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- DirectorNijole AdomenaiteBoris GorlovStarsNatalya NikulenkoAleksandr BashurovOleg KroetikovWhile detained in one of the Soviet Gulags (prison work camps), Maria fell in love with and had a child by one of the camp guards. However, in order to save her baby, she was manipulated into a situation where she had to betray her lover. The main attraction of this film is the clear depiction it gives of the harsh conditions of life in these infamous camps.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsNatalia ChakhovskaiaA look at life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- DirectorVladimir DenisenkoStarsAnatoliy SokolovskiyViktor MalyarevichNikolay OleynikThe story is set in a small village during the German occupation of Ukraine. When one of the local partisans kills a German officer, the occupants vow to kill the whole village if the perpetrator is not found and delivered to them.
- DirectorVittorio De SetaA documentary about the celebration of spring called the "Feast of Silver" which is celebrated in the remote province of Cosenza.
- DirectorFridrikh ErmlerStarsVasili ShulginFyodor Nikolayevich PetrovSergey SvistunovThis Soviet movie consists of a long interview between historian Sergei Svistunov and Vasily Vitalyevich Shulgin. Shulgin was one of the organizers of the reactionary White Army, the leader of the State Duma and a staunch enemy of the Bolsheviks.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsAndré ForestEtienne RozeOlivier NelleThe contrast between the daily lives of five french Augustinian monks in the monastery Castelnuovo dell'Abate and the life in the village of Montalcino.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiThe confession of a man who was the director of a factory in Lower Silesia. "He was a Party member but opposed to the Mafia-like organization of Party members which was active in that factory and region.
- DirectorYakov PoselskyStarsAleksandr Aleksandrovitch FedotovIvan Andreevitch KalinnikowNikolai KrylenkoIn 1930, during what became known as the Industrial Party Trial, some members of the Soviet technical elite were tried for plotting to form a counter-revolutionary party. This documentary depicts that trial, in which a dozen men are prosecuted for crimes against the Russian Revolution. They promptly confess and are given the chance to address the court with an explanation. Full of remorse, they plead for the opportunity to pay off their debt to society by working. Then they wait for their sentence. What was presented in 1930 as a documentary we now know is a registration of a show trial. Said to have been fabricated by Stalin himself, its aim was to serve as a cautionary tale for anyone who had ever thought of standing up to the Soviet regime. The film is now a unique document, capturing the spirit of the times. Produced by the Central Studio for Documentary Film, which was the largest Soviet newsreel and documentary studio, this film was one of the first to feature sound recorded on location.
- DirectorDziga Vertov
- DirectorPeter WatkinsStarsMichael AspelPeter GrahamDave BaldwinA docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
- DirectorMikhail KalikStarsNatalya BogunovaEvgeniy SteblovAnna RodionovaGoodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. It's summer, and their main goals are swimming in the Black Sea and wooing the girl all three of them love. However, they are asked to become officers in the military, and slowly their worlds begin changing forever. Their parents oppose them, they begin fearing losing each other and their families, and the military tricks and maneuvers them into joining the army instead of the navy.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsGela KandelakiGogi ChkheidzeJansug KakhidzeA carefree young percussionist roams the streets of Tbilisi, interacting with friends and strangers alike, and tries to avoid responsibilities.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsStepan ShkuratSemyon SvashenkoYuliya SolntsevaIn the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsAndrei BoltnevNina RuslanovaAndrey MironovRussian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
- DirectorBoris BarnetStarsYelena KuzminaMikhail ZharovNikolay BogolyubovOutskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsRolan BykovAnatoliy SolonitsynVladimir ZamanskiyA Soviet POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Germans.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
- DirectorAbram RoomStarsDmitri DorlyakOlga ZhiznevaYuri YuryevThe characters debate the role of free love and free will within the Soviet social and political economy.
- DirectorAleksandr MedvedkinStarsPyotr ZinovyevYelena YegorovaMikhail GipsiA hapless man undergoes misadventures with avaricious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary on his road to collectivized happiness.