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Post-Soviet movies, across the all republics of Soviet Union except Russia
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- DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsLembit UlfsakElmo NüganenGiorgi NakashidzeIn 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.
- DirectorBoris KvashnevStarsAleksandr PeskovVladimir GostyukhinOleg RogachyovAfter the Afghan captivity, Nikolai Naydenov, a former orphanage, ends up in the United States, gets a job as an instructor in one of the sports clubs, gets married and receives American citizenship. Life is developing as well as possible. After a while, he comes to his former homeland to his army friend Sergei and learns from his wife that Sergei was killed by order of the leaders of one of the clans of the local mafia. The next day, after brutal torture, the militants also kill Sergei's pregnant wife with several blows to the stomach.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsViktor NemetsVladimir GolovinAleksey VertkovA few days in the life of truck driver Georgi, which seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power.
- DirectorAkhtem SeitablaevStarsDinara AvazAleksey GorbunovUsnie KhalilovaA story about a tragic date in the history of the Crimean Tatar nation - 18 of may 1944 -Stalin's deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Main character of the film - a pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Amehtan Sultan - goes on furlough to his native town Alupka in May of 1944 and witnesses the deportation.
- DirectorTymur YashchenkoStarsDmitriy SovaEvgeniy LamakhRoman SemysalThe crew of Ukrainian NAVY minesweeper U311 "Cherkasy" is resisting seizure of the vessel by Russian army in Crimea in 2014.
- DirectorAndrii IvaniukStarsBogdan BenyukAnatoliy MaksymiyukThis is a portrait of a man, for whom the war in Eastern Ukraine has become a personal challenge. Beard is a native of the Donbas, a man of about forty-five, a family guy, an ordinary worker. Director is a young man of about twenty-six, single, a west-man, coming from the intelligentsia. This is the usual day of the ordinary military. These are events and people whom you can meet there. This is the relationship between people who have to be here and now during the war. This is not only a unique life experience but also a kind of cultural exchange between different social strata and communities. This is the birth of new, special traditions.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsTamara YatsenkoIrina ZayarmiukGrigory MasliukIn eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.
- DirectorLevan KoguashviliStarsLevan TedaishviliGiorgi TabidzeNadezhda MikhalkovaGeorgian wrestler Kakhi travels to Brooklyn to help his son out of a gambling debt.
- DirectorRoman PerfilyevStarsRoman LutskyiSergey StrelnikovKateryna SlyusarWhat if Taras Shevchenko put down his pen and took a samurai sword into his hands?
- DirectorPeter BebjakStarsTomas MastalirEmília VásáryováAndrej HrycThere are borders you cross only once... Criminal thriller about traffickers and smugglers from Ukrainian border. The feature film about the borders and the life on their edge.
- DirectorAleksey ShaparevStarsBoris AbramovStanislav BoklanEvgeniy GalichFilm tells an exciting story of a confrontation between talented boxer and criminal patrons of mixed fights MMA.
- DirectorAntonio LukichStarsAmil NasirovRamil NasirovNataliya GnitiyMykola and Vasya go in search of their father, who left them when they were children, after they come to know that he is dying in Luxembourg. Kolya considers him a hero, while Vasya thinks he is a scoundrel.
- DirectorMaryna Er GorbachStarsOksana CherkashynaSergey ShadrinOleg ShcherbinaAfter flight MH17 crashes in eastern Ukraine, violent tensions disrupt the lives of an expecting couple living in Donetsk.
- DirectorMarian BushanStarsPavlo AldoshynMaryna KoshkinaAndrey MostrenkoAfter suffering a tragedy at the hand of invading soldiers in Donbas, an Ukrainian physics teacher seeks revenge. He sets his sights on an elite Russian sniper whose elimination could change the tide of the conflict.
- DirectorOles YanchukStarsSergey FrolovIrma VitovskaVictoria YanchukThe Secret Diary of Simon Petliura takes an unprecedented look at the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic, which declared an independent Ukraine in 1918, and the later assassination of the UNR's chairman, Symon Petliura in Paris in 1926, orchestrated by the Kremlin at the start of the Soviet occupation of Ukraine.
- DirectorAleksandr DenisenkoStarsBoris OrlovAnna TopchiyYuriy ShulganFew weeks of Taras Shevchenko in Kazakhstan exile, before his discharge out of army, when agents of the secret police were in hot pursuit of him.
- DirectorOlga RyashinaStarsIvan BlindarVolodymyr GevaMaria StopnykA feature-length film based on the story "Me, a Pobeda and Berlin" by the legendary Ukrainian musician Kuzma Scryabin.
- DirectorOles SaninStarsSergey StrelnikovOleksiy HnatkovskyyDaria PlakhtiiIn the Carpathian mountains, a man becomes an outlaw who helps his people.
- DirectorDmytro Sukholytkyy-SobchukStarsOleksandr YatsentyukStanislav PotiakSolomiia KyrylovaPamfir wants to be a decent family man, but challenging circumstances force him to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.
- DirectorOleh SentsovStarsSerhii FilimonovEvhen ChernykovYevhen GrygorievThe history of the film unfolds in the 1990s in Ukraine. The protagonist - a bandit nicknamed Rhinoceros - falls into the grip of the Ukrainian criminal world in the 1990s and begins his bloody path, which leads him not where he expected.
- DirectorJohn WynnAkhtem SeitablaevStarsRobert PatrickTommy FlanaganPoppy DraytonThe Mongol Empire had grown to the largest the world had ever known. Its armies now laid siege to much of Eastern Europe. A small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains.
- DirectorSerg SkobunStarsValeriy KharchyshynNikita VakaryukMariya YaremchukAs Carpathian legend has it, Oleksa Dovbush was a heroic outlaw with excellent fighting skills and a gift to predict the future. He was left an orphan as a small boy after a local lord murdered Oleksa's mother. After spending his childhood in exile in the mountains, he returned as a grown man to avenge his mother's death. Oleksa gathered followers to begin a crusade against the lord, but destiny made other plans for him.
- DirectorAkhtem SeitablaevStarsAndrey SamininMaksym DevizorovEvgeniy LamakhThe story of trust and its absence against the background of events unfolding in Eastern Ukraine in early 2014. The main topic is revealed through the prism of the Luhansk border base, whose fighters the separatists and Russian special services tried unsuccessfully force to betray their country.
- DirectorEmilis VelyvisStarsIngeborga DapkunaiteVytautas KaniusonisAinis StorpirstisCommissioner Gintas must undertake the investigation of a series of heinous murders, a dangerous task that could expose the many dirty secrets of several prominent members of the social elite of a small Lithuanian town.
- DirectorYaroslav LodyginStarsOleg MoskalenkoVladimir YamnenkoAleksey GorbunovHerman Korolyov, 33, is getting by, working a meaningless executive job in a big city. One day he gets a strange call and learns that his older brother has mysteriously disappeared. Herman must go back to his hometown to defend the family business - a small gas station (and with it, old friends and a girlfriend from the past) - against the 'kukuruzniks', mafia-type gangs that are grabbing up businesses and land in the Donbas region and turning them into corn fields and railways that lead nowhere.
- DirectorGeorgi FominStarsIvan BlindarYuriy DyachenkoLyudmila EfimenkoTheater and film actor, Mykola Veresen' dies on the set while performing the role of Ivan the Terrible. In the moment of death, his karma transforms into the bloody murderer he embodied, and he falls into Sheol, a common grave for all the dead. The time has a different flow here, the only feelings left are fear and pain. In hell Mykola learns about the confrontation that last for centuries between the white and black vampires, he becomes a puppet in the cruel guerrilla of these two supernatural groups.
- DirectorAleksandr KobzarStarsKsenya BashaBogdan BenyukAleksandr KobzarBusinessman Vlad Artemiev returns to his native home, where he learns about the death of his father, with whom he has not been in touch for almost a quarter of a century. Memories of the past prevent Vlad from moving on, so he tries to correct all his mistakes. What was hiding behind the long silence of the closest men?
- DirectorAleksey ShaparevStarsMaksim DonetsAndrey FedinchikAlina KovalenkoUkraine, 1918. As a Bolshevik army of about 4.000 men, commanded by General Muravyov, advances towards Kyiv, with the aim of capturing the city, a small Ukrainian unit of 400 soldiers -about 300 of which are students- is resisting near the railroad station of Kruty. The clash between the opposite and unequal forces rages, with terrible fury. Young people, like Spartan soldiers, sacrifice themselves in a struggle against aggressors.
- DirectorTaras DudarStarsVladislav MamchurLyudmila ZagorskayaVlad NikityukThe eternal desire of a man to love a real and unique Woman paints different images in the imagination of screenwriter Ivan Gerasimov. From time to time he meets with the women of his dreams - a romantic young lady, a relaxed prostitute, a mysterious lady with a veil and - his wife - Ivan ceases to understand which of these women is reality, and which is only a figment of his imagination. In search of answers, he finds himself in the mystical station cafe Gendelyk. Thanks to the "accidental" meeting with Bartender and Sputnik, various emotional memories from life emerge in his memory: first love, funny oddities, moments of incredible happiness and unbearable suffering. These memories help Ivan understand himself and become free.
- StarsRadmila ShegolevaAleksey PetrenkoBogdan StupkaThe main events of the film unfold in the difficult times for Ukraine. After the death of Khmelnytsky, the struggle for hetman power between Yakim Somk and Ivan Bryukhovetsky intensifies, and the Black Rada of 1663 culminates in a fierce political confrontation. Against the backdrop of political intrigues, unexpected alliances and betrayals, another storyline is unfolding - love - Large-scale battle scenes, picturesque national costumes, famous and beloved actors make the film attractive to the widest possible audience.
- DirectorGrigoriy KokhanStarsSergey RomanyukGeorgiy MorozyukAnastasiya BuninaThe Communist Russia re-occupies Western Ukraine in 1939, after Communist Russia and Nazi Germany brutally divided Europe in accordance with the secret protocol of The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. UIA fighters are Ukraine's only hope now
- DirectorOles YanchukStarsValeriy LeginMarina MogilevskayaOrest OgorodnikThe film covers the period from 1947, when UPA troops broke with fights abroad, and to autumn of 1959, when in Munich KGB agent Bohdan Stashynskyi killed Stepan Bandera.
- DirectorOles YanchukStarsIrina BardakovaNikolay BoklanOleg DrachOne hundred soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, led by Michael Duda (Hromenko) fearlessly fighting with the Bolshevics and with the Nazis.
- DirectorVadim IlyenkoStarsViktor SolovyovAleksei BogdanovichOleg StefanA screen adaptation of Leonid Borodin's novel Trial by Judgment. Last stage of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army's struggle against the NKVD punitive units. The events take place after the end of World War II.
- DirectorEmilis VelyvisStarsDonatas IvanauskasMindaugas PapinigisAndrius PaulaviciusZERO is an 0 sucking in a young deserter, a casino victim and three heroin brothers. That is a destiny, a mixture of objectives and desires of heroes. That is a lifestyle balancing on the edge - bullets, numbers and needles.
- DirectorEmilis VelyvisStarsZemyna AsmontaiteDonatas IvanauskasKestutis Stasys JakstasWhat would you get if you mix a gangster film and a soap opera? "Zero 2" is a crazy twister of criminal romance and sexy violence that just might laugh you to death.
- DirectorEmilis VelyvisStarsAndrius BialobzeskisRamunas CicenasArvydas DapsysA outrageous crime - action - comedy examining corruption and greed in Lithuanian politics.
- DirectorTadas VidmantasStarsPaulius AmbrazeviciusTimuras AuguceviciusKristijonas BartoseviciusBlack comedy "Received call" documentary style tells a story police headquarters. Redundancy intimidate officials are working diligently as ever, but the call-outs this month as if deliberately so that small does not appear. One of the officials get caught in the workplace-using stolen and evidence room kept drugs. Explosions, shootings, helicopters, love, erotic, music stars, movie stars and much more.
- DirectorRamunas RudokasStarsRamunas RudokasAgne SataiteSarunas DatenisBased on true story of four friends who decided to take over the city. Giedrius is released after serving a long 12 year sentence for unlawful conduct he did with his friends while being a child.
- DirectorAudrius JuzenasStarsAldona BendoriuteMonika BiciunaiteDaumantas CiunisRadio Free Europe, BBC, and Voice of America can only rarely get through the Iron Curtain and Soviet mufflers to Lithuania, a country torn by a war between the local resistance movement and the Soviet regime that is forced onto Lithuanian people by bayonets of the Russian army. Everybody who tries to resist the Soviet rule is either terrorized or executed or exiled to Siberia. He is one of the local high-school students who witness the local armed resistance to the Soviet regime and ultimately decide to join it by taking a gun into their hands. He collects documents and all possible kinds of evidence that prove daunting crimes of the Kremlin. He soon becomes a legend among his peers. To girls, he is John Wayne the Hollywood Icon. Guys see him as an insurmountable obstacle and an invincible rival in matters of love. He is destined to take part at the historical March to the West and inform the US Congress of the Baltic States' struggle for freedom, which subsequently leads to the Welles Declaration. The latter drives a wedge between two former allies, the USA and the USSR, and keeps the hope for independence alive in the three Baltic States under the Soviet occupation during the long years of the entire Cold War. "Owl Mountain" is a full lenght feature historical drama about the political and social issues of Lithuania in 1947-1952 m. which reflect most of Soviet occupied countries' life. It's about the journey of committed partisans and the message they carry out, about devotion and bloody fight, internecine relationships, love and hate, postwar generation, fear to die but not strong enough to defeat the aim for independence. That's the story of hope which is symbolized by the Voice of America. Story of reckless risk, survival, unity, and here the Jewish are stated as the best example of encouragement. Story of friendship, also with the different cultures but same destinies, such as hiding Germans. That's the story about sacrifice for freedom, for national, social and finally simple human happiness.
- DirectorAlgimantas PuipaStarsValentinas MasalskisSteven BerkoffLiubomiras LauceviciusA man who was imprisoned by the Nazis later writes of his experience, then he is imprisoned by the Soviets, just as oppressive as the Germans.
- DirectorAudrius JuzenasStarsHeino FerchSebastian HülkErika MarozsánIn 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beans stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jewish Chief of Police, Gens, uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.