyovaBoris LivanovA film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.
- DirectorVladimir LegoshinStarsIgor ButBoris RungeAleksandr MelnikovTwo young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic.
- 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.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsAleksei LyarskyVarvara MassalitinovaMikhail TroyanovskiyA drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsNikolai SimonovAlla TarasovaNikolay CherkasovThe second part of the story is about the life and state activity of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in 1721.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevLeonid TraubergStarsBoris ChirkovValentina KibardinaMikhail ZharovIn the culmination of the Maxim trilogy, the worker hero becomes a political commissar after October 1917 and with some embarrassment is appointed to nationalize a bank ,he has discussions with both Lenin and Stalin.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsAleksei LyarskyIrina ZarubinaVarvara MassalitinovaFor the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores, but while reading could end his depression. After hard working experience, he was determined to Kazan in the passion of being a strongmen.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsNikolai ValbertStepan KayukovNikolai DorokhinThe last installment of Russian director Mark Donskoy's Maxim Gorky trilogy. Having endured a painful youth in Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938) and a torturous sojourn as a serf in My Apprenticeship, future writer Maxim Gorky reaches maturity with an insatiable desire for personal and artistic freedom.
- DirectorRoman KarmenMikhail SlutskyStarsQuentin ReynoldsOn August 24th of 1940 a group of cameramen cross the immense territory of the Soviet Union, before it was attacked by Nazi Germany, and capture multiple aspects of life in this new world.
- DirectorIlya KopalinLeonid VarlamovStarsN. DubravinEdward G. RobinsonJoseph StalinA number of frontline cameramen shot the footage used in this documentary of the Battle of Moscow, between October 1941 and January 1942,in which a people's war against the German invaders, whose atrocities are shown in graphic detail, is begun, with echoes of traditional Russian heroism and an appeal to save the country's religious and cultural monuments.
- DirectorLeonid VarlamovStarsYuriy LevitanBrian DonlevyStalingrad is a 1943 Soviet documentary. The film illustrates the famous battle of the Red Army with the Germans for Stalingrad.
- DirectorYakov AvdeyenkoYuliya SolntsevaAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsLeonid KhmaraOleksiy FyodorovHermann GöringDepicts the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsNatalya UzhviyNina AlisovaElena TyapkinaA bitter anti-Nazi film, "The Rainbow" details the sufferings of a Ukrainian village during 30 days of occupation.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima BirmanDuring the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
- DirectorFridrikh ErmlerStarsMikhail DerzhavinPyotr AndriyevskyYuriy TolubeevReleased after the Russian victory over the Germans in WWII, the film stresses the role of the officer staff during the Battle of Stalingrad.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsYelena KuzminaAnna LisyanskayaVasiliy ZaychikovThe story of one of the Soviet women transported to Germany after the Nazi invasion in World War II for forced labor, this one forced to become a household drudge.
- DirectorYuli RaizmanStarsLeonid KhmaraRudolf BoettgerVasiliy ChuikovOver 40 Army cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and the 1st Ukrainian Fronts contributed footage of this remarkable documentary of the fall of Berlin, including captured German footage.
- DirectorGurgen BalasanyanAleksandr DovzhenkoLevon IsahakyanStarsAleksandr DovzhenkoA documentary dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Soviet Armenia, supervised by the Soviet Ukrainian filmmaker Aleksandr Dovzhenko.
- DirectorMikheil ChiaureliStarsMikheil GelovaniA. MansvetovAleksey GribovIn 1924, veteran Bolshevik Petrov, a resident of Tsaritsyn, carries a letter to Vladimir Lenin, to inform him of the Kulak brigands that roam the land, spreading death and misery. The Kulaks murder him. His widow, Varvara, continues his quest, joining a group that travels to Moscow. When they arrive, they discover that Lenin is dead. In the Kremlin, Vyacheslav Molotov tells Anastas Mikoyan that now, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Bukharin will attempt to subvert the party by attacking Stalin, Lenin's devout disciple. Stalin, mourning his teacher's passing away, carries a eulogy in the funeral, calling for all attendants and all the people of the Soviet Union to vow to maintain his legacy. The people swear. Varvara sees Stalin and hands him over the blood-stained letter entitled "To Lenin". Varvara's son, Sergei, becomes an inventor, developing the first Soviet tractor with Stalin's encouragement. Her other son, Alexander, becomes manager of the Stalingrad Tractor Factory. Stalin leads the people of the USSR in implementing the Five-Year Plans and in industrializing their country, in spite of Bukharin's resistance. American saboteurs burn the Tractor Factory, killing Varvara's daughter, Olga. As the Germans threaten world war, Sergei travels to Paris, to warn of the impending danger. The French and the British reject Soviet warnings. As the Second World War begins, the two sons volunteer for the front. At the end of the war, Varvara and Stalin meet again in the Kremlin. Stalin kisses her hand, in recognition of the Soviet mothers' contribution to victory, telling her that soon, all that Lenin has foreseen would be fulfilled.
- DirectorAleksandr PtushkoStarsVladimir DruzhnikovYekaterina DerevshchikovaTamara MakarovaObsessed with perfecting his craft, young gemcutter Danilo visits the mystical Copper Mountain to uncover the secret behind its infamous attraction - the Stone Flower, a stone carving so captivating that no one can leave after seeing it.
- DirectorGerbert RappaportStarsHugo LaurAino TalviGunnar Kilgas
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsVera MaretskayaDaniil SagalPavel OlenevA young lady goes to Siberia to teach. People there gape at her desktop globe. The Soviet revolution happens. Her husband is Lenin's compatriot. In her lifelong teaching, her students become professor, school teacher and awarded military.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsVladimir IvanovInna MakarovaNonna MordyukovaThe film is set in the city of Krasnodon (Sorokyne) in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Ukrainian SSR (now Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine). Local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance. The teens manage to outsmart the Nazis in their fight. They blow up the Nazi recruitment offices. Their activity lifts the spirits of the surviving citizens. They organize other school-friends in the groups of five to help the citizens in their struggle for survival. Their courage helps many others to survive.
- DirectorAleksandr StolperStarsPavel KadochnikovNikolai OkhlopkovAleksei DikijAlexey Meresyev was a fighter pilot during the war. One day he was shot down by Nazis, and because of his wounds both of his legs had to be cut off up to his knees. Because of his spirit and courage, Alexey was able to overcome his disability. He learned not only to walk on his artificial limps, but even dance and fly the plane again. Based on a real-life story.
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsAleksei DikijMaksim ShtraukhViktor KhokhryakovA large-scale battle between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany from the point of view of Stalin.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsVladimir SolovyovGrigori BelovAleksandra VasilyevaThe heroic life of a Ukrainian agronomist who becomes world famous and who the Bolshevik Revolution allows to cultivate new species of fruit trees as part of a project to transform nature.
- DirectorMikheil ChiaureliStarsMikheil GelovaniBoris AndreyevVladimir SavelevA years-long struggle of the Soviet people against the German war machine is shown from the point of view of Stalin and from the point of view of an ordinary soldier and his beloved girl.
- 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...
- DirectorGrigoriy RoshalStarsAleksandr BorisovNikolay CherkasovVladimir BalashovSaint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsIgor GorbachyovYuriy TolubeevAnastasiya GeorgievskayaKhlestakov is a young flamboyant crook, who is broke. He finds himself in a small Russian town, where local authorities are waiting for an undercover inspector from the capital St. Petersburg. Khlestakov is mistaken for an undercover inspector, and uses the situation for taking bribes from the local governor and flirting with both his wife and daughter. Khlestakov abuses the corruption and hypocrisy of the local authorities until, at the end, the real inspector shows up...
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovStarsBoris SmirnovLev DurasovVladimir SavelevBiographical film about the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka who lived in the 19th century.
- DirectorSergey VasilevStarsIvan PereverzevViktor AvdyushkoGeorgiy YumatovEpic historical drama. The Russo - Turkish War of Liberation of 1878 and the role of the Bulgarian Volunteer Gorps.
- DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsIzolda IzvitskayaOleg StrizhenovNikolay KryuchkovAn unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
- DirectorRezo ChkheidzeStarsSofiko ChiaureliGiorgi ShengelaiaLeila AbashidzeA lyrical story about the people of neighborhood in Tbilisi.
- DirectorSergei YutkevichStarsSergey BondarchukIrina SkobtsevaAndrei PopovThe Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- DirectorArtashes Hay-ArtyanStarsHrachia NersisyanAvet AvetisyanVarduhi VarderesyanThe daughter can't stand the disgrace when learns that his father millionaire had stoled the fortune of his former companion.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsTatyana SamoylovaAleksey BatalovVasiliy MerkurevVeronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
- 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.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsVera DonskayaYuri DedovichIvan TverdokhlebAn adaptation of a story by Mikhailo Kotsyubinsky, a Ukrainian writer executed in the Stalinist purges but rehabilitated in 1955, that anticipates the Ukrainian "poetic cinema" of the '60s in its focus on star-crossed lovers and its celebration of nature. Set in the 1830s, the film follows two lovers on the run - a girl forced into marriage and her boyfriend, a serf who's being sought by the authorities - as they try to make their way to freedom.
- 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.Completed in 1946, released in 1958
- DirectorYuliya SolntsevaStarsBoris LivanovBoris AndreyevMikhail TsaryovInterconnected stories of Soviet citizens trying to build a new future after World War II. Memories of the old, dreams of the young, and the residues of class mingle and clash.
- DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsVladimir IvashovZhanna ProkhorenkoAntonina MaksimovaYoung Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
- 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.
- DirectorAleksey BatalovStarsRolan BykovYuriy TolubeevAleksandra YozhkinaA story about a government clerk who has his precious new overcoat stolen. No-one seems willing to help him retrieve his prized possession, a fact that continues to concern him even when he is beyond the grave.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsGeorgi YepifantsevSergei LukyanovPavel TarasovThomas Gordeiev is the son of a rich grain merchant. As a child and a young man, he lives a protected life, embellished by the privileges of his social class. Affected very early on by the abject misery in which the people were confined, he does nothing at first though. In love with Sophia, the wife of a lawyer, it soon turns out that his mistress is only a creature of light morals. Disappointed, he breaks up with her and, out of spite, indulges in debauchery. But, realizing the inanity of his life, he gradually moves closer to the poor and away from his peers who, in turn, reject him.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsStarsIya SavvinaAleksey BatalovNina AlisovaA love story among the nobility of the Russian Empire: a man and a woman, both married, fall in love.
- DirectorBalys BratkauskasMarijonas GiedrysVytautas ZalakeviciusStarsBronius BabkauskasBalys BratkauskasVytautas BuizysFour different stories about young kids' destinies in different time periods in Lithuania.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsAleksey BatalovInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyTatyana LavrovaNuclear physicists are risking their lives for scientific achievements.
- 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.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsSergio CorrieriSalvador WoodJosé GallardoFour vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyMikhail NazvanovElza RadzinaAfter the death of the King of Denmark - Hamlet's father - his brother Claudius ascends the throne, who takes his widow Gertrude as his wife. Hamlet meets the ghost of his father and learns that he was killed by Claudius.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevArina AleynikovaIlya RutbergA satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsIvan MikolaychukLarisa KadochnikovaTatyana BestayevaA timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsBolot BeyshenalievNatalya ArinbasarovaIdris NogajbayevSoviet 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 masses. But the countrymen are to help him, and even to let their children go and "sleep" at school instead of giving a hand. There is only, Altynai, an orphan, to seem fascinated by the teacher and his knowledge.
- DirectorRezo ChkheidzeStarsSergo ZakariadzeVladimir PrivaltsevAleksandr NazarovAn old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front lines. Reluctant to return home empty-handed, he tries to follow and find him.