Panssarilaiva Potemkin
Venäläisen ekspressionistin Sergej Eisensteinin mestariteos Panssarilaiva Potemkin on vuoden 1925 ensi-illan jälkeen useasti valittu maailman parhaaksi elokuvaksi. Sitä pidetään...
The film is based on the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s poem of the same name, which happens to be one of the most poetic and beautiful Russian fairy tales. In the midst of the wedding party of...
The film is based on the early stories by the outstanding Soviet writer Maxim Gorky. There are several interwoven love lines in this beautiful, poetic drama: of the proud beauty Rada who bewitched the...
Sergey gets to know a girl over the phone, and their tormentingly joyous telephone romance begins. They avoid personal meetings, wary of disappointments and unwanted hurt. Their love gets stronger and...
A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last...
A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The film portrays the life of Russian landed gentry in the 1840s. After a long travel in Europe, nobleman Lavretsky returns...
One of the best Russian films about the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The “old men” in this squadron were no older than twenty, but those “wet behind the ears”, a reinforcement fresh from flying schools...
The film is based on Russian epic tales about the famous hero embodying the best character traits of the Russian people. Ilya Muromets, like Dobrynia Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich, is a favorite character...
Shortly after Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953, Lavrenty Beria, the omnipotent NKVD Minister, granted a broad amnesty. Due to it, going at large were hardened criminals that had been convicted for grave offenсes....
A screen adaptation of the novel by the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The 19th-century Russia. A poor student, Rodion Raskolnikov, commits a crime which is inevitably followed by pangs of conscience:...
Should work with any player: PAL, NTSC, any region... The triumphant success of this film started with its winning the first prize at the Cannes festival in 1958, where an excellent acting by Tatiana Samoilova...
The plot of this eccentric comedy is based on a newspaper item, found by script co-writer Yakov Kostyukovsky, about the arrest on the Italian border of a criminal who had hidden “gold and diamonds” in...
Moscow - Cassiopea. From the depths of space on the ground reached an alarming signal of an unknown civilization. The project offered by young inventor Vitja Sereda, should allow the spaceship to reach...
Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director...
30-е годы. Вождь одобряет проведение медицинского эксперимента по перемене пола: «Родине нужны солдаты — будут солдаты. Родине нужны матери — сделаем матерей». Так колхозница Евдокия Кузнецова становится...
The film is based on a science-fiction novel by Polish writer Stanislav Lem. This is a reflection on the themes of cosmos, Earth, man, human conscience, life, death and responsibility before the future....
A naive girl from a provincial town, dreaming of becoming an actress, goes to Moscow to enroll in a theatre school. She fails at the entrance exams, however she meets new friends and experiences first...
Foreman Uncle Vova and Georgian student Gedevan accidentally found themselves on a strange desert planet, Plyuk, in the faraway galaxy “Kin-Dza-Dza”. The planet’s inhabitants looked like humans and understood...
Guest from the Future
Alice Seleznyova, a girl from the future, finds herself in our time (1984). Following her, the space pirates Krys and Joker Y get here, too, with most nasty pirate’s intentions....
Russia, the Civil War years… A Red Army unit is conducting a reconnaissance operation in the sands of Central Asia. The group of gruffy soldiers includes one woman, Maryutka. She is one of the unit’s best...
The 1920s’ Civil War in Russia. In a small Southern town occupied by the White Guards, a film group from Moscow is shooting a salon drama under the title of “Slave of Love”. Invited to play the leads are...
Based on the play by Alexander Volodin. The set is the 1950s. The tangible world of an old communal apartment is recreated onscreen with an incredible accuracy, every thing capturing the flair of the time....
One of the most popular and favourite films in Russia. The film follows at length the lives of two friends – Alexei Trofimov and Ivan Varrava. In the 1920s they served together at a frontier outpost, fighting...
This eccentric comedy directed by Leonid Gaidai includes 3 novellas united by the main character, cranky Shurik, who often finds himself in the most incredible situations. In “Partner” he is rehabilitating...
A screen adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy. The somber Elsinore Castle that keeps secrets of many a crime is looming over the rocky coastline. Prince Hamlet once again puts the question: “To...
“Non-science fictional, not entirely realistic and not exactly historical film” based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s play “Ivan Vasilievich”. Inventor Timofeev (Demyanenko) has constructed in his regular Moscow...
12 series (6 DVD) The twelve-part television series about a Soviet intelligence agent who infiltrated the Nazi Secret Service has become a cult film. For the first time since Chapayev jokes and literary...
This is a screen adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy. King Lear had three daughters: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. One day he banished and repudiated his youngest and most loved daughter. But the evil...
This cinematic expression of the author’s reflections is one of the best films of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. Its working title was “White, White Day”. Quoted in the film are some of the verses...
This is the sequel to Alexander Rogozhkin‘s comedy saga about the perculiarities of incomrehensible Russian soul. Best friends: general Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich and Lyova Soloveichik have decided to go...
“An absolutely untypical story, which could only occur on the New Year night” – is the subtitle of Eldar Ryazanov’s most popular film. This is a lyrical comedy about four friends going to the sauna in...
The film is based on the works by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. This is a picture of life of the Russian gentry in the late 19th century. Without a grain of sentimentality, the director reveals the moral...
This “Middle-Eastern”, or rather a Central-Asian action film, about the Red Army fighting the counter-revolutionary robber bands has become not only a cult movie, but also one of the favorites for several...
