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Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.

In a post-apocalyptic world, in which a large part of the population consists of demented and deformed mutants being kept in reservations, a man embarks upon visiting the ruins of a museum buried under the sea which can only be accessed during low tide.

Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.

In the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.

A loving film tribute to Russian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko, who died tragically in a car accident in 1979 at the age of 40. This documentary by her husband, Elem Klimov, includes excerpts from all of Shepitko's films, and her own voice is heard talking about her life and art.

Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.

A documentary about the rise and fall of fascism and the effects of Nazism on German society.

Several romance stories - part funny, part sadly - set in a remote logging camp.

Plumbum in translation from Latin means lead - it is Ruslan Chutko's nickname who decided to become a "sanitary assistant of society." But while being taken away by his role of fighting against evil, he goes beyond the limits of child's game and mercilessly intrudes into other people's fates. This film is a sharp detective story dealing with deep and actual moral problem...

A female creature created in space tries to live on earth and has special (and sometimes dangerous) powers.

The young dentist Chesnokov has a knack for painlessly removing teeth, much to the dismay of other dentists, who fear unemployment and start to challenge Chesnokov.

Alisa Freyndlikh and Andrey Podoshian star in this enchanting retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale. When a handsome prince tries to find his princess bride, he searches high and low, only to discover love at his doorstep.

In a surreal puzzler, this story of a fantasy lived by a disparate group of men captures the visual imagination with its images and leaves a large question mark in the meantime. A rare astronomical phenomenon - the parade of planets - has a peculiar effect on several of the men.

The miner decides to raise the three children of the woman he loved. A poignant Soviet drama about real men.

Inspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Sokurov's Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma's decline and fall, including affairs with an aristocratic and a student. Focusing on passion from a woman's perspective and downplaying plot, Sokurov explores his subject in exquisite detail, capturing not only the heat of passion but also the quiet moments before and after and the innocent sensuousness of the body. ( Original Title - Spasi i sokhrani)

To the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting an armored vehicle at the same time he's trying to impress his superior Soviet officers who put him under extreme pressures, one after the other, fighting the German forces occupying Ukraine during World War II. Here's the story of an impressionable man who learns in the hard way that being a leader is more than just using of his commanding voice to get what he wants.

The elderly Alexey Borisovich arrives in Moscow to visit his daughter. He discovers that she is away on a business trip. Alexey has to spend time with his son-in-law, Vladimir Shvyrkov, until she returns.

The movie fairy tale about the epic Russian hero Vasily Buslayev - the son of the Novgorod governor.

Hairdresser Alexey Ivanovich Tyuturin constantly gets into fantastic situations on the way to work. His colleagues consider him a dreamer and a liar, but everything that happens with Alexey Ivanovich is true.

Soldier Pleshcheev returned from the war blind. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness. Thus tormenting his wife and teenage son. The wife cannot stand it, and the son stays with his father at a difficult moment - this is how they live together until Pleshchev's old friend returns from the army.

Detective Kostenko is trying to find a group of criminals responsible for killing a policeman.

After successfully completing his last mission, Soviet spy Mikhail Tulyev returns to the West for one last mission.