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Four

An endemic fever arose in the large Siberian construction area. Four scientists involved in the development of a vaccine against this disease, and whose laboratory was threatened with closure, are sent to the center of the outbreak. They manage to find the cause of the infection and create a vaccine.

In the Soviet Union

A propaganda film aimed at American audiences during the early years of the Cold War.

The Trap

The Fires of Baku

Dedicated to the development of the oil industry of Soviet Azerbaijan in the background of the first half of the twentieth century, including their selfless work in strengthening the economic and military might of the USSR.

The Big Ore

A story of Victor, a young man who is working in a big mine as driver.

The Secret of Beauty

In the city hairdressers' school there are exams. The incapable pupil Kukushkina, having spoiled everything on the head of the next client, asks her suitor - the stylist Edik - to sit in her chair. In love, Edik agrees, and says goodbye to his stylish coke for a long time.

Through All the Years

Alexander Demin and Vassa Druzhinina fell in love with each other in their school years. In the thirties, due to the unjust arrest of her father, Vassa left a small Volga town. They later met, but the war kept them apart until the spring of 1945.

First Love

First Love is based on the eponymous novella by Ivan Turgenev set in the first third of the 19th century. It follows a 16-year old boy who becomes infatuated with a next door neighbor.

Red Square

Dramatizes, in an official Soviet government release, the rise of the Red Army and the revolution that they eventually won.

A Man Was Born

A story of a young girl going through the number of hard events in her life.

Via Gobi and Khingan

About the events of the final stage of the Second World War — the defeat by Soviet and Mongolian troops of the selected Kwantung army. Bacteriological weapons were created in the laboratory of Japanese General Ishii Shiro. Experiments were conducted on prisoners of war and political prisoners. Epidemiologist Dmitry Sokolov was assigned to solve the mystery of this laboratory. At the cost of his own life, he completed the task. The march of Soviet and Mongolian formations through the Gobi sands and the Khingan spurs was not only a brilliant military operation, but also a warning of the use of bacteriological weapons by Japan.

Fellows

A coming-of-age story about the three girl friends who had just graduated school.

Clouds Over Borsk

Tenth grader Olya Ryzhkova can't find understanding among the people around her.

At Your Threshold

War time drama set in WWII. Citizen of Moscow gather in a patriotic show of defiance to help slow down the advancing Nazi forces that are closing in on the city.

The Road to Calvary

St. Petersburg, 1914. Pre-revolutionary bourgeois society, decadent intelligentsia - the signs of this troubled time. The focus is on the Bulavina sisters Dasha and Kata, their personal lives, loves, hobbies, and heartfelt dramas.

The Shield and the Sword

The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military prowess, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the East. The Russian military command suspects hostile intent from Germany and so arranges for its spies to infiltrate ranks of the German military and the SS. Alexander Belov is a Russian spy, who travels from Soviet-held Latvia to Nazi Germany under an alias of Johann Weiss. His mastery of the German language, steel nerves and an ability to manipulate others help him to use his connections in the SS to ascend the ladder of the German intelligence. He uses his position to identify sympathetic Germans, who help him to procure vital intelligence, and to help local resistance movements in their collective fight against Nazism.