About the Hippopotamus Who Was Afraid of Inoculations
Fabulous animals bathed, rested and had fun on the summer beach of the southern town. Suddenly, the rest was interrupted by an urgent message on a hanging poster: “Everyone needs…
The Bouquet
A husband becomes unfaithful to his wife, and buys a bouquet of flowers which he wants to give an another woman. But that woman doesn’t come to the meeting, so…
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant,…
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga…
The Chairman
Year 1947… Yegor Trubnikov is giving all his powers to make life in his own Kolhoz better.
Father Frost
A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.
A Tale of Lost Times
Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to return to…
Summer Is Over
A family comedy about funny adventures of two six-graders during the summer vacations.
The Timid One
Based on Dostoevsky’s short story, ‘A Gentle Being.’
The Volunteers
A romantic and heroic story set during the 30th – the 50th years in USSR about a life of the first builders of the Moscow subway…
To the Black Sea
A young couple is traveling to the Black Sea with their car planning to have a wedding on the way.
I Have Met a Girl
Lola’s father leaves according to old traditions and tries to keep the reputation of his daughter unstained while local arts club director pressures her to sing at the annual youth…
Tiger Girl
The story is about heiress of the circus family who organizes show “Let’s get married” right in the cage for the tigers.
The Night Before Christmas
A cartoon based on the works of Nikolay Gogol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking. Even to…
The Turning Point
A Soviet 1945 film directed by Fridrikh Ermler based on a screenplay by Boris Chirskov. The film was one of the Cannes top prize winners of 1946.
It Happened in the Donbass
The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbass and continue the work…
The Prince and the Pauper
Two look-alike boys, one a poor street kid and the other a prince, exchange places to see what the other’s life is like.
Mysterious Island
Based on Verne’s book The Mysterious Island, five POWs escape from a camp in a balloon during the Civil War and crash-land on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. Trying…
The Shining Path
Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately…
Engineer Kochin’s Error
Engineer-designer of the Moscow aviation plant Cochin took the secret blueprints home. He didn’t know that foreign intelligence had long been hunting for these blueprints…
Seekers of Happiness
During the 1920s, many impoverished Jews searching for a better life made their way to Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region on the Chinese border. This melodrama tells the story…
Shame
Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called “The Song of the Counterplan”, composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became…
Enthusiasm
A lyrical documentary on the lives of Coal miners in the Donbass who are struggling to meet their production quotas under the Five Year Plan.
The Diplomatic Pouch
A Soviet diplomat is being pursued by the evil British police and is fatally injured by a railway line (incidently the visuals certainly hint at what Dovzhenko was to achieve…
Battleship Potemkin
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the…