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The young Petrukha couple live in a village - a kind, docile husband and strict wife. Soon, twins are born to them.
Jan 1971
Dec 1969
Oct 1966
Since early childhood I have been playing different games. And the older I get, the more dangerous it is for me to lose, and the more dangerous it is for others to win. God! Leave me one game - hide and seek. This is the only game I agree to play for the rest of my life.
Jan 1989
Jan 1986
Lost among the mountains is the small town of Achisai with a mine - the embodiment of the ideal Stalinist paradise.
Feb 1988
Ahmed’s father has only a day with his wife and son before he must return to war. With haunting, innocent cruelty, the children play games that mirror the adult world, leading them to discover the harshness of destiny
Jan 1991
A screen adaptation of the short story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.
Jan 1973
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
Phone conversation between an abandoned husband and his friend.
May 1967
Musical fantasy based on the play by M. Gorky.
Feb 1978
A short film based on a story by E. Steblov.
Sep 1968
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
A down on his luck peasant goes to fight in World War I and returns home a hero. Partially lost.
Jan 1921
A surreal film done in the style of a silent farce.
Jun 1967
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
A young woman named Nadya arrives in Moscow to enroll at a college. After failing her exams, she stays with a man named Vitaly. The two become an item, but their relationship sours when she gets pregnant.
Jul 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
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.
Oct 1986
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