Laboratory Man of the USSR

Good Bye, Sowjetunion!

In the beginning, there was the dream of a better and fairer society. For millions of people; however, the Soviet dream became a nightmare. After all these years since its collapse, what still remains of the Soviet Union

Der Untergang der Sowjetunion

Bilder aus der Sowjetunion

Amateur film by German ethnographer, church historian, and icon collector Martin Winkler, taken on several trips to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.

Was wurde aus der Sowjetunion?

Stalin's Cola

The story of a mysterious soda developed by legendary Georgian juicemaker Mitrofan Lagidze on the order of Stalin in the early 1950's. In the so-called lemonade war Lagidze was instructed to create a soft drink better th

From Blitzkrieg to Barbarism – The War of Annihilation Against the Soviet Union

The documentary focuses on the German Wehrmacht’s invasion of Poland and the Soviet Union during World War II and its consequences for the German military. On June 22, 1941, “Operation Barbarossa” marked the start of a w

Legacy of a Superpower: 30 Years After the Collapse of the USSR

Thirty years ago, in 1991, the Soviet Union, founded in 1922, disappeared, giving birth to fifteen new states, located between the Baltic Sea and the Pamir mountain range, which went their own way. How many of these repu

Day of the Victorious Country

Purple Triangles

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

White Peaks of Siberia

French author Sylvain Tesson pays tribute to the heroes of the Russian Revolution as he crosses the Pamir mountain range in Tajikistan, which boasts a multitude of peaks at more than 7,000m. They will have the occasion t

The Last Days of the USSR

From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic results of his perestroika, and Yeltsin, embodying the hopes of the Russi