When the king of Denmark dies suddenly, his son, crown prince Hamlet, returns home to find that his uncle Claudius has usurped the throne and married Hamlet’s recently widowed mother. Then, one night, Hamlet is visited by his father’ Year 1964.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Grigoriy Kozintsev |
| Writer: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Boris Pasternak, William Shakespeare |
| Actors: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina |
While recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio. Year 1971.
| Generes: Drama, Romance |
| Director: Luchino Visconti |
| Writer: Thomas Mann, Luchino Visconti, Nicola Badalucco |
| Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns |
Four geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. Year 1960.
| Generes: Adventure, Drama |
| Director: Mikhail Kalatozov |
| Writer: Grigoriy Koltunov, Valeri Osipov, Viktor Rozov |
| Actors: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Samoylova, Vasiliy Livanov |
In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel of the same name. Year 1988.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi |
| Director: Vladimir Bortko |
| Writer: Nataliya Bortko (script), Mikhail A. Bulgakov (story) |
| Actors: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov, Roman Kartsev |
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev. Year 1966.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History |
| Director: Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Writer: Andrey Konchalovskiy, Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Actors: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko |
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One buil Year 1979.
| Generes: Drama, History, Romance |
| Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy |
| Writer: Valentin Ezhov, Andrey Konchalovskiy |
| Actors: Nikita Mikhalkov, Vitali Solomin, Sergey Shakurov |
The men go hunting. Russian men. Year 1995.
| Generes: Comedy |
| Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin |
| Writer: Aleksandr Rogozhkin |
| Actors: Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov, Sergey Russkin |
An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII. Year 1970.
| Generes: Drama, War |
| Director: Vittorio De Sica |
| Writer: Tonino Guerra, Cesare Zavattini, Giorgi Mdivani |
| Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva |
Little Fedor brings a cat to home despite his mother’s distaste for cats. He runs away with his talking cat, to make more friends on the way. Year 1978.
| Generes: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family |
| Director: Vladimir Popov |
| Writer: Eduard Uspenskiy (screenplay) |
| Actors: Oleg Tabakov, Valentina Talyzina, Mariya Vinogradova, Boris Novikov |
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation. Year 1975.
| Generes: Biography, Drama |
| Director: Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Writer: Aleksandr Misharin, Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Actors: Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovskiy, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev |
An old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Year 1999.
| Generes: Animation, Short, Adventure, Drama |
| Director: Aleksandr Petrov |
| Writer: Ernest Hemingway (based on the novel by), Aleksandr Petrov (screenplay adaptation) |
| Actors: Gordon Pinsent, Kevin Duhaney, Yôji Matsuda, Rentarô Mikuni |
At the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader. Year 1970.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War, Western |
| Director: Vladimir Motyl |
| Writer: Valentin Ezhov, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Mark Zakharov (letters) |
| Actors: Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Pavel Luspekayev, Spartak Mishulin, Kakhi Kavsadze |
The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights. Year 1938.
| Generes: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev |
| Writer: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Pyotr Pavlenko |
| Actors: Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov, Dmitriy Orlov |
In the Soviet Union in 1936, shadow of Stalin’s repressions lie on a famous revolution hero. The accusations of being him a foreign spy are nonsense, and all known that, but a slow process of his life’s downfall is already running. Year 1994.
| Generes: Drama, History, War |
| Director: Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Writer: Nikita Mikhalkov (dialogue), Rustam Ibragimbekov (dialogue), Rustam Ibragimbekov (screenplay), Nikita Mikhalkov (screenplay), Nikita Mikhalkov (story) |
| Actors: Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Nadezhda Mikhalkova |
At the start of the 1950s, four student friends live in the suburban dormitory of an art school. They are cheerful, although often hungry, play pranks on each other and many of the other … Year 1995.
| Generes: N/A |
| Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy |
| Writer: Pyotr Todorovskiy |
| Actors: Andrey Ilin, Gennadiy Nazarov, Denis Konstantinov, Gennadi Mitnik |
An incredible story about a man who misplaced the cities and found his love during the one special night – New Year’s celebration. Year 1975.
| Generes: Comedy, Romance |
| Director: N/A |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Liya Akhedzhakova, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Barbara Brylska, Georgiy Burkov |