Soviet Union Movies

Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention…

A soldier of the Red Army named Sukhov has been fighting in the Russian Civil War in Russian Asia for many years. Just as he is about to return home…

Experience the Berlin Philharmonics and outstanding conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Kurt Sanderling. This exciting live recordings of the most…

Semi-autobiographical story by Oskar Luts about friendship, love and life in a small Estonian country boarding school in the late 1800s. Followed by Suvi (1976) and Sügis (1990).

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly…

Based on Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s fairy tale poem of the same name. In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, Ludmila is kidnapped by an…

The defeat of the “White Army” in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called “White Russians”. Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and…

A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed “Docent” who stole the priceless headpiece of Alexander the Great during an archaeological expedition. But after …

Directed by Gottfried Kolditz, this action-packed Eurowestern is based loosely on the legend of heroic Apache warrior Ulzana.

Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far…

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Set during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia

In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova …

A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in “12 Chairs,” now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.

Kind and instructive tale of four evil wizards who decided to regain youth. But for this it was necessary to find people aimlessly waste their time. Luck smiled on them!…

In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent and of noble lineage, took it upon themselves to stir revolution against the autocratic and…

Stunning WWII flying sequences as the Soviet Air Force battles the Luftwaffe. Veteran Russian pilots teach their new recruits about life, death & love. When the older men fly into…

Several children go to a lifelong space mission to Cassiopeia because they don’t want to go to school.

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Red army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating soviet troops…

A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asian hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns as the head of a…

This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief…

Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She’s in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks…

The story of a young man experiencing an existential journey. It is not about the other characters per se, but rather, what these characters bring to Mitya’s experience. Mitya’s experience…

A white dog called Bim is looking for its owner. It encounters all kinds of people and situations.

The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.

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 of…

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Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general’s widow, Anna Petrovna. Sofia, the new wife of Anna’s step-son, recognizes Misha, the brother-in-law…

Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.

Tamara and Sasha were separated during the war. Now (1957) Sasha is visiting Moscow for five days and by chance recognizes the house where Tamara used to live. She is…

The movie is about “finite nonlinears,” robots that closely resemble human beings but are even more perfect than humans. They are intended to eventually replace human beings in space …

A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki,…

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You can’t make a heart love somebody. This gospel is well known to the young Olenka. Born in a poor family, she has to marry a rich man to escape…

Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly an avalanche cuts them out from…

This is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions. Different careers. And big late love.

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his…

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin (Igor Kostolevsky), a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin,…

Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the indecisive Nicholas, and the religious Czarina worships the Siberian as God. He manipulates the Czar in his…

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