Movies: Soviet union

A few former pupils of primary school teacher Aishi-Aly meet again for a party on the top of the sacred mountain that dominates their village. But what was supposed to be a joyful party turns into a nightmare......

A young woman in Stalin's Russia faces a life-or-death choice after carrying out a daring act of protest....

Togrul loves his wife Leyla very much and is terribly jealous at the same time. His jealousy destroys the family, and even Togrul's mother, knowing her son's unfair treatment, decides to leave home with her daughter-in-law......

The story of Marshal Vasily Konstantinovich, a dedicated Red Army commander who was killed in Stalin's "purges." The film attempts to study the fate of the country through his biography, and unlock the riddle of the show trials of the thirties....

Tells the story of the tragic events in Ukraine in 1932-33, the genocidal Great Famine or the Holodomor, and one Welshman's attempts to tell the world what was happening....

The film is about the life and work of Grigory Ordzhonikidze Konstantinoviche, an important personality in both the Communist Party and the Soviet state. The film includes speeches by his bereaved friends who attended his funeral. In 1937, after the...

With breathless pace, Hélène Chatelain ("the woman" in "La Jetée") reconstructs the life of Nestor Makhno from his writings, Soviet propaganda films, reactions of workers today and the memory he has left in the hearts & minds of his people in Gouliaï...

Poetic film about the struggle of man's will and muscles against nature, about the rock-climbers who prevent landslides and eliminate their consequences....

The sad story of a drunken athlete....

Ex-friends go gap on a risky trip across the wasteland of post Soviet Union's east for the lost hope of finding a glorious future, but they can find only mortal adventures for their airminded heads....

Documentary footage of late 1950s Russia covers such cities and towns as Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, the Black Sea, Kharkov, Sochi, Sukumi, Gori, Bukhara, Samarkand, Frunzo and Siberia....

Early Soviet prison camp depiction set to the years of Revolution....

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: The opening of an electric generating station / Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries....

Mykyta the tanner is a 1965 animation short film about a hero from an East Slavic folk legend - Mykyta Kozhumyaka ....

A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), the groundbreaking Soviet poet and dissident....

Filmmakers Laura Mulvey and Mark Lewis use rare archival footage and interviews with artists, art historians, and museum directors to examine the fate of Soviet-era monuments during successive political regimes, from the Russian Revolution through th...

The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustrates the theatre of social life in Soviet Poland where one says different things on the stage and another behind the scenes....

A young peasant woman decides to become a tractor driver....

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Anhology of surprises and a couple of curiosities made by the brothers Adrián and Ramiro García Bogliano in Cuba, Argentina and Spain....