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- DirectorElem KlimovStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevArina AleynikovaIlya RutbergA satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsYuriy BogatyryovAnatoliy SolonitsynSergey ShakurovSet during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsAndrei BoltnevNina RuslanovaAndrey MironovRussian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsRolan BykovAnatoliy SolonitsynVladimir ZamanskiyA Soviet POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Germans.
- DirectorIrakli KvirikadzeStarsElguja BurduliRuslan MikaberidzeBaadur TsuladzeA family of swimmers distinguish themselves in sport but run into trouble with Stalin's police, in this period portrait of how even the light side of life was poisoned by terror.
- DirectorSergei OvcharovStarsRolan BykovNatalya GundarevaSvetlana KryuchkovaThe bureaucratic epos on dialogues and M.E.Saltykova-Shchedrina's plots, life of the city of Glupov led by petty tyrants - city's mayors.
- DirectorMark ZakharovStarsOleg YankovskiyInna ChurikovaElena KorenevaA man with imagination opposes a society without it. Society forces him to betray his freedom-loving spirit, but imagination is immortal.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsIvan MikolaychukLarisa KadochnikovaTatyana BestayevaA timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsSergo ZakariadzeVakhtang KikabidzeSofiko ChiaureliA young happy-go-lucky village doctor lives a leisurely life as comic events unfold around him.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsVakhtang KikabidzeFrunzik MkrtchyanElena ProklovaLocal Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ensue.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsStanislav LyubshinEvgeniy LeonovYuriy YakovlevTwo Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsAleksandr KalyaginElena SoloveyEvgeniya GlushenkoIn Imperial Russia, the nobility has its own entertainments, disputes and worries.
- DirectorOtar IosselianiStarsGela KandelakiGogi ChkheidzeJansug KakhidzeA carefree young percussionist roams the streets of Tbilisi, interacting with friends and strangers alike, and tries to avoid responsibilities.
- DirectorAndrey KhrzhanovskiyStarsS. MozhaevYuri NorsteinInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyThe second part of a trilogy of films based on Pushkin's drawings, poems and letters.
- DirectorAndrey KhrzhanovskiyStarsSergey YurskiyThe third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.
- DirectorAndrey KhrzhanovskiyStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiySergey YurskiyA film based on drawings and manuscripts by A. S. Pushkin.
- DirectorYuri NorsteinStarsAleksandr KalyaginDistant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.
- DirectorAleksandr ProshkinStarsValeriy PriyomykhovAnatoliy PapanovViktor StepanovFormer political inmates Sergei and Nikolai live as exiles in a remote Siberian village. After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.