Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 4

Volume 4 (1986-1991): "Door", "Boy Is a Boy", "Liberated Don Quixote", "Martinko", "Big Underground Ball", "Cat and Clown", "Dream", "Kele", "Alter Ego", "Girlfriend", "Croak x Croak", "Cat and Company".

The Fake Russian Prophet

In the interior of a small Russian cottage dwells a peasant with the reputation of being able to foretell future events. Alternatively, a Japanese soldier and a Russian General visit him and ask him about the outcome of

My Friend Sasha: A Very Russian Murder

For three years before his death from poisoning, former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko had been making a documentary with his friend Andrei Nekrasov about authoritarianism in post-communist Russia. Here is that film, the

Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 2

Volume 2 (1969-1978): "Ballerina on the Boat", "Seasons", "Armoire", "The Battle of Kerzhenets", "Butterfly", "Island", "Fox and Rabbit", "The Heron and the Crane", "Hedgehog in the Fog", "Crane's Feathers", "Firing Rang

Russian Shorts. Vol. 3

Exactly five stories from different parts of Russia - from Arkhangelsk to Sakhalin. The modern romantic comedy "Firefly" was filmed in Severodvinsk. The musical film “Not for the River” from Arkhangelsk is dedicated to t

The Rise and Fall of the Russian Oligarchs

Freed from the shackles of communism in the 1990s, Russia seemed to be entering an era of rebirth. But as is often the case in that country, history unfolded harshly. For the majority of Russians, the transition to a mar

We, The Russian People

January 1917. The workers and peasants of Russia, hunted by the tsarist government in the trenches, forced to defend alien interests of the king, the landowners and exploiters-capitalists. Bolshevik worker Yakov Orel, se

Doctor Zhivago: The Making of a Russian Epic

Omar Sharif narrates and others discuss the making of Doctor Zhivago.

George Jessel and His Russian Art Choir

Veteran vaudevillian regales the audience with highlights from his comedy travel monologue and introduces "His Modern Art Choir," A Russian group he met while traveling in the Soviet Union who sing a traditional Russian

Russian Guests

The writer V. Astafyev, as well as emigrants who came to their homeland as guests of the Orthodox Youth Congress, which took place in the village of Kolyvan in the Novosibirsk region, reflect on the fate of Russia.

Georgy Zhzhenov. Russian Cross.

Three parts of the cycle - three films: "Never Say Never", "Fraer of Muddy Water", "The Last Mohicans". Zhzhenov's activity in cinema began before the age of 22. Then there was an arrest with interrogations and prisons,

A Word About a Russian Mother

The film is about Epistinia Fyodorovna Stepanova, a mother whose eight sons were killed during World War II.

Beastly Robberies. Russian Museum

I, A Russian Soldier

Physiology of Russian life

Russia. Character and path. A bitter experience of self-discovery. The theory of the Russian physiologist I.P. Pavlov as the key to understanding Russian history. And Russian history as the key to understanding Pavlov's

Waldbühne 2009 | Russian Rhythms

Every year, the Berliner Philharmoniker hold a kind of classical-music fête with a bright, cheerful concert to end the season. In 2009 about 22,000 people had come together at the Berlin Waldbühne to enjoy the traditiona

Skirmish Between Russian and Japanese Advance Guards

Renactment of a skirmish that was likely to have occurred in the Russo-Japanese War. Opens with an establishing scene entitled "A Japanese outpost on the Yalu River," which shows the Japanese soldiers of the infantry out

Atlantis of the Russian North

The film tells about the Russian North - the territory of unique wooden architecture and one of the few places in the country where a Russian person can realize the origins of his culture and spiritual development. It wa

Combat in the Air - Russian Air Power

Russian Air Force 100th Anniversary Airshow

100th Anniversary Airshow Russian Air Force Zhukovsky 2012 The Russian Air Force celebrated its 100th Anniversary at Zhukovsky near Moscow with the best air show that PlanesTV has ever attended. It was not just the con