This semi-realistic comedy-fantasy by director and co-writer Georgi Danelia features a lower-level bureaucrat who snaps on...
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1983
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1980
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1976
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1975
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1973
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1973
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When a dashing young hero discovers an old treasure map, he sets out on the high seas to seek out the booty in Russian...
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1971
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1969
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1968
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1966
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As the communist revolt progresses in Russia, a female commissar is dispatched to some anarchist sailors to get them on...
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"The Boss"/"Vozhak"
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1963
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1962
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Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by the great writer Leo Tolstoy, this engrossing drama is set at the turn of the 20th...
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Erochka
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1961
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Once again, Russian director Yulia Solnsteva fulfills her goal of directing movies that her late husband Alexandre Dovchenko...
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General
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1960
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This Russian melodrama, set in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the century, follows the exploits of a wealthy grain...
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1959
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1959
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1959
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The well-known writer Alexandre Dovjenko died before his screenplay for Poema O More could be transformed into a filmed...
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Father
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1958
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Its title notwithstanding, The Mexican was filmed and released in Russia. The screenplay is based on a story by Jack London,...
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Paulino Vara
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1957
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The original Russian title of The Sword and the Dragon was Ilya Muromets. Boris Andreyev plays the title character, a...
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Ilya Mporometz
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1956
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Only mildly propagandistic, the Russian A Big Family is capable of entertaining even the most entrenched of anti-communists....
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Ilya Matveyevich
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1954
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1953
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Young Tolya Bovkin plays the title character in the Russian Maximka. Based on a story by K. Stanyukovich, the film traces the...
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Luchkin
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1952
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1951
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Filmed in color on a grand scale, Fall of Berlin re-creates the final days of war in Europe from the Soviet point of view. As...
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1950
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1949
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Slowly but surely, a few Russian films trickled into America despite the "Red Scare" of the 1950s. Cossacks of the Kuban has...
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1949
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Virtually every frame of the Russian Symphony of Life is filled with happy, singing, smiling carefree peasants. Put bluntly,...
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Yakov Burmak
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1947
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1946
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Assembled by the same producer-director team responsible for the popular Russian wartime drama The Baltic Deputy, The Last...
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Maj. Zhukovsky
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1944
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Shown as part of the Soviet Retro series at the 2000 Locarno Film Festival, Boris Barnet's 1945 film traces the fortunes of...
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Christophorov
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1944
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The fifth War-Loan Drive was drawing to a close in late 1944, but Russian films like Two Soldiers still made the rounds in...
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Sasha
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1943
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Utterly plotless, Concert of Stars is a compendium of top Russian musical talent. The first act on the bill is a performance...
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1942
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1942
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1941
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1939
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1939
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