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A man tries to escape from his wife in order to visit an exhibition, where he sees a painting representing his own house.
May 1958
Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.
May 1959
The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.
Mar 1979
The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky's first film, produced when he was a student at the State Institute of Cinematography.
Jan 1956
Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century.
Feb 1967
Kasian Nefedovich decides to convey his last wish, of burying him beside his wife's grave, to his daughter Zinke and spend some time with her. But she doesn't allow him to stay with her family.
Jan 1982
Phone conversation between an abandoned husband and his friend.
May 1967
A short film about young delinquents terrorizing a neighbourhood.
Jan 1961
Ivan Baikalov, the secretary of the District Committee, is the first person to come to him with any question: grain harvesting machines, alimony, crankshafts... - the party leader of the Altai village should know and be able to do everything. The wife of a young doctor came to seek protection from Baikalov - her husband is cheating! And from Lebyazhego they inform that in three days rains will fall, and the only one who will be able to organize the work and not to rot the bread is Pyotr Ivlev. But on the secretary's desk is an anonymous letter: the district doctor has had an affair with Pyotr's wife. What is more important - grain harvesting or the family of a young party member?
Feb 1960
The story is about a nasty boy who blackmails his older sister and the young man who is in love with her.
Jan 1974
The boy writes an essay at school in which he wants to be like his father - with mayonnaise, i.e. "MNS" (junior research fellow).
Oct 1986
Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom are scarred by the trauma of the Russian Empire of yesteryear.
Sep 1987
The launch of the space rocket is scheduled for Wednesday. Final preparations are underway in the shed. Yulia, Borya, and Petya are waiting for Misha. But Misha has lost interest in the project — it's much more fun to play in the sea. And a garage is about to be built on the site of the shed. The only one who can't come to terms with the cancellation of the flight is little Alka. Early in the morning, he climbs into the spaceship and presses the “Start” button.
Jan 1962
A surreal film done in the style of a silent farce.
Jun 1967
A short film based on a story by E. Steblov.
Sep 1968
Winter. Snow is sweeping, a blizzard howls. The wife of old Foma died. Fomka takes a coffin on a sleigh to a village graveyard along a deserted, dusty winter road, and he sees that Nastasiya is walking barefoot in the snow - alive, young, as on a photograph...
Jan 1968
A screen adaptation of the short story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.
Jan 1973
The young Petrukha couple live in a village - a kind, docile husband and strict wife. Soon, twins are born to them.
Jan 1971
The absence of speech of the characters, and the only dialogue is whistled, because you can feel, but you can't talk.The background sounds like parallel, fictional worlds - worlds that exist simultaneously with ours, but independently of it, especially the sounds of radios (as the reference to the search of "another life" in the radio broadcasts).
Mar 1988
Lost among the mountains is the small town of Achisai with a mine - the embodiment of the ideal Stalinist paradise.
Feb 1988