We Weren't Married in a Church

A performance by the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky.

By order of General Sytko, a rock ridge explodes during the construction of an important strategic facility in the desert, leading to human casualties. And now General Nesterov will have to mobilize people in the difficult conditions that have arisen and cope with the task in a short time.

1952 Olympic Games. A football match between the USSR national team and the SFRY attracts the close attention of the political leaders of these countries who had quarreled by that time... As soon as the football team lost this match, the CSKA team, the “team of lieutenants”, which was popular in the post-war years, began to have troubles.

Fall, 1921. Wrangel's army, defeated in Crimea after a short stay in Turkey, found refuge in Bulgaria. White Guard Colonel lives here with his son and daughter, while his wife and youngest daughter were sheltered by the family of the Bolshevik, who've been sent to Bulgaria for propaganda work among Russian soldiers.

The Czech film Svítalo All Night was made to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Army and is dedicated to all those who fought and gave their lives in Prague in the May Uprising of 1945. Behind the historical events, the creators see mainly their simple, unassuming participants. Thus, we are presented with a number of apt portraits, whether it is the central hero Dr. Soukup and nurse Daniela on the side of the fighting Czechs, or a captain and a simple private in a Red Army unit coming to the aid of the fighting Prague, or an old, war-weary German major, who only realises the senselessness of the war at the sight of a fanatical, cynical lieutenant for whom Nazi ideology represents the meaning of life.

A future president must have no secrets from the voters — not even in his personal life. Intimate details can become powerful weapons in the hands of political opponents. And so, the presidential candidate is forced to publicly introduce his first wife — a woman he once loved passionately… and then betrayed.

A story of a young man who is returning to his home town after being evacuated as a boy during WWII.

In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors.

In a remote village in Karelia, Sergeant Vaskov commands an anti-aircraft unit that protects a rail depot. While his men are transferred to the front line, he is reprimanded for their unruly behavior. He retorts that he wants replacements that aren't drunks or womanizers. In response, he is assigned a unit made up entirely of young women, fresh from training.

Twin sisters Asya and Slavka dream of enrolling in a nautical school. After the first refusal, the girls go to Transbaikalia, get a job at the fur farm, make real friends, fall in love, experience all kinds of adventures and still dream of the sea.

In the early 70-ies during the war in the middle East, the plane of the Soviet military pilot Oleg Zorov was shot down. The officer was still alive but in an unconscious state was captured. After his recovery, the Americans granted him political asylum. Twenty years Zorov, who became Alex Fred Kelly, worked for the CIA. And now, years later, he returns home, where he left his sister and beloved woman…

A passionate pilot dedicates his life to the search for a polar expedition.

The heroes of the film are students of a pedagogical university, those who, after a year or two, have to carry knowledge to schoolchildren, "to sow the rational, good, eternal." In the meantime, student practice. True, the practice is not quite ordinary, because for the first time students leave far from the walls of their own university, for the first time they meet with students in the classroom not in the presence of their teachers, those with whom life encounters them daily at the institute, but with those who have been working for more than a year at school.

One July evening, a vocational school student nicknamed Rooster, a second-year student Balda and the well-read Kid started a fight. And when they saw the police car, the friends fled, stole the car and took two girls with them. However, the night crew's fun will end with tragic consequences.

The film traces the path of the hero (formerly an ensign and a Knight of St. George, and then a talented commander of the Red Army) from the Civil War to the Great Patriotic War.

The film is dedicated to the defenders of Odessa, the Marines who fought against the Nazi invaders.