VGIK

Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.

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...

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.

Elem Klimov's diploma film at VGIK.

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.

A young schoolboy tries to help the girl he likes to pass a test.

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.

Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century.

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.

A surreal film done in the style of a silent farce.

Short adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine.

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).

The film invites its viewers to reflect on where modern sports have come to. Does a young, honest and uncompromising athlete have a future in the sport or must he go along with the dishonest tricks and the mean game that comes from it all?

A kaleidoscopic living diary of the underground rock scene in Leningrad just before perestroika.

In their first collaboration Melkonian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov film two neighbour families that both claim ownership of a huge mulberry tree growing in the middle of their two houses.

A young woman dreams of marrying a rich and influential man, but her heart treacherously beats for a simple guy from the village of Medvedkino.

A group of Swedish tourists are on the way to a Russian village to witness the so called 'Festivity of Neptunus', in which the inhabitants take a dive in a hole in the ice. This tradition, however, does not exist at all. The inhabitants try to make a good impression by starting the 'tradition' to please the tourists.