Set in turn of the century Russia, a passionate and epic love story about lost love, betrayal and the human spirit.
1905, Jane Callaghan a once beautiful American writes to her ...
Why was Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” the first play to be staged in Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Why have the representatives of different countries, cultures and civilizations been addressing ...
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Sergey Ejzenshtejn, Grigorij Aleksandrov, Eduard Tisse, Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasiliy Nikandrov
"To create a heroic style, Eisenstein had to go through the montage of eccentric attractions. A parody streak, strong in Eisenstein's nature, sounds in his first cinematic work - The ...
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Aleksandr Zarhi, Lev Tolstoy, Leonid Kalashnikov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Yuriy Yakovlev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya
The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.
“All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own ...
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Vladimir Venediktov, L. Vejcman, S. Trushkina, L. Volkova, Natalya Zakharova, Andrej Gusak
Six films representing the masterpieces of Hermitage. This museum boasts an enormous collection of paintings and sculptures which in terms of variety and breadth proves to be one of the ...
This screen adaptation of the Maurice Maeterlinck’s tale was the first Soviet-American co-production.
The Blue Bird is an embodiment of happiness, both immediate and distant, that every person is sure ...
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Rezo Chheidze, Lev Suhov, Viktor Uralskij, Aleksej Nazarov, Sergo Zakariadze, Kosyh Ivan, Petr Lyubeshkin
The unnaturalness of war for humans, who are toilers and creators, is demonstrated through the life story of an old peasant wine-grower from Georgia. Georgy Makharashvili is on his way ...
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Balet Ally Duhovoy TODES , Alla Duhova, Garnizov Aleksey, Denis Garnizov, Igor Krutoy, German Raevskiy
The film was made to mark the 15 years of professional performing activity of the Todes Ballet. The program of the gala concert includes, along with the performance of the ...
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Vladimir Menshov, Sergey Nikitin, Valentin Chernyh, Igor Slabnevich, Viktor Uralskij, Georgiy Yumatov, Innokentij Smoktunovskij
An Oscar winner for “best foreign film”. This is a melodrama about the life stories of the three girls. Three friends, Antonina, Liudmila and Yekaterina, come to Moscow in search ...
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Pavel Kadochnikov, Vladislav Kladnickiy, Boris Scherbakov, Sergey Filippov, Evgeniy Zharikov, Boris Himichev, Irina Gubanova
The film is based on the play of the same name by Russian writer A.N. Ostrovsky.
The Snow Maiden is the daughter of Father Frost and the beautiful Spring. Her icy ...
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David Cherkasskij, Georgiy Firtich, Efim Chepoveckiy, Korney Chukovskiy, Krivoshey B, Muhin A, M Mironova
Based on the books by Kornei Chukovsky.If there are hospitals for people, then why there should not be hospitals for beasts? And in every hospital there must be a doctor. ...
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Gleb Panfilov, Vadim Bibergan, Leonid Kalashnikov, Vadim Medvedev, Inna Churikova, Albert Filozov, Olga Mashnaya
A screen adaptation of the second version of A.M. Gorky’s play “Vassa Zheleznova”.
In this family children were taught from the early years to put accent on the word “my”: my ...
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Nikita Mihalkov, Eduard Artemev, Viktor Merezhko, Andrej Petrov, Oleg Menshikov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Vsevolod Larionov
One of the most popular movies tells, in an ironic manner, about complicated relationships between close people. Among the film’s achievements is not only splendid acting, but also the fact ...
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Nikita Mihalkov, Kristof Glyuk, Eduard Artemev, Ramiz Fataliev, Sofya Prokofeva, Pavel Lebeshev, Mihail Ulyanov
Based upon S. Prokofyeva’s play “A Conversation Without Witness”. Irina Kupchenko (“Lonely Woman Seeks Lifetime Companion”) and Mikhail Ulyanov (“The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment”) in a sad story directed ...
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Valerij Rubinchik, Evgeniy Glebov, Tatyana Loginova, Albert Filozov, Boris Plotnikov, Boris Hmelnickiy, Valentina Shendrikova
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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Sergey Ejzenshtejn, Grigorij Aleksandrov, Dmitri Shostakovich, Boris Livanov, Eduard Tisse, Nikolay Popov, Vasiliy Nikandrov
A film epic about the 1917 Revolution in Petrograd. The Revolution’s headquarters at the Smolny Palace, where the plan for seizing power in Russia was masterminded; the historic salvo from ...
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Sergej Solovev, Bela Bartok, Gustav Maler, Ludwig Beethoven, Dmitri Shostakovich, Isaak Shvarts, Wolfgang Mozart
Sergey Solovyov’s retro drama about learning kindness, resisting evil and cherishing that indestructible dream of happiness, based upon the novella by B. Ryakhovsky.
The year of 1946. The war remained in ...
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Aleksandr Ptushko, Gavriil Popov, Aleksandr Pushkin, Valentin Zaharov, Igor Geleyn, Oleg Vidov, Larisa Golubkina
Due to the genius of the great Russian poet Pushkin, this tale has become known to children in many countries of the world. It is about the amazing adventures of ...
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Mark Donskoy, Lev Shvarc, Nikolay Gorlov, Petr Ermolov, Mihail Troyanovskiy, Aleksandr Timontaev, Nikolay Plotnikov
The second part of the celebrated film trilogy by Mark Donskoy based upon Maxim Gorky’s autobiographical works (Part One -“Childhood of Maxim Gorky”, Part Three - “My Universities”).
Alyosha ...
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Gennadiy Kazanskiy, Vladimir Chebotarev, Andrej Petrov, Akiba Golburt, Aleksandr Ksenofontov, Aleksey Kapler, Aleksandr Belyaev
This romantic melodrama, based on the science-fiction novel of the same name by Alexander Belyaev, became a box-office leader in the USSR in 1961.
There is a panic in a ...
