When a Red Army detachment captures Sultan Mazar, the brains behind the Bazmachi contingent, a decision is made to escort urgently the prisoner to the Bukhara province. The difficult mission is entrusted to a grizzled mountain trapper and conscientious revolutionary called Mirzo. His expertise is essential to traverse the precarious paths and steep mountain ridges along the way, impossible terrain for the inexperienced. Read More »
Don Quixote (Russian: Дон Кихот, translit. Don Kikhot) is a 1957 Soviet drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev. It is based on Evgeny Shvartz’s stage adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’s classic novel of the same name. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. It opened in the United States in 1961, beginning its U.S. run on January 20.
The film was exhibited in the mid-1960s by Australian University film clubs receiving the productions of Sovexportfilm. It was the first film version of Don Quixote to be filmed in both widescreen and color.Read More »
Once upon a time there was the tree – very tall, proud and strong. It was doing neither good nor harm. This tree was kept aloof from everyone and everything. Once the tree encounters the cat. His presence changes everything.Read More »
About Soviet and Japanese volley-ball players who are both rivals and friends. The events cover the period from the 1976 Montreal Olympics to the eve of XXII Olympics in Moscow.Read More »
Late one evening in Moscow in 1937, Defence Counsel Sedov hears a knock at the door. Three women whose agronomist husbands have been sentenced to death for alleged sabotage beg him to take on the seemingly hopeless task of saving them. Sedov embarks upon a succession of encounters with increasingly powerful officials, gradually persuading them to look at the case anew. But the highest authorities are not so easily outmaneuvered, and Sedov becomes canonized as a Stalinist zealot, with the film building inexorably to its chilling triple climax.Read More »
Soviet documentary film about Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, filmed for the 60th anniversary of his birth.
The film uses materials from the State Film Fund. link
The film includes shots: fragments of S. Eisenstein’s films – “Strike”, “Battleship Potemkin”, “October”, “Old and New”, “Alexander Nevsky”, “Ivan”, “Long Live Mexico!”, “Dream” ; interview with film director G.V. Alexandrova about working with S.M. Eisenstein in Mexico; portraits: S.M. Eisenstein, E. Tisse, assistants S.M. Eisenstein: Levshina, Antonova, Gomorova, Straukh, Aleksandrov; film director S. Eisenstein among the students of VGIK, among his friends, on the set of M. Romm’s film “Dream”, at work at home; the interior of S. Eisenstein’s apartment; composer S. Prokofiev with S. Eisenstein on the set of the film “Ivan the Terrible”; drawings by S. Eisenstein.
1961 – Prize at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in ScotlandRead More »
Synopsis:
In one of the realms, there was time for the prince to get married, but the bride would have to be a real princess. A sign was put up on the gates: “ A Princess Wanted”. But in response to it there appeared only a small girl, wet to the bones after the rain and bearing no resemblance to nobility. So the prince was obliged to venture off to other lands in search of a suitable match. Henceforth the prince’s adventures unfold. In one kingdom, he met a fat king, in another – a hospitable king. He also visited the kingdom of arts. He saw enough princesses, beautiful and clever. And yet, the real princess, the only one he longed for, proved to be the girl who had knocked at their door during a rainstorm…Read More »
The film is about the fate of the famous Soviet aviator Chkalov, who in mid 30’es made with his crew the first nonstop flight from Moscow to the Far East, covering over 9000 kilometers and later made the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Moscow to the USA across the North Pole.Read More »
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.Read More »