All USSR / Russian films about WW2
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- DirectorViktor EysymontStarsZoya FyodorovaMariya KapustinaOlga FyodorinaDuring the Finnish war, a group of Soviet girls voluntarily go to the front. They help doctors save the lives of wounded soldiers, and also fight with the enemy.
- DirectorVladimir BraunStarsIvan PereverzevAndrey FaytLeonid KmitA German submarine disguised as a merchant sailboat attacks foreign merchant ships and drowns them. The Soviet merchant ship, turned into a warship, sets off for the interception of a "pirate".
- DirectorYevgeni ShneiderStarsNikolay KryuchkovAleksandr GrechanyyPavel ShpringfeldDuring the Winter War three Soviet soldiers perform a risky recon mission.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsVasili VaninMarina LadyninaViktor KulakovThe hero of this WWII Soviet propaganda effort is a regional Communist Party secretary, who stays behind as the Army pulls out, to lead a partisan unit.
- DirectorKonstantin YudinStarsBoris ChirkovMarina LadyninaVladimir GribkovThe film continues the story of the military exploits of the cook-soldier Antosha Rybkin, the hero of "Combat Movie Collection N3". Antosha replaces a missing actor of the front-line brigade of artists and quite successfully plays the role of German corporal. But the alarm sounds. Using his costume, the resourceful hero penetrates the rear of the enemy and causes panic among the Nazis. The enemy takes flight, and Antosha returns to his direct duties as a cook.
- DirectorIsidor AnnenskyVladimir PetrovStarsEvgeniy SamoylovEvgeniya GorkushaYuri Aleqsi-MeskhishviliThe struggle of Czechoslovak patriots against the Nazi invaders during the years of fascist occupation. The plot of the film is based on actual events that were reported after that time.Georgian SSR
- DirectorSergey VasilevGeorgi VasilyevStarsBoris ZhukovskyBoris BabochkinPavel GeragaFront commanders Gorlov is a military commander who went through a civil war, unable to apply new methods of warfare in the fight against fascists.
- DirectorLeonid LukovStarsMark BernesBoris AndreyevVera ShershnyovaA story of infantry soldiers on the Leningrad front during the German invasion of Russia in WWII, which stresses the importance of friendship between combatants from different regions and ethnicities.
- DirectorLeonid TraubergStarsGalina SergeyevaBoris BabochkinZinaida MorskayaZoya Vladimirovna Strelnikova, a famous operetta actress, quits the theater and gets a nanny in a military hospital. There she meets the wounded major Peter Nikolayevich Markov.
- DirectorGerbert RappaportStarsMikhail ZharovLyudmila TselikovskayaBoris BlinovA middle-aged pilot Ivan Baranov falls in love with the beginning operatic singer Natasha Kulikova, having become acquainted with her during the forced landing of his plane.
- DirectorBoris IvanovAleksandr StolperStarsBoris BlinovValentina SerovaLev SverdlinThe film tells about front-line friendship and love. Three friends: journalist Misha Weinstein and two pilots, Major Nikolay Ermolov and Andrey Panov, promised to meet each other after the war. During one of the reconnaissance flights, the plane under the command of Ermolov was shot down by the Nazis and the pilot, with his navigator and journalist, took refuge in an abandoned hut, where they decided to defend to the last.
- DirectorDiomide AntadzeNikoloz ShengelaiaStarsNato VachnadzeKira AndronikashviliAleksandre OmiadzeKakhetian village and the Battle of the Caucasus.Georgian SSR
- DirectorViktor EysymontStarsNina IvanovaNatalya ZashchipinaAda VoytsikWoven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a constant anticipation of the advancing German army and air raids.
- DirectorGregory RatoffLaslo BenedekStarsRobert TaylorSusan PetersJohn HodiakPropaganda film from WW2, designed to raise the awareness of the American public regarding USSR's fight against Nazi Germany.
- DirectorLev ArnshtamStarsGalina VodyanitskayaYekaterina SkvortsovaKseniya TarasovaA popular, inspirational biography of a World War II Soviet heroine, showing her life in flashback as she is captured and tortured fighting the German invaders.
- DirectorYakov AvdeyenkoYuliya SolntsevaAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsLeonid KhmaraOleksiy FyodorovHermann GöringDepicts the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.
- DirectorVladimir LegoshinStarsSergei LukyanovVladimir BelokurovAndrey TutyshkinThe Second World War. A new L-2 heavy duty gun is being supplied to the Soviet Army. German intelligence needs to seize a new secret weapon.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsMarina LadyninaEvgeniy SamoylovIvan LyubeznovDesigned as a successor to "They Met In Moscow", with the same director, star and composer, "Six P. M." (1946 American release title) has two artillery officers meeting an attractive girl in Moscow between battles. One falls in love with her and they vow to meet in Moscow on a bridge at Six P.M. when the war ends. The war puts them on diverse trails, but the pledge is fulfilled against a setting of Moscow's famous fireworks displays.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsAleksandr ZarkhiStarsNikolay KryuchkovBoris AndreyevAkaki KhoravaA World War II era Soviet war film, focusing on the role of the Red Navy rather than land forces, and reviving the 1920s concept of the collective hero.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsNatalya UzhviyNina AlisovaElena TyapkinaA bitter anti-Nazi film, "The Rainbow" details the sufferings of a Ukrainian village during 30 days of occupation.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsYelena KuzminaAnna LisyanskayaVasiliy ZaychikovThe story of one of the Soviet women transported to Germany after the Nazi invasion in World War II for forced labor, this one forced to become a household drudge.
- DirectorLeonid LukovStarsTatyana OkunevskayaElena TyapkinaVera AltayskayaThe film tells the story of Soviet youth, bravely fought in the Great Patriotic War against the fascist invaders in the Donbass region occupied by the Germans.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsAmvrosi BuchmaVenyamin ZuskinLidiya KartashyovaTaras Yatsenko and his family lead an underground battle against Nazis in Donbas.
- DirectorFridrikh ErmlerStarsMikhail DerzhavinPyotr AndriyevskyYuriy TolubeevReleased after the Russian victory over the Germans in WWII, the film stresses the role of the officer staff during the Battle of Stalingrad.
- DirectorMikhail ZharovStarsLyudmila TselikovskayaAleksandr GraveMikhail ZharovA touching comedy introduces us to ordinary soldiers who have taken care of the maintenance of a fake airfield that distracts the enemy's attention. Corporal Tonya is loved by two pilots - Hero of the Soviet Union Kroshkin and French officer Laroshel, who visit the girl between fights. The film, in particular, shows to whom and why she will give her preference.
- DirectorSemyon TimoshenkoStarsNikolay KryuchkovVasiliy MerkurevVasili NeshchiplenkoAbout three Russian pilots falling in love during the WWII.
- DirectorAleksandr FaintsimmerAdolf MinkinStarsAleksandr LarikovMariya DomashyovaAndrei AbrikosovSoviet sailors boldly defend Leningrad from the German fascists.
- DirectorAbram RoomStarsIvan BersenevNikolai MordvinovOlga ZhiznevaAfter announcement that Hitler attacked Soviet Union, partisan leader Slavko Babic starts the uprising against fascist authorities on June 22, 1941.USSR/Yugoslavia
- DirectorBoris BarnetStarsPavel KadochnikovAmvrosi BuchmaViktor DobrovolskySoviet agent Fedotov must cross over into German occupied Ukraine and steal the correspondence between a high ranking German general and Hitler.
- DirectorAleksandr IvanovStarsArturs DimitersLudmila SpilbergaVelta LineIn July 1941 when German troops invaded Latvia the Soviet army retreated, along with it also the commander of the Latvian army Augusts Grieze.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsVladimir IvanovInna MakarovaNonna MordyukovaThe film is set in the city of Krasnodon (Sorokyne) in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Ukrainian SSR (now Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine). Local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance. The teens manage to outsmart the Nazis in their fight. They blow up the Nazi recruitment offices. Their activity lifts the spirits of the surviving citizens. They organize other school-friends in the groups of five to help the citizens in their struggle for survival. Their courage helps many others to survive.
- DirectorAleksandr FaintsimmerVladimir Korsh-SablinStarsVladimir DruzhnikovYuriy TolubeevAleksandr KhvylyaYoung railroad worker, seemingly accommodating to Nazi overlords at a captured rural depot, secretly spearheads acts of sabotage against the evil occupying forces.
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsAleksei DikijMaksim ShtraukhViktor KhokhryakovA large-scale battle between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany from the point of view of Stalin.
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovStarsVladlen DavydovKonstantin NassonovBoris AndreyevAfter the historic April 1945 meeting at the Elbe River in enemy Germany of the allied US and USSR troops, things go sour, the Americans reject Russian friendship,and begin to reinstall the Fascists in their new ally of West Germany.
- DirectorAleksandr FaintsimmerVladimir LegoshinStarsNatalya ZashchipinaLeonid KotovPavel KadochnikovThe Great Patriotic War is over, but Major Sorokin and Colonel Dobrygin still have a lot to do for their homeland. They must go to West Germany in order to find and return the children who were taken out of the Soviet Union by the Nazis and are now kept in atrocious conditions under the supervision of British intelligence. Former allies want to grow real spies out of their children.
- DirectorKonstantin YudinStarsSergei GurzoAleksey GribovTamara ChernovaThe rival of a worker on a Cossack stud farm exposes him during the war as a Nazi and rescues the owner's daughter from a train about to be blown up by partisans.
- DirectorMikheil ChiaureliStarsMikheil GelovaniBoris AndreyevVladimir SavelevA years-long struggle of the Soviet people against the German war machine is shown from the point of view of Stalin and from the point of view of an ordinary soldier and his beloved girl.
- DirectorAleksandr IvanovStarsAnatoliy VerbitskiyAleksei PokrovskyIrina RadchenkoThe command of one of the Soviet divisions becomes aware of the alleged enemy counterattack. Scouts sent to the enemy rear to clarify the data did not return. A new group of seven scouts called the Star is led by Lieutenant Travkin.
- DirectorZakhar AgranenkoEduard TisseStarsVasili MakarovVladimir EmelyanovNikolay KryuchkovA look back from the vantage point of the 1950s Thaw era in the USSR at the World War II defense of Brest, in a way that sought to humanize the conflict, this new kind of Soviet war film preceded the similar but more well known The Cranes are Flying.
- DirectorAleksandr IvanovStarsVsevolod SafonovTamara LoginovaLeonid KmitSet in Russia during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War. The war is shown through the eyes of simple soldiers, who are dreaming about love and being loved in a peaceful life, which most of them will never have.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsTatyana SamoylovaAleksey BatalovVasiliy MerkurevVeronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
- DirectorZakhar AgranenkoStarsMark PertsovskiyOlga MalkoYelena StroyevaDuring the brutal siege of Leningrad in the Second World War, musicians are able to stage a public performance of the Seventh Symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsStarsAleksey BatalovInna MakarovaPyotr KonstantinovThe doctor Vladimir Ustimenko is the person of a debt and honor, he is devoted to business to which serves, and is devoted to the one and only love which carries by through all life: love to Varya Stepanova, the eccentrical little girl who is dreaming to become the great actress, but become the geologist. War will cruelly interfere with the fate of heroes and will even more confuse in them, already fragile, the relations. After long and unexpected separation heroes will for the first time meet in front hospital where the army doctor Ustimenko will operate not recovering consciousness "difficult" patient - Varya Stepanova.
- DirectorKonstantin VoinovStarsLidiya SmirnovaValentin ZubkovMikhail PogorzhelskyAfter the partisans Julia, Pavel and Sergei went out on a combat mission, the detachment was surrounded and destroyed by punishers. Years later, a document was discovered stating that one of the three was a traitor.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsSergey BondarchukPavel BoriskinZinaida KirienkoA Soviet soldier, Andrei Sokolov, has been separated from his family by World War II. Suffering in German captivity, he dreams of meeting his darlings after the victory. But cruel fate turned out otherwise.
- DirectorLev GolubStarsAnna KamenkovaVladimir GuskovNikolai BarminDuring World War II in Russia two children seek the father wanted by the Nazi invaders and are given shelter in the forest.
- DirectorEvgeniy TashkovStarsVyacheslav TikhonovValentina KhmaraYuri BelovOdessa is under German siege and is in dire need of water. A special squad is going to fight off the water pumping station and water the city.
- DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsVladimir IvashovZhanna ProkhorenkoAntonina MaksimovaYoung Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
- DirectorVladimir VengerovStarsPyotr GlebovVsevolod PlatovMikhail UlyanovA story about pilots guarding the sky above Leningrad during WWII.
- DirectorVladimir VengerovStarsPyotr GlebovVsevolod PlatovInna KondratevaIn this continuation of the 2 part epic about the air defense of Leningrad during WWII, conditions have improved but there will still be two years left in the struggle.
- DirectorYuliya SolntsevaStarsBoris AndreyevSergei LukyanovVasiliy MerkurevIn early Summer 1941, German troops penetrate into Russia, wreaking human and material destruction. Ivan Orlyukov, a young Russian, takes up arms and rises up against the invader. He is not alone : a whole people struggles with him and manages, through their own self-sacrifice, to expel the Nazis from the motherland. Altogether, they fight fiercely till the full annihilation of the enemy.
- DirectorKonstantin VoinovStarsValentin ZubkovLiliya AleshnikovaTatyana KonyukhovaHaving been seriously wounded in the war, Nikolai is now blind. Then comes a new test: his wife leaves.
- DirectorIgor TalankinStarsBoris TokarevNina UrgantYuri VolkovA movie dedicated to the lives and fates of the youths, that were forced to face the harsh reality of the WWII.
- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsLarisa LuzhinaSofiya PilyavskayaMargarita StrunovaThe simple Russian girl Svetlana arrived in a back-water small town to the darling. But begun war, Igor did not have met Svetlana, and she determined on staying : to wait his return and war end.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyEduard AbalovStarsNikolay BurlyaevValentin ZubkovEvgeniy ZharikovDuring WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
- DirectorRichard ViktorovStarsStanislav LyubshinGeorgi ZhzhyonovSpartak FedotovFate brings together on the front line, in the same trench, very different people, who together will have to withstand a German tank attack. In a difficult environment of constant mortal danger, human characters are revealed.
- DirectorVladimir KrasnopolskiyValeriy UskovStarsPavel KadochnikovNonna TerentyevaZinaida KirienkoSpring, 1943. A military train is heading from a city, just liberated from the fascists. A special carriage with divisional printing-works is hitched to the train. Manager of the printing-works and correspondent expects he will travel alone, and even makes a prudent sign on the door - mines. But gradually the carriage starts to get filled with uninvited fellow travelers. The first were an injured soldier with a girl, then - a pregnant woman with escort, two communist party members, an actress, aunt Pasha, and others. The correspondent has nothing but to put up with it, because he cant turn out people, who suffer from the war, each in his/her own way.
- DirectorViktor IvchenkoStarsRaisa NedashkovskayaVolodymyr SydorchukPyotr VesklyarovMavka loves Lukash,. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment. The strength of Mavka's love breaks the spell, but Kilina curses Mavka.
- DirectorVasili OrdynskyStarsNadezhda FedosovaPyotr LyubeshkinLiliya DzyubaWar time drama set in WWII. Citizen of Moscow gather in a patriotic show of defiance to help slow down the advancing Nazi forces that are closing in on the city.
- DirectorMikhail YershovStarsVija ArtmaneEvgeniy MatveevAnatoliy PapanovTank crew Officer-member Fedotov on the way from a hospital on visiting home became acquainted with young Sonya, mother of three children. After demobilization went back to her. Happiness of them was short. Sonya became ill and died. Soon her husband arrived after children, but left with a father only junior.
- DirectorAleksandr StolperStarsKirill LavrovAnatoliy PapanovAleksey GlazyrinJournalist Ivan Sintsov news of the treacherous attack by Nazi Germany during the catches of southern vacation. As a war correspondent, he becomes a witness to the difficult events of the first months of the war - many departures in 1941.
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsArthur KennedyZhanna ProkhorenkoRaffaele PisuChronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.Italy/USSR
- DirectorNikita KurikhinLeonid MenakerStarsVyacheslav GurenkovGennadiy YukhtinValeriy PogoreltsevDuring World War II, a squad of Soviet POWs steals a tank from Nazi test site and rushes into a desperate shoot over Germany.
- DirectorYuriy LysenkoZdravko VelimirovicStarsOlga LysenkoBranko PlesaNikola PopovicOn October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated by the Red Army and Tito's partisans. But the capital of Yugoslavia is still fraught with danger--a retreating aggressor has mined the city . A special partisan squad goes into an underground maze of tunnels to find and disarm explosives which are still guarded by SS special forces.
- DirectorRezo ChkheidzeStarsSergo ZakariadzeVladimir PrivaltsevAleksandr NazarovAn old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front lines. Reluctant to return home empty-handed, he tries to follow and find him.Georgian SSR
- DirectorTimofei LevchukStarsAnatoli BarchukNina VeselovskayaSilviya SergeichikovaWhen Kiev was released among the documents found in the Gestapo, was found a notebook with Ivan Kudrya's notes. Before the surrender of the city, he (under the name Kondratyuk) was left to perform an important tasks. Deprived of radio and other spying property, which disappeared along with the blown up house, Kudrya was forced to look for ways to contact the Center.
- DirectorRavil BatyrovStarsAnvara AlimovaA. AtakulovUldis Dumpis
- DirectorGrigori PozhenyanStarsViktor AvdyushkoValentin KulikBimbulat VatayevSpring, 1944. The Great Patriotic war. The German fascists are still in Sevastopol. A fierce combat is taking place there. At the same time in Yalta, which has already been freed, life goes on peacefully. People believe that the war has left them, that it is far away and no longer dangerous... But the torpedo motor-boat squadron stationed in Yalta is still having a hard time. Every day Soviet marines undertake dangerous sorties towards the German-occupied Sevastopol.
- DirectorAnton TimonishinStarsIrina MiroshnichenkoAleksandr BelyavskiyYuri VolkovExplosions are raging in one of the ports in the territory occupied by the German fascist invaders. The Gestapo takes all measures to suppress the activity of the partisans, carries out raids and arrests, but all in vain.
- DirectorRolands KalninsStarsAntra LiedskalninaHarijs LiepinsEduards PavulsThree friends (Janis, Zigis and Ricards) serve for the Latvian Legion during the Second World War. Zigis dies trying to join the Soviet side later in the war. Twenty years later Janis and Ricards meet.Latvian SSR
- DirectorValentin VinogradovStarsRegimantas AdomaitisValentina AslanovaLyudmila AbramovaThis film is war parabola with expressive visual style. This not typical point of view about the war for Soviet cinema.
- DirectorVladimir MotylStarsOleg DalGalina FiglovskayaMikhail KokshenovTouching story about love of a young romantic man (Zhenia), who is a soldier of Guard Mortar Division (Division of "Katusha" Reactive Mortars) and a girl-telegraphist (Little Zhenia) at the last months of WW II.
- DirectorVillen AzarovStarsMikhail VolkovGeorgi ZhzhyonovEvgeniy KuznetsovHaving received information about the German spies, the Soviet intelligence officers were able to misinform the clever and cunning enemy with the help of fake reports.
- DirectorVillen AzarovStarsMikhail VolkovGeorgi ZhzhyonovEvgeniy KuznetsovA group of Soviet intelligence officers succeeds in infiltrating the German espionage center Saturn, which carries out subversive activities in the Moscow sector.
- DirectorNikolay LebedevStarsTanya SoldatenkovaKonstantin KornakovNikolai TimofeyevA little girl named Katherine saved one boy's life during the bombing in Leningrad while under the Siege in WWII. The boy cannot speak yet. So she gave him a name Seryozha and provided him with food and care. She was later adopted by the boy's father, who recognized his son.
- DirectorMikhail BoginStarsPola RaksaWieslawa MazurkiewiczBarbara BargielowskaLove story of the Soviet officer and Polish girl in days of war. The battalion where Mikhail and Victor serve, settles down on rest in the Polish village. Friends meet the daughter of the room hostess. Mikhail at first sight falls in love with Zosyu, however it seems to him that it likes Victor. And only when the battalion leaves the village, Mikhail understands that the girl loves him.USSR/Poland
- DirectorNaum BirmanStarsGennady SayfulinOleg DalLev VajnshtejnFilm about the week-days of front aviation in the years of Great Patriotic war.
- StarsVadim BeroevAnastasiya VoznesenskayaViktor PavlovThe Germans planted explosives to blow up the cities of Krakow and Prague, but the underground resistance in Poland works with the Soviets to stop the disaster.
- DirectorMazhit BegalinStarsVsevolod SanaevKauken KenzhetayevVladlen DavydovThe film is dedicated to the legendary Panfilov division, which fought in the Volokolamsk direction near Moscow in 1941, stopped the Nazis and went on the counteroffensive. During the second general offensive of the Wehrmacht against Moscow from November 16 to November 18, 1941, the battalion under the command of B. Momysh-Uly fought heroically on the Volokolamsk highway near the village of Matryonino near Moscow. The skillful leadership of the battalion commander made it possible to detain the Nazis at this turn for three days.
- DirectorViktor TregubovichStarsMikhail KononovOleg BorisovViktor PavlovTo the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting an armored vehicle at the same time he's trying to impress his superior Soviet officers who put him under extreme pressures, one after the other, fighting the German forces occupying Ukraine during World War II. Here's the story of an impressionable man who learns in the hard way that being a leader is more than just using of his commanding voice to get what he wants.
- DirectorShota ManagadzeStarsTengiz ArchvadzeGrigol TkabladzeZurab KapianidzeThe film is based on facts and tells the tragic story of the uprising of the Georgian POW battalion on the island of Texel in the Netherlands at the end of World War II.Georgian SSR
- DirectorLev MirskyStarsViktor ZhukovValeri MalyshevVladimir GrammatikovThe film tells about the fate of a twelve-year-old intelligence officer, a hero of the Great Patriotic War .