Movies: Soviet union

  • 2025
    Sex in the Soviet Union

    Sex in the Soviet Union (2025)

    Sex in the Soviet Union

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    A gripping journey through seven decades of sexual ignorance, oppression, and suffering, brought to life through the words and experiences of the first Soviet sexologist. Ukrainian survivors of the regime courageously recount the harsh realities they...

    Sex in the Soviet Union
  • 1974
    Because I Love

    Because I Love (1974)

    Because I Love

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    Fighter pilot Nikolai Muravyov is experiencing a personal drama: his wife and son left for the mainland - they are tired of life beyond the Arctic Circle. Colonel Belyy, thinking that his wife will return to her husband if he serves on the mainland, ...

    Because I Love
  • 1965
    Clean Ponds

    Clean Ponds (1965)

    Clean Ponds

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    A poetic biography of a generation of young pre-war and wartime people, based on the works of Yuri Nagibin. Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is ...

    Clean Ponds
  • 1991
    Children of Chernobyl

    Children of Chernobyl (1991)

    Children of Chernobyl

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    Mothers and doctors speak out about the grim reality of life in the five years following the Chernobyl disaster. In children, doctors witnessed a massive increase of recurrent infections, baldness, as well as leukaemia and other cancers....

    Children of Chernobyl
  • 1963
    Penalty Kick

    Penalty Kick (1963)

    Penalty Kick

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    A crafty swindler, appointed to be a coach of an amateur sports team, came up with a cheat plan for victory - secretly recruit a number of professional players to his team....

    Penalty Kick
  • 1928
    Desire Under the Elms

    Desire Under the Elms (1928)

    Desire Under the Elms

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    An adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play Desire Under the Elms....

    Desire Under the Elms
  • 1966
    Ballad of Khevsureti

    Ballad of Khevsureti (1966)

    Ballad of Khevsureti

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    When Imeda’s father is killed in a blood revenge accident, the family moves him to the city where he is sheltered at his father’s friend. After fifteen year he gets back to Khevsureti. A talented painter, he spends most of his time doing sketches of ...

    Ballad of Khevsureti
  • 1969
    Go West!

    Go West! (1969)

    Go West!

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    1976: In order to leave the Soviet Union, the Mishkins undergo a "marriage of convenience" with their Jewish neighbors. But the trick only works at the beginning....

    Go West!
  • 1987
    The Spy

    The Spy (1987)

    The Spy

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    1916: on the verge of being evicted from his apartment, unable to find a job, with a desperate wife and a sick child, a man wrestles with his conscience about whether to turn police informer for money....

    The Spy
  • 2011
    Stalin's Last Plot

    Stalin's Last Plot (2011)

    Stalin's Last Plot

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    January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged wit...

    Stalin's Last Plot
  • 2013
    Forward, Comrades

    Forward, Comrades (2013)

    Forward, Comrades

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    A young girl who treated her pets as comrades and liked to play with construction blocks, experiences her life changing after the dissolution of the Soviet Union....

    Forward, Comrades
  • 1931
    Golden Mountains

    Golden Mountains (1931)

    Golden Mountains

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    Soviet "proletarian" film about anti-war strike at St Petersburg factory, 1914. Resembles Pudovkin's classic "End of St. Petersburg," made 4 years earlier: backward lad (Poslavsky) from poor village comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as rep...

    Golden Mountains
  • 1937
    Tsar to Lenin

    Tsar to Lenin (1937)

    Tsar to Lenin

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    A documentary film account of the Russian Revolution, based on archival footage....

    Tsar to Lenin
  • 1980
    The Mulberry Tree

    The Mulberry Tree (1980)

    The Mulberry Tree

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    In their first collaboration Melkonian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov film two neighbour families that both claim ownership of a huge mulberry tree growing in the middle of their two houses....

    The Mulberry Tree
  • 2011
    The Desert of Forbidden Art

    The Desert of Forbidden Art (2011)

    The Desert of Forbidden Art

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    How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags. Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art but instead...

    The Desert of Forbidden Art
  • 1962
    Tjvjik

    Tjvjik (1962)

    Tjvjik

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    Rich Nikoghos-agha buys some beef liver for Nerses-akhpar's family. Although months have passed, Nikoghos-agha does not hesitate to remind his "charity" to Nerses-akhpar every time they met....

    Tjvjik
  • 1951
    Bountiful Summer

    Bountiful Summer (1951)

    Bountiful Summer

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    The war is over. The Red Army soldier Pyotr tries to find himself in a peaceful life. He takes the place of an accountant, and long-time friend Nazar, who has already grown to the post of the head of a collective farm, helps him in this. Together the...

    Bountiful Summer
  • 2018
    The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People

    The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People (2018)

    The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People

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    The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an agronomist who made great promises and fake inventions. Each of them tried to solve the country's nutrition...

    The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People
  • 1967
    The Seventh Companion

    The Seventh Companion (1967)

    The Seventh Companion

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    A portrait of the era of "Red Terror" during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik revolution, The Seventh Companion offers a character study in General Adamov (Andrei Popov), a law professor in the tsarist army, who is incarcerated by the Bolshe...

    The Seventh Companion
  • 2019
    1944. Deportation

    1944. Deportation (2019)

    1944. Deportation

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    In 1944 Crimean Tatars has suffered a long road in exile. It was accompanied by famine, illness and loss. In the first years of exile, almost half of deported Crimean Tatars died. But those, who survived, dreamed of only one thing - to return to Crim...

    1944. Deportation