Based on the play “A Dowerless Girl” by the prominent 19th-century Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky. The beautiful Larissa Ogudalova, daughter of an impoverished, widowed noblewoman, living in a small town on the Volga, is madly in love with Sergei Sergeyevich Paratov. He reciprocates the girls feelings as long as it suits his purposes. Paratov keeps secret his engagement to another girl and just passes time with Larissa. At the climactic moment, when the girl is expecting him to explain himself, he leaves town to go inspect his estate. At the same time, Larissa is being proposed to by Karandyshev, whom she despises. Starring as Paratov is the famous actor and director Nikita Mikhalkov. The film is enriched with a lot of beautiful music, with romances which had been written expressly for this motion picture and became very popular after the release of the film.

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During World War II, life expectantcy for Allied airmen was abyssmal. This film tells the story fromthe Russian perspective.

The film is based on short stories by Russian writer Yuri Guerman. The year of 1944. The Second World War. A marine air force regiment is stationed at a small airfield. For the pilots, this is both the front and the rear. They live here with their families, leading a seemingly normal life, giving small parties and even attending concerts of touring artistes. And yet, any operational flight may prove to be the last one in their life… The film incorporates the unique wartime documentaries, which were filmed, on the one side, by the British, and on the other side - by the German camera men. This work was done at a time when the German bombers attacked the British caravan of freight ships sailing due Murmansk under the Lend-Lease Act. On the British part, the filming was done by a camera man sailing on board of one of the attacked ships. On the German part, there was a camera operator flying with the pilot of one of the bombers… Dedicated to the pilots of the Red Banner Northern Fleet. (Google)

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Lilja is 16 years old. Her only friend is the young boy Volodja. They live in a poor village in Estonia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej. He is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life

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Commonly recognized as the first Russian western, this movie is set in an unnamed Central Asian republic at the end of the civil war. Sukhov, a sturdy but caring soldier of the Red Army is returning home to his beloved wife, but is drawn into a stand-off with a local gang headed by cruel war chief Abdullah. Sukhov is to watch over Abdullah’s nine wives, whom the bandit abandoned while fleeing from hunting troops. But eventually the lonely hero has to fight the whole gang, as Abdullah re-appears in the town.

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A little grasshopper tries to discover the meaning of life. Belarus, 1996, beautiful film using powder animation. If you’ve ever walked in a dark forest, you probably know the feeling.

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The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is going to see her fiance - a soldier of the Russian army. Erast also knows that there is a spy somewhere in the Russian army, everyone is under suspicion

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Tomorrow Was the War (English subtitles). Part 1 of 9.

Tomorrow Was the War / Zavtra byla voyna

Based upon the title story by the classic of the national literature Boris Vasilyev (The Dawns Here Are Quiet, Officers), this film recreates with an amazing authenticity the atmosphere of the 1930s-1940s Soviet Union, which stirs at once the feelings of admiration and horror, and, thus, mesmerizes and enticesThe year is 1940. A small provincial town. A 9-year schoolgirl, Vika Lyuberetskaya, recites poems by the banned poet Sergey Yesenin. Soon her father is arrested as an enemy of the people. The girl gets hunted at school after that, and she commits suicide. And tomorrow the war starts and almost all of yesterdays schoolchildren are to die in its fire Somebody was burned in a tank, somebody was hanged for participation in resistance, somebody became an ace pilot. It is a great movie, see it if you have an opportunity…
May be you would learn something you did not know about people from the USSR and about this period of history.
The films soundtrack includes music of the 1930s and works by Antonio Vivaldi (Thanks to Boris in Pushkino)

Tomorrow Was the War / Zavtra byla voyna

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