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- A documentary film about the agricultural development in the region of Gorky: the everyday life in a sovkhoz, the building of a reservoir and of a greenhouse.
- Promotional film of GAZ 'Gorky Automobile Plant' vehicles. Thesis project of Alexander Sokurov, then a graduate of VGIK 'The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography'.
- In the 20's an enthusiast radio amateur, Fyodor Lbov, experiments one of the first short-waves radio in the city of Gorky.
- The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many archives, at one time censored by the Soviet government. A brief take on his life, from his transition as an early prodigy to a first rate artist, his celebrated compositions and the final years with a declining health.
- Nikita, haunted by the civil war, meets Luba, who is as deeply moral and lonely as he is.
- Family and friends gather in a decadent house to party. Despite their delusive distinction a raw passion for sex and violence comes to light.
- Russian singer Fyodor Chaliapin is interred in a Moscow cemetery, and his 3 daughters visit his Leningrad house, after which the film shows us the old USSR the artist abandoned in 1922, some say betrayed, to seek a better life in Paris.
- Interesting short documentary on young athletes in a Soviet ice skating program, some of whom are barely past toddler age. Kinetic and up close, the doc focuses on movement with music, eschewing interview and conversation, and mostly submerging political and social commentary.
- The manifestation and fireworks on the 1st of May, one of the ritual celebrations of Soviet times, as a gathering of tired participants of a mass scene falling into pieces without the director's orders and without any aims.
- 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 two part story of a collective farm worker named Maria which chronicles her life at the time of the initial filming and then returns to her story 9 years later.
- One of 5 early documentaries Sokurov made that were suppressed: Musical montage and newsreel footage are manipulated to show WWII's allied leaders, not just to commemorate them 4 decades later but to interrogate the nature of authority.
- A montage assembly film about the work of the director of the film studio "Lenfilm" Dinara Asanova, who passed suddenly at only 42 in 1985.
- 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)
- Weaves together a bank of images from German and Soviet archive footage, drawing out a psychological dimension from the historical landscape at the end of World War II.
- A film in homage to Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. It concentrates on his absence from the Soviet Union and what he left behind. There are episodes of his funeral and places he lived in Moscow.
- A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.