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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 »

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It is the last film of the Solovyov trilogy and possibly the last “underground” soviet film. A great scientist returned from US, where he was given a PC (a very rare and expensive thing for Russia of that time) and some other awards for his outstanding research. The KGB and “Bratva” did the best to meet him at his motherland and get a piece of his prize. Besides, it is the film of the last years of “perestroika” which was, in itself, the mass hallucination. So that is the way Solovyov made his film.Read More »

Film shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian village community, where people are split between the soviet supporters and the “brothers in the woods” – anti-Soviet guerrillas – who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets after the end of the Second World War. The film story is about the revenge of the sons of a village chairman, who is killed by guerrillas. The choice to make the film following some Western genre conventions allowed Žalakevičus approach the soviet version of recent Lithuanian history in a more open and humanistic way. Nobody wanted to die – neither the father who was killed, nor the Brothers from the forest; and nobody wanted to kill, either.Read More »

When the King of Denmark suddenly dies. his son, Crown Prince Hamlet, returns home to find that his Uncle Claudius has usurped the throne and married his sister-in-law, Hamlet’s recently-widowed mother. One night Hamlet is visited by his father’s ghost, who commands him to avenge his murder at Claudius’ hands.Read More »