Ignotas Comes Back

Brigade Commander Ivanov

Story of combrig Ivanov who wished to marry a prayers' daughter.

Mother

Only fragments exist of this early version of Mat [Mother] by Aleksandr Razumnyj.

The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt

The Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj and starring Jenny Jugo, Rudolf Forster and Henri De Vries. It is one of many film adaptations of the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin's 1834 short story The Queen of Spades.

Our Cinema

The Adventures of Corporal Kochetkov

Gunner-gunner Corporal Vasily Kochetkov meets Valya Gradskaya, a saleswoman at the military trade center, and becomes a frequent guest in her family. He soon realizes that the girl and her grandmother are spies. Kochetkov informs the command of his suspicions and is given the task of continuing to play the role of the groom.

Without Prejudice

The film was made on the basis of the literary version of events in the life of the famous Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, biologist and traveler who studied the indigenous population of South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Timur and His Team

A story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the years before WWII.

Gang of Batka Knysh

Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs. A group of Red Army officers are posing as a gang of Batka Knysh to provoke the White Russians before the final blow.

Бегствующий остров

Kara Bugas

During the retreat from Baku in 1920, prisoners of the White Army counterintelligence are dropped off on an uninhabited island in the Caspian Sea, where they are left to die of hunger and thirst. Four of them—the Bolsheviks Miller, Zanoza, Nesterova, and the scientist Shatsky—manage to escape.

Личное дело

The Battle At Sokol

Story of children in the village of Sokol, whose war game turns into reality with the German invasion on June 22, 1941. As their village faces danger, the children come together to help defend it, assisting with tasks like extinguishing bombs and supporting those left behind.

The World Isn't A Convent

White and Black

The plot is built on the external similarity of the characters - a millionaire and an apache killer.

The Edukators

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie

In a loose retelling of the Revolutionary Girl Utena TV series, Utena Tenjou arrives at Ohtori Academy, only to be immediately swept up in a series of duels for the hand of her classmate Anthy Himemiya and the power she supposedly holds. At the same time, Utena reunites with Touga Kiryuu, a friend from her childhood who seems to know the secrets behind the duels. Utena must discover those secrets for herself, before the power that rules Ohtori claims her and her friends, new and old.

Land and Freedom

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

Kolya

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.

The Last Emperor

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

Under Fire

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.