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After a man kills two members of his Yukon gold prospecting team, the other two surviving members struggle to keep him subdued for the next several months until they can turn him over to the law.
The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what role a creative person played in society.
Two six-graders are trying to find the Stalin's pipe and return it to the owner.
An ignorant and prejudiced American’s visit of Soviet Russia goes off the rails after his luggage is stolen and he is separated from his bodyguard.
Khokhlova, a girl-reporter on a Moscow newpaper, falls in love with factory manager Petrovsky. To her he's the epitome of manliness--virile, decisive, strong-minded. Conversely, she rejects the sensitive, diffident editor Vasilchikov, who's in love with her, as unmanly. Her infatuation affects her work, and she is fired.
In a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a "death ray" to fight back. (A part of the movie is lost.)
In an unnamed English-speaking capitalist land, a young engineer invents inexhaustible giant robots to replace the fragile human workers on high-volume assembly-lines, and soon finds his invention co-opted by the military-industrial complex.
A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan.
The film is about Russian silent movie star Alexandra Khokhlova. She was the first Soviet blacklisted actress. In her 90es, Khokhlova acts in this extraordinary documentary: she acts herself. Film critics recognised her appearance here as the last and brilliant role of great actress.
Andrei Latonin had jumped with a parachute many times before, but on the day of the holiday he got scared and stayed in the cockpit of the plane. Deeply upset by his failure, Latonin decides to leave his homeland forever and joins a steamship as a sailor. On the way, Andrei meets an expedition group heading for the crater of an active volcano and joins the scientists.
A Russian woman tells the tragic story of her life.
A story about two teenagers and their life during WWII in Urals district of Russia.
The continuation of a story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the years before WWII - now during the war.