Country: Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Maksim Munzuk · Yuriy Solomin · Svetlana Danilchenko · Vladimir Kremena

Plot It is the story of an elderly guide and Goldi hunter (Maxim Munzuk), who, at the turn of the century, agrees to shepherd a Russian explorer (Yuri Solomin) and a...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Nikolai Cherkasov · Serafima Birman · Ludmila Tselikovskaya · Mikhail Nazvanov

Plot Ivan returns to Moscow to discover that there are still conspiracies against him, even the Tsar's aunt wants to get rid of him. However, Ivan manages to foresee his enemies'...

Direction Dziga Vertov

Plot An extraordinary montage of urban Russian life in 1929, showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. It was...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Aleksandr Antonov · Vladimir Barsky · Grigori Aleksandrov · Mikhail Gomorov

Plot The Battleship Potemkin has just returned from the war with Japan, its crew near mutiny because of brutal treatment and bad rations. When they're served maggot-infested meat one morning, the...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Anatoly Solonitsyn · Ivan Lapikov · Nikolai Sergeyev · Nikolai Grinko

Plot Divided in seven sections, 'Andrei Rublev' focuses on the life of the great Russian painter while taking a gaze at medieval Russia during the first quarter of the 15th century,...

Direction Grigori Kozintsev

Cast Innokenti Smoktunovsky · Mikhail Nazvanov · Elza Radzina · Yuri Tolubeyev

Plot The surface of ceremonies and rituals celebrating the coronation of King Claudius and his marriage to Hamlet's mother leaves the young prince indifferent. Hamlet's melancholic nature finds no relief from...

Direction Mikhail Kalatozov

Cast Luz María Collazo · José Gallardo · Raúl García · Sergio Corrieri

Plot It explores the seductive and decadent world of Batista's Cuba and the grinding poverty and oppression of the Cuban people. Through four stories of the revolution, Mikhail Kalatozov takes the...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Nikolai Cherkasov · Serafima Birman · Ludmila Tselikovskaya · Mikhail Nazvanov

Plot In 1547, Ivan IV (1530-1584), archduke of Moscow, crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory. In scenes of his coronation, his wedding to Anastasia, his...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Aleksandr Kaidanovsky · Anatoly Solonitsyn · Nikolai Grinko · Natalya Abramova

Plot The setting is an unnamed country in an unforeseen postapocalyptic future. A meteorite has landed, and its impact has created a mysterious phenomenon known as the Zone, within which resides...

Direction Mikhail Kalatozov

Cast Tatyana Samojlova · Aleksey Batalov · Vasiliy Merkurev · Aleksandr Shvorin

Plot Veronica and Boris are walking in the streets of Moscow and they love each other. Veronica is laughing, cause they are happy together this morning. They see some cranes in...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Margarita Terekhova · Philip Yankovsky · Ignat Daniltsev · Oleg Yankovskiy

Plot Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family....

Direction Elem Klimov

Cast Alexei Kravchenko · Olga Mironova · Liubomiras Laucevicius · Vladas Bagdonas

Plot During WWII, a Belarusian boy is thrust into the atrocities of war, fighting with a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces. Witnessing scenes of abject terror and...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Nikolay Burlyaev · Valentin Zubkov · Yevgeni Zharikov · Stepan Krylov

Plot The film is centered around a 12 year old Russian boy, Ivan, whose parents died at the hands of Germans invading Russia during the Second World War. In striving single-mindedly...

Direction Larisa Shepitko

Cast Boris Plotnikov · Vladimir Gostyukhin · Sergei Yakovlev · Lyudmila Polyakova

Plot Set in WWII, it tells the story of two Soviet partisans who break from their squad to find food for the civilians they are escorting to the next safe encampment....

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Vassilli Nikandrov · Boris Livanov · Eduard Tissé · Nikolai Podvoisky

Plot In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace...

Direction Tatyana Lioznova

Cast Vyacheslav Tikhonov · Leonid Bronevoy · Evgeni Evstigneev · Mikhail Zharkovsky

Plot TV miniseries (1973). 12 episodes. The series is based on the story of a Russian spy Colonel Isaev (Stirlitz) in Fascist Germany during 17 days in the very end of...

Direction Mark Donskoy

Cast Vera Donskaya · Ivan Tverdokhleb · Pavel Shpringfeld · Paladi Belokon

Direction Grigori Kozintsev · Iosif Shapiro

Cast Regimantas Adomaitis · Donatas Banionis · Juozas Budraitis · Oleg Dal

Plot This is a Russian, black-and-white production of the great Shakespearean classic, starring Juri Jarvet. Long-considered one of the greatest and most wrenching tragedies in world literature, King Lear shows that...

Direction Mikhail Romm

Cast Mikhail Romm

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Maksim Shtraukh · Grigori Aleksandrov · Mikhail Gomorov · Ivan Klyukvin

Plot In Russia's factory region during Czarist rule, there's restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents. When a worker hangs himself after being falsely accused...