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- StarsSergey VorobyovNatalya OrlovaBoris SokolovThe Film depicts last month of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev as the head of USSR and also how he became the man he was.
- DirectorIgor GostevStarsRolan BykovAleksandr BelyavskiyLev DurovIn the center of the plot is the removal of Nikita Khrushchev in 1964, which a state security officer is trying to prevent.
- DirectorRoger DonaldsonStarsKevin CostnerBruce GreenwoodShawn DriscollIn October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- DirectorArmando IannucciStarsSteve BuscemiSimon Russell BealeJeffrey TamborMoscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
- DirectorIvan PasserStarsRobert DuvallJulia OrmondMaximilian SchellThe life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsWilliam HurtLee MarvinBrian DennehyA Moscow police officer investigates a vicious triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level international political conspiracy.
- DirectorFrancis LawrenceStarsJennifer LawrenceJoel EdgertonMatthias SchoenaertsBallerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School,' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
- DirectorPavel ParkhomenkoStarsYaroslav ZhalninMikhail FilippovVladimir SteklovOn April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin blasted off in a Vostok rocket and he orbited Earth for 106 minutes. He was the cosmonaut who was selected from over three thousand fighter pilots throughout the Soviet Union.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsJason RobardsGlenda JacksonNicol WilliamsonBiography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights movement to his receiving the Nobel Peace prize. Sakharov's actions first caused him to lose a senior party position, then half his salary, and finally completely being dismissed from his job and exiled to Gorky, an industrial city. When the Nobel prize is awarded, he is denied the trip to receive it. His wife was able to go there. Sakharov launched a lengthy hunger strike to protest his country's treatment of its people.
- DirectorInara KolmaneStarsYelena BonnerAndrei SakharovThrough a vast coverage of exclusive archive materials and interviews and personally narrated by his wife, Yelena Bonner, the story of the life of Andrei Sakharov, the most famous Soviet dissident, Nobel Peace Prize winner and the creator of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, is revealed
- StarsEvgeniya TurkovaDenis NikolinMillions suffered at the hands of the KGB. Mass executions, secret wars and coup d'états. But today, the security network is arguably stronger than ever.
- DirectorAnat Zalmanson-KuznetsovStarsAnatoly AltmanRuth Bar-OnPhilipp BobkovLeningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plots to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the gulag and two were sentenced to death; they never got on a plane. 45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents, leaders of the group, "heroes" in the West but "terrorists" in Russia, even today.
- DirectorMauro BologniniStarsLiv UllmannDaniel OlbrychskiAurore ClémentA Jewish scientist in Russia becomes frustrated with the antisemitism in her country and decides to leave with her friend and sister. When they go to receive emigration permits, her sister and friend pass but she is declined.
- DirectorRyszard BugajskiStarsMarek ProboszMarek KalitaAndrzej NiemirskiThe main hero is a historical personage Witold Pilecki, a cavalry Captain, who voluntarily entered German Concentration Camp Auschwitz, organized resistance there and a channel of communication to pass information, as well as escaped from the camp, went abroad to convey the information about concentration camp to the alliance forces and came back to Polish People's Republic where he was imprisoned and appallingly tortured. The teleplay is focused on the excessive brutality of enquiries against him and on the trial during which he was falsely accused as well as on his indomitableness and perseverance.
- DirectorRyszard BugajskiStarsOlgierd LukaszewiczAlicja JachiewiczMagdalena EmilianowiczThe tumultuous life of General August Emil Fieldorf aka "Nil", who commanded the underground Home Army against the Nazis and was killed after WW2 by communists.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsYuliya VysotskayaVladislav KomarovAndrey GusevWhen the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
- StarsPeter DinklageBruce Bueno de MesquitaWaller NewellRuling with an iron fist requires an aspiring dictator to know the playbook for absolute power, as history's despots prove in this sardonic docuseries.
- DirectorWladyslaw PasikowskiStarsMarcin DorocinskiMaja OstaszewskaPatrick WilsonThe most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law.
- DirectorChristian CarionStarsGuillaume CanetEmir KusturicaAlexandra Maria LaraThe French intelligence service alerts the U.S. about a Soviet spy operation during the height of the Cold War, which sets off an unfortunate chain of events.
- StarsMichael DouglasChristoph WaltzThe dramatic account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland, the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War.
- DirectorTony PalmerStarsBen KingsleySherry BainesMagdalen AsquithThe story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
- DirectorTony PalmerStarsNadia BoulangerJean CocteauRobert CraftThis autobiographical film about the most important and influential composer of the 20th century includes documents, photographs and film never seen publicly before.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsColin BlakelyDavid SuchetCarroll BakerAbout Stalin's inner circle who he starts seeing as untrustworthy.
- DirectorVladimir YankovskiyStarsNikolay ShestakElena PobegaevaVeronika PlyashkevichA story about the dramatic fate of the national poet of Belarus Yanka Kupala. The movie reveals the main milestones of the poet's life and career, coinciding with the most tragic events of the 20th century.
- StarsIan HolmSvetlana AlliluyevaStephen CohenThe story of Stalin's life and terrible career, told mainly in interviews with survivors of his terror.
- DirectorAleksandr KottThis is the story of a man who changed the world forever and paid for it with all that he had.
- DirectorTim ToidzeStarsGeoffrey BatemanTim ToidzeJ. Edgar HooverThe story of the unconditional, no-holds-barred tour of America by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, leader of World Communism and America's arch nemesis, during 13 sun-filled days in the fall of 1959.
- StarsSergey ChonishviliIn the autumn of 1964, as a result of a government coup, Nikita Khrushchev, from the almighty master of the largest country in the world, suddenly turned into a pensioner forgotten by everyone. With shame and curses, he was expelled from the Kremlin. At the direction of the new leadership, headed by Leonid Brezhnev, the name of Khrushchev was deleted from history. But two years after the resignation, the former secretary general decided on a daring and risky step - he began to dictate his memories and thoughts on the tape recorder. What was he counting on? Who better than Khrushchev to know that those who replaced him would never allow the thoughts of the former leader of a great power to be heard in the country and in the world. Perhaps he hoped for a change - Perhaps, like in many other ways, he also wanted to be the first here - Khrushchev could leave written memories, but he understood that their reliability would always be in doubt. And he chose another option. These tapes with his voice were miraculously preserved. And the time has come when they can be heard - What Khrushchev said almost half a century ago, and even what he was silent about, is extremely important both for history and for today. In his memoirs - paradoxical logic and hidden springs of development of one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century.
- DirectorRichard DemboStarsMichel PiccoliAlexandre ArbattLiv UllmannDuring the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
- DirectorSvetoslav OvtcharovThrough chronicles and documents, many of which have never been seen, this film shows how the Soviet occupation of Bulgaria from 1944 to 1947 caused the greatest political, financial and moral catastrophe in modern Bulgarian history.
- DirectorGeorge CathroStarsStephen SmithBoris PasternakAnna Sergeeva-KlyatisDr Zhivago is one of the best-known love stories of the 20th century, but the setting of the book also made it famous. It is a tale of passion and fear, set against a backdrop of revolution and violence. The film is what most people remember, but the story of the writing of the book has more twists, intrigue and bravery than many a Hollywood blockbuster. In this documentary, Stephen Smith traces the revolutionary beginnings of this bestseller, to it becoming a pawn of the CIA at the height of the Cold War. The writer of the novel, Boris Pasternak, in the words of his family, willingly committed acts of literary suicide in being true to the Russia he loved, but being honest about the Soviet regime he hated and despised. Under Stalin, writers and artists just disappeared if they didn't support the party line. Many were murdered.
- DirectorRoger YoungStarsDavid KeithMalcolm McDowellDavid SuchetMickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a Gulag, a barbaric prison camp in the wilds of Siberia. Unable to prove his innocence, Mickey must either put up with the inhuman conditions or engineer an escape.
- DirectorRezo GigineishviliStarsIrakli KvirikadzeTinatin DalakishviliAvtandil MakharadzeThe movie describes real events that took place in 1983, when seven young Georgians, all from intellectual elite families, attempted to flee the Soviet Union by hijacking an airliner. The crisis ended with a storming of the airliner by Soviet special forces that resulted in eight dead. The surviving hijackers were subsequently convicted and executed.
- DirectorPeter AnthonyStarsStanislav PetrovKevin CostnerSergey ShnyryovRetired Soviet Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, who saved the world from WW3, talks about his life as retiree and shares his opinions on the Cold War with actor Kevin Costner in this melancholic mixture of documentary and reenacted footage.
- DirectorElliott HaimoffProfiling the real first man in space, who could not be presented to the world by the former Soviet Union as the returning, conquering hero, due to the fact that he crash landed and was seriously injured, resulting in the story being covered up for years.
- DirectorCarmen CastilloStarsRégis DebrayVlady Kilbaltchitch
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsAleksandr Aleksandrovitch FedotovIvan Andreevitch KalinnikowNikolai KrylenkoIn 1930 in Moscow, USSR. the Soviet government puts a group of top rank economists and engineers on trial, accusing them of plotting a coup d'état. The charges are fabricated and the punishment, if convicted, is death.
- DirectorYakov PoselskyStarsAleksandr Aleksandrovitch FedotovIvan Andreevitch KalinnikowNikolai KrylenkoIn 1930, during what became known as the Industrial Party Trial, some members of the Soviet technical elite were tried for plotting to form a counter-revolutionary party. This documentary depicts that trial, in which a dozen men are prosecuted for crimes against the Russian Revolution. They promptly confess and are given the chance to address the court with an explanation. Full of remorse, they plead for the opportunity to pay off their debt to society by working. Then they wait for their sentence. What was presented in 1930 as a documentary we now know is a registration of a show trial. Said to have been fabricated by Stalin himself, its aim was to serve as a cautionary tale for anyone who had ever thought of standing up to the Soviet regime. The film is now a unique document, capturing the spirit of the times. Produced by the Central Studio for Documentary Film, which was the largest Soviet newsreel and documentary studio, this film was one of the first to feature sound recorded on location.
- StarsWalter CronkiteRobert CornthwaitePeter MamakosAndrei Vishinsky's brilliant prosecution of 16 conspirators catapults him to a powerful position under Stalin.
- DirectorAndrew JonesStarsDavid LenikLee BaneJohn R. WalkerIn 1951 USSR, infamous killer doll Robert battles Stalin's henchmen on board a plane.
- DirectorAliona van der HorstStarsSana ValiulinaTurn Your Body to the Sun tells the incredible story of a Soviet prisoner of war. Sixty years later his daughter Sana is tracing the path of her silent father.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsNikita MikhalkovNadezhda MikhalkovaAnna MikhalkovaA bitter story from World War II, which depicts that for the victims of Stalin's repression peaceful life was sometimes even worse than burdens of battlefields against the Germans.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsNikita MikhalkovIngeborga DapkunaiteOleg MenshikovIn the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsNikita MikhalkovOleg MenshikovNadezhda MikhalkovaA look at the horrors of the Eastern Front of World War II from the points of view of repressed soldier of penal battalion and his young daughter, who stayed behind enemy lines.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsYuriy TsuriloNina RuslanovaJüri Järvet Jr.Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsAndrei BoltnevNina RuslanovaAndrey MironovRussian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
- DirectorPatrick Cabouat
- DirectorMarina BabakStarsMikhail UlyanovGeorgi ZhukovBiopic film about Marshall Georgi Zhukov, the legendary hero of the First World War, then the authoritative commander of the Red Army during World War II, then the Soviet Defence Minister under Nikita Khrushchev. He is portrayed by actor-narrator Mikhail Ulyanov, who has a striking facial resemblance with Zhukov.
- DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsVladimir BukovskyViktor FainbergMax GammonA documentary on Vladimir Bukovsky, a Soviet dissident who spent twelve years in psychiatric units and prisons.
- DirectorAleksander FordStarsGunther MalzacherElzbieta CzyzewskaPeter SteenBased on Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel, this is the story of life as a political prisoner behind the walls of a Stalinist labor camp.
- DirectorVasiliy ChiginskiyStarsAleksandr FokinYuliya KhlyninaAleksey GuskovAn ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.
- DirectorGulya MirzoevaStarsHafizullah AminYuri AndropovRuslan Aushev'Afghanistan 1979: the war that changed the world', is a French documentary about the Sovjet invasion in Afghanistan in 1979. It was one of the most crucial events of the 20th century, and changed the world forever. This documentary gives a good insight in the Afghan-Russian war ; the alliance between the Russian and Afghan communist governments ; Islamic resistance ; the support of America for the resistance and its consequences on the war.
- DirectorJaak KilmiStarsKiur AarmaJaak KilmiAlo KõrveA story about growing up in the Soviet Union. The film tells the story of a strange kind of information war, where a totalitarian regime stands face to face with the heroes of popular culture. And loses. It was a time when it was possible for erotic film star Emmanuelle to bring down the Red Army and MacGyver to outdo an entire school administration. It is a film about our generation, who were unknowingly brought to the front line of the Cold War. Western popular culture had an incomparable role shaping Soviet children's world views in those days. Finnish television was a window to a world of dreams that the authorities could not block in any way. Though Finnish channels were banned, many households found some way to access the forbidden fruit.
- DirectorGabe PolskyStarsViacheslav FetisovVladislav TretiakScotty BowmanThe story of the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.
- DirectorVladimir MenshovStarsVera AlentovaAnatoliy LobotskiyAleksandr Feklistov1983 Television editor Sonya and French translator Andre met in Moscow and fell in love. Sonya has a teenage son and a husband, a successful writer. Andre also has family in Paris. And suddenly everything disappeared for them except the sudden surge of passion. For several days of their lives they were absolutely happy, but the gods did not remain indifferent.
- DirectorSemyon PinkhasovTikhon Khrennikov, the one and only head of the Composer Union of the USSR, was forced to accept this position by the orders of Stalin in 1948. He continued until 1991 when the USSR collapsed. Khrennikov protected Soviet musicians from prison and death, but made sure that music was written in accordance with Communist ideology.
- DirectorStanislav GovorukhinStarsStanislav GovorukhinAleksandr NevzorovOlya DvoretskayaDocumentary film about a crisis in Soviet society and causes, which led to this.
- DirectorSemyon PinkhasovGregory Perkel is a Russian-born American artist. Before immigrating to the United States with his family in 1977, he lived in the USSR for 37 years. This film is the story of an artist with experiences from living in two countries - two very different worlds. Gregory Perkel's reflections on life, art and society in general, along with insights from others about him are the essence of this documentary.
- DirectorSemyon PinkhasovNikita LiamzineBorn in the Soviet Union, Leonid Kogan began to play violin at the age of 6. When he was 9 years old, his violin teacher said to the boy's parents that their son was too good for him. The same year Leonid was sent to Moscow to study violin at the music school for gifted children. Kogan's talent blossomed so much that in 1951 the Soviet government sent him to compete at the prestigious violin contest in Brussels. Over there he took the first prize and from that moment on Kogan's career took off. For 30 years he was recognized among the best in the world. But suddenly his fame came to an abrupt halt. What happened? He asked the Soviet government to permit him to buy a new violin.
- DirectorArkadiy KoganFrom Slavery to Freedom portrays the story of Soviet "Refuseniks" through the prism of Natan Sharansky's biography. In 1977, Sharansky, a famous human rights activist, was arrested on charges of spying for the USA, treason and anti-Soviet agitation. The film takes you back to a Soviet era, where there was an overwhelming sense of fear and insecurity in the face of the system. No single person symbolizes the era more than Natan Sharansky, who defied the entire Soviet system in his fight for freedom and national identification. After spending years in prison he ultimately won the struggle, paving the way for all of the Soviet Jewry.
- StarsMorley SaferAnatoly SharanskyWalter J. Turnbull"The Last Gulag" looks at footage from a French documentary on what it is like inside Perm 35 the last camp holding political prisoners in the Soviet Union featuring commentary by Natan Sharansky who was held prisoner there. "Come to Harlem" looks at Walter Turnbull's famous Boys Choir of Harlem.
- DirectorLaura BialisRefusenik chronicles the thirty-year international movement to free Soviet Jews. The first retrospective film about the movement, it has been called a "seminal" work on the subject. Told through the eyes of activists on both sides of the Iron Curtain - many whom survived punishment in Soviet Gulag labor camps - the film is a tapestry of first person accounts of heroism, sacrifice, and ultimately, liberation.
- StarsIgor PetrenkoVitaliya KornienkoMariya AndreevaThe action takes place from April to December 1986. The Ukrainian department of the KGB of the USSR becomes aware of the interest shown by foreign intelligence services in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. To establish the whereabouts of an experienced CIA officer, Albert Lenz, who is suspected of espionage, on the territory of Pripyat, Lieutenant Colonel of military counterintelligence Andrey Nikolaev arrives in the city.
- DirectorAleksey PimanovEkaterina PobedinskayaStarsAleksandr AlyoshkinPolina BakharevskayaArtyom BasheninTells about the events of November 1945 when the first Post War championship of the USSR winners, Dynamo-Moscow, went on the historic tour of Britain.
- DirectorKlim ShipenkoStarsAlexander PetrovKristina AsmusVladimir VdovichenkovThe famous dancer Isadora Duncan arrives at the border of the USSR from Germany, who was preparing Yesenin's escape from the country of the Soviets. He just needs to get on the train and get to Riga. The poet flees from Moscow to snow-covered Leningrad, where he finds himself in a crazy whirlwind of events. He rushes towards his beloved despite any obstacles that constantly arise in his path.
- StarsViktoriya AgalakovaNikita EfremovIvan DobronravovThe Elista Children's Hospital faces the USSR's first major HIV outbreak in the 1980s, with over 70 children and adults infected. Doctors, patients, and families strive to uphold dignity amidst an incurable disease.
- StarsLyubov AksyonovaRoman GoncharenkoAleksandr BolshakovUSSR, Spring 1921. Lenin's post-revolutionary New Economic Policy brings Petrograd criminal gangs along with economic gain. NEPman Rodi decides to stand against their kingpin, Uncle Kolya.
- DirectorKlim ShipenkoStarsVladimir VdovichenkovPavel DerevyankoAleksandr SamoylenkoUSSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.
- DirectorRafael GilStarsRafael RivellesFrancisco RabalLyla RoccoDiego is taken as a child to Russia to avoid the Spanish Civil War. He will be instructed to spread communism becoming a political agitator. His next mission is returning to Spain and concerns his own father. His inner conflicts arise.
- DirectorHussein ErkenovStarsVladimir ZamanskiyArmen DzhigarkhanyanOleg VasilkovThis Soviet movie follows five Red Army recruits at a training camp in Central Russia. It has no narrative structure and rather than telling a story uses vignettes with minimal dialogue to expose the conditions in which Soviet army recruits lived.
- DirectorHussein ErkenovStarsShamkhan MitraevKheda AkhmadovaTimur BazinskiyAs the mass deportations of the Chechen and Ingush peoples begin in 1944, young Daud and Seda escape to the mountains. When they get back to their native village, however, they witness a horrifying war crime.
- DirectorAlexey ChupovNatasha MerkulovaStarsYura BorisovTimofey TribuntsevAleksandr YatsenkoFast-paced story of pre-death repentance marathon for the captain of the National Security Service (NKVD) Fyodor Volkonogov set against the backdrop of 1938 political persecutions in the USSR.
- DirectorJon S. BairdStarsTaron EgertonMara HufMiles BarrowVideo game designer Henk Rogers seeks to secure global rights for Tetris (1984), leading to tense negotiations in the Soviet Union, involving creators, government, and corporate intrigues.
- DirectorTakahisa ZezeStarsKazunari NinomiyaKeiko KitagawaTôri MatsuzakaHatao Yamamoto was a Japanese prisoner of war detained in a post second World War Siberian gulag. He believed that he would be able to reunite with his wife and children in Japan and fought to keep hope alive for his fellow POWs.
- StarsMary SarotteGarrett GraffRobert GatesThe series chronicles the creation of the atomic bomb and the spread of nuclear arms over the following decades. It continues past the dissolution of the Soviet Union to Vladimir Putin's ascent and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.