Officially produced to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Russian Revolution, October quickly became another of Sergei Eisenstein's experiments in film form. As in his masterpiece, Battleship... more
This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora... more
Combining autobiographical accounts of life during World War II, political allegory, dream sequences, and newsreel footage, maverick Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky creates a haunting cinematic... more
Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko. Nikolay Sergeev, Irina Tarkovskaya, Nikolay Burlyaev. The life of the 15th-century Russian monk and icon painter unfolds here. Rublev clings to his... more
Kira Ivanova-Golovko, Sergei Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Savelyeva. Russia and her people during the Napoleonic wars are eternally etched in Tolstoy's brilliant novel War and Peace and many times over on... more
Nikolay Burlyaey, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov. At the age of 12, Ivan had lost his family and his home to the destructive Nazi Army who then sent him off to a prison camp. However, Ivan never... more
This stirring Soviet drama is set during World War II and focuses on Sotnikov (Boris Plotnikov) and Rybak (Vladimir Gostyukhin), partisan soldiers captured by the Germans in Belarus while searching... more
This landmark film by the virtuosic Mikhail Kalatozov was heralded as a revelation in the post-Stalin Soviet Union and the international cinema community alike. It tells the story of Veronica and... more
Blown off by her professor/lover, Finnish grad student Laura (Seidi Haarla) settled in for the days-long train trek from Moscow to Murmansk in order to study the famous rock carvings. She found... more
Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (THE SUN) broke boundaries with his dreamlike vision of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, RUSSIAN ARK. It's the first feature-length narrative film shot in a single... more
Vladimar Ivashov, Shauna Prokhorenko. After he performs an incredible feat of bravery, a Russian soldier on leave to visit his mother helps locals on his way home and falls in love with a country... more
Tatiana Samoilova, Vasili Lanovoy, Nikolai Gritsenko. Tolstoy's brilliant novel about a young aristocrat in a loveless marriage to a man 20 years her senior. She falls in love with the dashing Count... more
Levan Tediashvili, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Kakhi Kavsadze, Giorgi Tabidze. After traveling to New York to see his son and finding him deep in debt to a local mob boss, a retired wrestler from the... more
In 1965, USSR cosmonauts Alexei Leonov (Evgeniy Mironov) and Pavel Belyayev (Konstantin Khabenskiy) boarded the Voskhod 2, with the mission of having Leonov become the first man to walk in space.... more
Sent to repair a burst pipe at a run-down housing community, plumber’s assistant and college student Dima notices a crack in a wall that indicates major structural damage to the building. With... more
An immortality that Soviet Russia has heretofore allotted only to Lenin and Marx is bestowed upon the countrys greatest writer, Maxim Gorky. - Variety One of the noblest achievements of pre-war... more
Inspired by an ancient Russian folk tale and adapted from the novella by Daniel Chongadze, the Legend of Suram Fortress is a dazzling film by visionary director Sergei Paradjanov (Ashik Kerib,... more
An extraordinary drama set against the Russian Civil War, Commissar is a "brave, humane, and powerful work" (The New York Times) that tells the story of Klavdia Vavilova, a fierce Red Army woman... more
A TAIL OF PERSONAL GROWTH Writer-director Ivan I. Tverdovsky's prize-winning sophomore feature (Special Prize of the Jury at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Best Picture at Fantastic Fest) deftly mixes... more