Soviet Union Movies

Following an introduction by Bing Crosby, the Cinerama screen widens for scenes of landscapes, cities, peoples, and entertainments of the Soviet Union. Highlights include the historic buildings and churches of…

An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

During the German occupation of Estonia a young mother finds a Red Army soldier hiding in the hay in her barn.

Dedicated to the contradictions of scientific and technical progress, warning against one-sided technical developments that turn a person into an involuntary consumer.

Estonian/Soviet animation short. Jaak makes a robot that can do all the homework. Eventually, Jaak becomes so lazy that he sends the robot to school instead of himself. Then the…

A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is impossible.

A 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…

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his…

A Czar who attempts to trick a creature that demands tribute from him into taking a fisherman’s baby instead of his newborn heir. Complications arise when the daughter of the…

A newly appointed Russian literature teacher develops a strong connection with one of her flagging students.

A tale about Comrade Kominternov, the Red Army Warrior, who flew to Mars and vanquished all the capitalists on the planet. The film is a parody on the famous SF…

The young dentist Chesnokov has a knack for painlessly removing teeth, much to the dismay of other dentists, who fear unemployment and start to challenge Chesnokov.

A 1973 Soviet twelve-part television series, directed by Tatyana Lioznova and based on the novel of the same title by Yulian Semyonov. The series portrays the exploits of Maxim Isaev,…

The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence, but the details are hazy and very secret. After the mysterious demise…

Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his…

A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.

Olya steps through the mirror into the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors where Yalo resides. The kingdom, under the rule of King Yagupop LXXVII (reverse of Popugay, meaning parrot) produces …

A spaceship from Earth is trapped on the unknown planet. Based on book “Tumannost Andromedy” by Ivan Efremov.

At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zeleny go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the…

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Several Russian Pomorsk men who live by the White Sea have brought in their boats for the evening and are relaxing inside a fisherman’s hut. One of them says “there…

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After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from…

Looking for the money for a drink, an alcoholic gets a Newfoundland dog as a present from a stranger at a bird fair. He’ll soon find out that the animal…

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A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family’s country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love… to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro…

One of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century, Sergei Parajanov’s “Color of the Pomegranate,” a biography of the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova (King of Song) reveals the poet’s life…

A famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.

About entertaining adventures of penguin Lolo, about the nature and fauna of Antarctica. The film is about inhabitants of Antarctica penguins, about their existence full of dangers, about adventures of…

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A wise house cat tells a story about how humanity came to be. Long ago, helped by the Singing Magic, Man came to dominion over nature, domesticating wild animals who…

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey,…

Unemployed and homeless Babbs Baberley (Alexander Kalyagin) is being chased by the police who attempt to arrest him for vagrancy. Babbs finds himself in a rich house, where he encounters…

This is called the first Soviet science fiction film because of its “futuristic” sets on Mars, although most of it takes place in Moscow. The movie is set at the…

In Russia’s factory region during Czarist rule, there’s restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents. When a worker hangs himself after being falsely accused…

“Sixth Part of the World” was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines….

In 1918 a simple Mongolian herdsman escapes to the hills after brawling with a western capitalist fur trader who cheats him. In 1920 he helps the partisans fight for the…

100.000.000 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…