Purple Triangles

A documentary released on DVD alongside the related documentary "Faithful Under Trials—Jehovah's Witnesses in the Soviet Union"

Little Hero on the Run

Советская Киргизия

Gluten, the public enemy?

Why wheat, one of the staple food of humanity, is becoming a poison for a growing number of people today ? An investigation on the emergence of a new gluten-free products market. And yet, the real cause of this sudden t

King Edward's Arrival at Helsingor

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

Your Very Personal Poetry

This poetic core in youngsters is also touched in Stanukina's less known Your very personal poetry (Свои, совсем особые стихи, 1982), a wonderful film about a poetry class. It is here that one recalls Kogan's admiration

The Steel Road

Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.

Conscience

When a partisan attack on a Nazi officer sets off a chain of brutal recriminations, the inhabitants of a German-occupied Ukrainian village are faced with a sickening dilemma lest they not disclose the whereabouts of the

Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR

Documentary commissioned by the Communist Party of China which argues that Nikita Khrushchev "lit the fire of nihilism" by criticizing predecessor Joseph Stalin in his 'On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences' sp

Feeling Senses

It's a movie from 2000.

Who is Where?

Sequel to Who?, with eight new stories. Sleeping over at a friend's house is exciting. You need to take your toothbrush. And a cuddly toy. But what if it’s too scary? And Teddy wants to play with her friends but where ca

Coming of Age

A story about Bolsheviks underground in occupied Belorussia during 1918.

The Gay Retreat

Rich boy Dick Wright, rejected by both the Army and the Navy because he is a sleepwalker, joins an ambulance unit during the war with his chauffeur and valet tagging along to protect him. They accidentally get aboard a r

Svetlana Kryuchkova: Classics and Modernity

From her first stage work with Sergei Yursky at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre, to her screen debut in The Long Recess which brought her fame, to her later roles in Sergey Snezhkin’s Bury Me Behind the Baseboard and Brezhnev—

The Owl

Hunting for the "Shaheds", the fighters of the mobile fire groups lead a nocturnal lifestyle. Waiting for the target in the dark, being ready to fire throughout the night, is a grueling routine that lasts more than one y

Chekhov's Vaudevilles

Musical teleplay based on A.P. Chekhov's vaudevilles "The Proposal" and "The Bear".

Sleeping Giants: Europe's Restless Volcanoes

All over Europe, the ground is rumbling. The eruption of Cumbre Vieja on the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands in 2021 and that of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland in 2010 are here to remind us that the Old Continent

Council of Winds

Invited and uninvited guests come to the Barguzins' house for a housewarming party. The languid evening is suddenly interrupted by events that are inexplicable from the point of view of common sense, creating an atmosphe

Your Contemporary

Vasily Gubanov, the son of the film “The Communist”’s hero, arrived in Moscow not on call or for a business trip. Instead, he came to raise the issue with government authorities about halting the construction of a chemic

Meyerhold's theatre and biomechanics

Russian actor and pedagogue, Gennadi Bogdanov, presents the most important etudes and principles of Vsevolod Meyerhold's Biomechanics. Includes archival photographs and film of Meyerhold's original work and also recent s