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A growing list of much-loved Soviet Era Classic Cinema, including films from Soviet Socialist Republics & Russian films with Eng. subs in My DVD Collection
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- DirectorGleb PanfilovStarsInna ChurikovaNikolay GubenkoEkaterina VolkovaWhen Yelizaveta Uvarova becomes a mayor of a small town, she puts her heart and soul into building a bridge there. Yet soon politics will have to make way for her family life as her son suddenly dies.
- DirectorYuri NorsteinStarsVyacheslav NevinnyyMariya VinogradovaAleksey BatalovA little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect.
- DirectorBoris BarnetStarsVasiliy MerkurevYekaterina MazurovaNadezhda RumyantsevaAn academician spends his vacation not at a resort, but in a remote village. However, he did not manage to practice painting as he planned. He got involved in the villagers' life.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsSergei LukyanovMarina LadyninaAleksandr KhvylyaIn the steppes of the Kuban love is born on two collective farms while wheat is (enthusiastically) gathered. Galina, the energetic chairwoman of one of the two kolkhozes, vies with her male counterpart for the best harvest. At the same time Gordey, her rival, a former soldier, is (and has been for ages) in love with her. On her part, Dasha a collective farm worker, has heartbeat for a young technician of the competing kolkhoz...
- DirectorYuliya SolntsevaStarsBoris LivanovBoris AndreyevMikhail TsaryovInterconnected stories of Soviet citizens trying to build a new future after World War II. Memories of the old, dreams of the young, and the residues of class mingle and clash.
- DirectorYuliy GusmanStarsMukhtar-bek KantemirovPolad BülbüloghluLev DurovThe story developed during XX century in Russian empire, Azerbaijan. Two circus actors Rustam and his friend San Sanich travel to a village where Rustam was born after long years of absence, to burry his aunt. After burring his aunt, friends decide to stay in her house for couple of days. A local wealthy inhabitant of the village Farzali bek, is looking for oil, and finds out that the land which now officially owned by Rustam might have some oil repositories. He learns that Rustam is back and wants to take him out, to put his hands on valuable land. A young theater singer Tejmur is in love with Farzali bek's beautiful daughter, Telli, but has nothing to offer to marry her. Yet he decides to speak with her father. While planning to "sell" his daughter to one of other wealthy bek's son, Farzali bek still promises that if Tejmur will kill Rustam, he will let Telli marry him. Rustam and his friend San Sanich defend Tejmur, but after talking to him become friends. They decide to help Tejmur to steal Telli during her wedding. All three of them succeed to steal Telli, but San Sanich is jailed in the result. Other three are able to run away and hide for some time. Farzali bek pays a well known bandit Jafar to kill three friends and haunt back Telli. Eventually, Rustam, Telli and Tejmur are trapped in a tower and under a risk of being burned down alive. Jafar is partial to Tejmur's beautiful voice and therefore, asks him to sing one last time. Meanwhile, San Sanich is escaped from jail, and helps his friends to defend Jafar.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsAlla BudnitskayaEldar RyazanovLyudmila TsvetkovaMeeting of the garage cooperative must exclude four own members because of a new highway's building. After the meeting it becomes clear that the exit door is closed by one of the members, who requires an equitable solution.
- DirectorBoris BarnetStarsNatalya OvodovaIrina ZarubinaVasiliy ShukshinSet in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alenka Muratova (Ovodova) is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovich, the chief mechanic for the Soviet, into giving up his seat in the truck to a young mother with her infant daughter. Then Alenka and Dmitry share the back of the open truck with a young woman, newly graduated dentist who has not been able to find a position, Stefan, a hitchhiker with a dog who hopes his upper-class wife will return to him and the countryside, and Vasselina Petrovolka, a woman who lost one of her twin daughters in a riding accident by the river shortly after they arrived, and now is returning to tell the other twin of her sister's fate. A warm hearted look at common folks traveling in the frontier.
- DirectorSavva KulishStarsDonatas BanionisRolan BykovSergei KurilovSoviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works a former German war criminal, Dr. Hass, who is finishing the creation of a deadly chemical gas RH development that he began during World War II, experimenting on POWs. Since Ladeynikov doesn't know Dr. Hass's appearance, Soviet intelligence recruits an actor, Ivan Savushkin, who, during the war, escaped from a prison camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together, they must identify and stop him before he finishes and unleashes his weapon of mass destruction.
- DirectorMarlen KhutsievFeliks MironerStarsNina IvanovaNikolay RybnikovVladimir GulyaevA newly appointed Russian literature teacher develops a strong connection with one of her flagging students.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsLeonid KuravlyovEvgeniya SimonovaEvgeniy LeonovA carefree plumber spends his days drinking and chasing women, but the emptiness of his life starts catching up to him.
- DirectorAleksandr AlovVladimir NaumovStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevViktor SergachyovGeorgiy GeorgiuA high ranking official in St. Petersburg accidentally attends a wedding of one of his subordinates, embarrassing himself and the entire wedding party. Based on a novel by F. M. Dostoyevsky.
- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsVyacheslav TikhonovIrina PechernikovaNina MenshikovaA school teacher faces a moral crisis.
- DirectorLev KulidzhanovYakov SegelStarsValentina TeleginaNikolai YelizarovVladimir ZemlyanikinA film about war from the point of view of those left behind.
- DirectorViktor IvanovStarsOleg BorisovMargarita KrinitsynaNikolay YakovchenkoMadcap comedy set in early 20th century Kyiv about a barber whose fondness for drink, gambling, and women lead to bankruptcy. He marries an ugly rich woman to solve his financial woes, but pines for a virtuous beauty who despises him.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsAleksey BatalovInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyTatyana LavrovaNuclear physicists are risking their lives for scientific achievements.
- DirectorAleksandr SeryyStarsEvgeniy LeonovGeorgiy VitsinSaveliy KramarovIt so happens that peaceful kindergarten teacher is incredibly similar to the terrible villain who stole the helmet of Alexander the Great. And villain's accomplices are unexpectedly similar to children - they also need love and care.
- DirectorSamson SamsonovStarsIgor SavkinMargarita VolodinaVladimir KenigsonA group of train passengers are thrown together an actor A doctor young women and a Bolshivic commander trying to Get to the city. They have to run the gauntlet of the White Russians Who have cut off most of the roads.
- DirectorEvgeniy TashkovStarsAnatoliy PapanovEkaterina SavinovaBoris BibikovYoung girl from the country come to Moscow, she wants to get into University, but it's too late. Anyway, she won't give up and will do everything to get a meeting with dean and sing for him.
- DirectorMikhail ShvejtserStarsNikolay RybnikovNonna MordyukovaNikolay SergeevA conflict flares up between the Komsomol member, the advanced collective farmer Fyodor and the parents of his young wife, ardent opponents of collective farm life.
- DirectorVladimir MotylStarsAnatoliy KuznetsovPavel LuspekayevSpartak MishulinAt the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsDmitri MilyutenkoLarisa KadochnikovaFeodosiya LitvinenkoThe old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs.
- DirectorEldar RyazanovStarsIgor IlyinskyLyudmila GurchenkoYuri BelovA new chief of a "Culture House" is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert.
- DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsIzolda IzvitskayaOleg StrizhenovNikolay KryuchkovAn unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
- DirectorLev KulidzhanovStarsVera KuznetsovaLyudmila MarchenkoValentin ZubkovAfter being adopted by a doctor, war orphan Tanya learns her mother is still alive and seeks her out. When neither family is the right fit, Tanya comes into her own while living and working on a collective farm.