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- This film captures a stage production at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, accompanied by the choir of Moscow Synagogue. Brothers Isaak and Borukh are both in love with Sarra, but Sarra chooses Isaac and they got married. However, Sarra could not conceive for ten years, and their Rabbi tells them that according to Jewish law, they must divorce. Isaak's parents push him to sign the divorce paper, then their Rabbi drops the divorce paper to Sarra's feet. She tells Isaac about her grief, and Isaak commits suicide. Soon after-wards, Sore realizes that she is pregnant, but she is now single.
- Documentary film about artist Henri Matisse.
- Anna is torn between her love to Count Vronsky, and her loveless marriage to Mr. Karenin. Based on the book by Leo Tolstoy.
- History of the Russian revolution and the following Civil War.
- Brigada is a group of four friends, who grew up together and formed a most powerful gang in Moscow. Initially they made business together, but an unplanned murder transformed them. Now their lives are at risk and there is no way back.
- Political talk-show in Moscow, Russia.
- Four friends - three dogs and one cat are helping people in search for the stolen money. The bad guy stole the cash and disappeared in the rain. Four animals are so smart - they manage to find the bad guy and the money.
- A young mother with a baby is on a train going back to their Homecountry. The baby has died of unknown causes. Young mother is devastated. She wants the dead baby to be buried in their Homecountry. The Border control poses many problems for her in her journey. Passengers around her are also causing problems. The young mother has to pretend that the baby is alive. In one moving scene the mother has to sing to her dead baby to fool the border officers as well as the nosy passengers.
- Amra is the most beautiful girl in town and her new friend Alou is in love with her. Two other guys are frustrated and jealous. Help comes from Amra's father Khasarman.
- Four friends - three dogs and one cat are having lots of fun together.
- Writer Vitalii Bianki's unusual calendar of events in the forest - "Lesnaya Gazeta" (Forest Newspaper, a collection of stories about wild life ). Stories by Bianki are presented by Pyotr Shelokhonov.
- A forest ranger is again having an adventure with four friends: three dogs and one cat.
- Mr. Laptev is a wealthy intellectual, who falls in love with young Julia. She is not in love, but she uses their marriage to upgrade her life. Laptev suffers without a mutual love, but remains a loving husband. They carry on through the death of their first child, and are rewarded with the birth of a charming daughter. And their marriage, after three years turns into a beautiful romance.
- Peaceful urban life in late 60's Russia is visited by a lone unknown soldier from WWII which revives the collective memories of a restless populous.
- A man is traveling all over the world and making monuments to victims of all wars, because he is unable to find his own son, who was lost in the WWII.
- Demon (1960) is a Russian musical based on the eponymous opera by Anton Rubinstein with lyrics by Mikhail Lermontov. Lermontov's Demon is a long poem in Russian featuring some of the most mellifluous lines in the language. God, in Lermontov's interpretation, is the hardest of all tyrants, who takes control over human thoughts and lives, thus pushing people to more sins. Demon is the only man who can liberate people and wake them up to reality, and guide them to their true feelings. He gives beautiful Princess Tamara his demonic love which celebrates the carnal passions of the "eternal spirit." Demon is played by the brilliant Estonian singer Georg Ots. Lermontov's poem "Demon" was banned from publication for decades, and the Anton Rubinstein's lush opera was also banned by censors who deemed it sacrilegious.
- About the life and adventures of four friends: three dogs and one cat. The owner of the animals, a forest ranger is training three dogs to be friends with one cat.
- An silent comedy about a provincial tailor who won a lottery in the 1925 Soviet Union.
- Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs. A group of Red Army officers are posing as a gang of Batka Knysh to provoke the White Russians before the final blow.
- Soviet film about the Revolution of 1905 in Russia. Machinist Ukhtomsky becomes the leader of railroad workers at Moscow-Kazan railroad. He takes his comrades on the strike in support for the uprising of all workers in Moscow, becoming one of the heroes of the first Russian revolution.
- Set in Russia, in 1920, during the Russian Civil War. Andrei Shagan is a fisherman's son who is recruited by the White Russians to serve in the army of Baron Vrangel fighting against the communist Red Army. He saves the life of a Red Army officer Vlasov by hiding him in his father's house. The White Russians kill Andrei and arrest his father, but his family fights back with a suicide bombing.
- Nuclear war is already going on without a warning.
- Film about a Russian Master of Martial Arts, Andrei Khromov (Rostotsky). Based on a true story. A young man travels all over the Eastern republics of the Soviet Union. He is studying various systems of self-defense in order to develop his own system that would make him unbeatable.
- Schoolboy Maksim meets an extra-terrestrial boy named Gum Gam. He came from the Blue Planet, where children are playing with toys instead of going to school. Gum Gam's mission is to deliver toys for the children of Earth.
- Important file is stolen from archives. The thief and the archive clerk are both found dead. Colonel Kornilov comes to conclusion that the crime is a result of the degrading social environment in the rapidly changing Soviet Union.
- Dog's happiness is at it's highest, when this poodle named "Malysh" is together with his best friend Andryusha (played by Dima Mosolov).
- A Russian town is terrorized by a monstrous vampire, named Upyr. Upyr turns everyone into a slave, then kills. Even the Russian Mafia boss is killed, and others are in fear, because Upyr cannot be killed by a bullet. Only one fearless man brings hope to people. He sets up a trap for Upyr, by using the Mafia boss's daughter as bait.
- As the Nazi forces advance on Moscow, village woman, after witnessing her husband killed in combat, her toddler run over by a German tank, and her village commandeered by Nazi forces, organizes the surviving locals into a guerilla band bent on revenge.
- A dog survives a bad master and finds a good one.
- This is a Bolshoi Ballet version of Anna Karenina. Anna and a younger Vronsky are expressing their love through dance.
- A spy is detected and followed in Leningrad.
- A spaceship from Earth is trapped on the unknown planet. Based on book "Tumannost Andromedy" by Ivan Efremov.
- Transatlantic flight 713 is in trouble because the pilot and crew are poisoned while flying above the ocean. Now the passengers have to take control to save their lives.
- Nina Petrovna is a Russian beauty claimed by two Austrian officers.
- Soviet propaganda film set in Russia under the Tsar, just before the February Revolution of 1917. A Bolshevik Communist, politician Kirill Astakhov, is transfered from a regular prison to a severe Siberian location, because he attempted a violent revolution. He is guarded by a pro-Tsar policeman, Stepan Filimonov, who hates communists as the worst of all political prisoners.
- A small Russian town is prospering, because it's main industry is the chocolate factory. But this kind of prosperity comes at a very high price. Everybody in this town is eating plenty of chocolate, and everyone is suffering from diabetes. There is a thick smell of chocolate in the air, and the local river has brown water, that is filthy with chocolate pollution. So people decided to put an end to their suffering and to shut the chocolate factory down. But the chocolate business is so lucrative, that the factory is expanding, and rapidly increasing the production of chocolate. Conscious citizens are terrified, and an anti-chocolate riot is brewing.
- About three Russian pilots falling in love during the WWII.
- Comedy about brothers Vesnushkin, Sasha and Vasya, who are playing for one team in a National Soccer Competition. However, Sasha falls in love with a beautiful girl and loses his confidence just before the final game, so his brother has to take the lead on the field in order to save the game.
- During World War II there were soldiers who treated the other side like humans.
- Biopic film about Marshall Georgi Zhukov, the legendary hero of the First World War, then the authoritative commander of the Red Army during World War II, then the Soviet Defence Minister under Nikita Khrushchev. He is portrayed by actor-narrator Mikhail Ulyanov, who has a striking facial resemblance with Zhukov.
- Zhuravushka (aka...A little crane) is based on a story form the novel "Khleb - imya sushchestvitelnoe" by Mikhail Alekseev. Marfa (Chursina) is a widow of a Russian soldier, living in a village in central Russia. She is a single mother, raising a son in the times of hardship. She is very beautiful, but she does not marry anyone, because she is devoted to making her only son happy. And now her son is getting married.
- Film is based on the eponymous book by V. Livanov. About a boy, who is adopted by the divorced man.
- Relatives are anticipating the death of a wealthy trader Mr. Pazukhin. Relatives are fighting for inheritance, playing games in attempts to manipulate Mr. Pazukhin's will. His daughter's husband is extremely crafty. But Mr. Pazukhin's son Prokofi is playing a submissive pleaser. Mr. Pazukhin leaves all his wealth to his submissive son, who suddenly becomes powerful and vengeful to others.
- A comedy about tigers and lions running around a cruise ship full of passengers.
- Dervenskiy detektiv (1968) (aka...Rural detective) is based on the eponymous book by Vil Lipatov. About the detective Aniskin, who lives in the village, where everyone likes him.
- A sarcastic comedy about the Imperial Russian bureaucracy, based on the eponymous novella by Yuri Tynyanov. Set in the reign of Emperor Paul I. A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words for "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) Lieutenant Kizhe. His courtiers are at first too frightened to contradict the Tsar, but then the fiction turns out to be all too convenient for them. So Lieutenant Kizhe gets himself exiled to Siberia, recalled from exile, promoted, and married. He dies and receives a state funeral. In many ways, he is the most charming and lovable character in the film, even though he remains throughout the film a "confidential person, without a shape".
- A film-in-film story of a star actress Julia Martynova (Sayko), who is suddenly hospitalized with terminal illness in the middle of a film production. She makes trips from hospital to studio for voice-over (dubbing) for her character. But the illness brought dramatic changes to her personality and voice, and she finds herself becoming a different person from who she was at the beginning of filming. Crew members are helping her in every possible way, and her voice brings a new dimension to the film.
- Soviet film about the role of Frunze and Furmanov in suppression of the 1928 uprising in Fergana.
- About the mysterious death of the Russian Emperor Aleksandr I, and his alleged escape from the public life.
- Two young ladies are competing in a canoe race and the more experienced girl always wins. But with the help of coaches the weaker girl makes spectacular progress and wins the competition.