Movies

A young teacher is sent to a remote province, separating her from her lover, and sets about the difficult task of building a school there.

In 1931 Shostakovich wrote a full-length score for the Leningrad Music Hall, for a show that involved many of the leading entertainers of the day, as...

A biography drama about Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.

Information about the upcoming coup d'etat falls into the hands of a TV reporter. At his own risk, he begins an investigation...

The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, the Bolsheviks and Mensehviks compete for representation of...

An old man reflects on his entire life. How quickly it all goes by.

1945, an attack aviation regiment is based at the field airfield, which is served by a team of young girls. The last days of the war are coming... In...

Experimental filmmaker Rubén Gámez explores the iconography of the maguey plant in Mexican cinematic history.

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio...

A biopic, looking at one of the major leaders of the assassination of Czar Alexander II.

The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the Russian Revolution, Maksim is appointed state commissar in...

Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.

A mostly lost Soviet Union stop-motion version of this classic fairytale. The only surviving scene is called Bazaar.

During harvest festival at a collective farm, a visiting dance troupe reunites a ballerina with her childhood friend Zina. In order to teach her...

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run...

In the 1920’s, The Golden Age cabaret is a favorite nightly haunt. The young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita. He follows her to the...

A mouse sings a lullaby to her baby, but he falls asleep, so she ask for help to her neighbors.

A young burglar gets more that he bargained for when a robs a house...

A picturesque sketch of flowers.