Soviet Union Movies

Being such an amazingly honest, straightforward person like Zina unfortunately means making your life very difficult. But what can you do—it's...

Documentary on the USSR

In Soviet Azerbaijan, a divorced Armenian couple fights over the custody of their daughter, Ashen. Stolen from one parent to another, Ashen's...

A young and ambitious engineer comes into conflict with old-fashioned structures that don't acknowledge his honesty.

A heartbreaking story about the tragic love between a young soloist named Andrey Dymov and an equally young, but more experienced "Priestess of...

Special care has been taken by International Historic Films to assemble this monumental documentary, which tells the story of what is left for a...

The film is based on the story of Anatoly Kurchatkin "House of Women". A tragicomedy about four women of three generations who lives in a tiny...

The Red Arrow is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Valeriy...

Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants.

The film is about the life and work of Grigory Ordzhonikidze Konstantinoviche, an important personality in both the Communist Party and the Soviet...

A gripping journey through seven decades of sexual ignorance, oppression, and suffering, brought to life through the words and experiences of the...

This film discusses conditions in the Soviet Union, including party activity and influence, the shortage of consumer goods, the roles of children and...

Through unique and candid interviews the film tells the compelling and tragic stories of the six women – last survivors of the Gulag, the...

Documentary film about the first St. Petersburg music club TaMtAm. It existed since 1991 upon 1996 and was held by Vsevolod Gakkel, ex-cellist of...

Three friends meet in a central cheerful pastime. After strolling along the boulevards, they are in nature. The dark side of the forest reveals the...

Military people call such places "FRONTLINE", liquidators who worked at the Chernobyl nuclear station called it "ROOF COATING". It was the most...

A kolkhoz machine-operator is a local inventor who has tensions with his wife over his hobby. He invents a useful appendage for a grain harvester...

Based on an excerpt from the novel by L.N.Tolstoy "War and Peace." The war of 1812. The defeated Napoleonic army is retreating. Three Russian...

Albert Maysles' visual diary of the faces and places encountered along a cross country motorscooter ride through the Soviet Union in the late 1950s.