Movies: Soviet union

Definitively proving that all the "B" Science Fiction of the 1950s and 1960s do not hold a candle to the 'real thing,' Pavel Medvedev's surreal 45 minute documentary Ascension is certainly one to look for. Composed entirely out of archival footage, m...

Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants....

In Soviet Azerbaijan, a divorced Armenian couple fights over the custody of their daughter, Ashen. Stolen from one parent to another, Ashen's guardians are tragically killed in the bloody war surrounding them. Will the arrival of a new savior finally...

The film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans....

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 war of annihilation that claime...

Armenian radio-engineer Arevik Sargsyan has struggled throughout her life to preserve ROT54, a giant telescope built by her uncle in the 1980s. But the collapse of the Soviet Union meant that ROT54 was left abandoned for 30 years. Now, Arevik is atte...

Albert Maysles' visual diary of the faces and places encountered along a cross country motorscooter ride through the Soviet Union in the late 1950s....

Filmmaker Binevsa Bêrîvan travels to Armenia to capture the daily life, customs, and history of the country's Yazidi Kurdish community....

The eccentric Per Emil Brusewitz influenced both world history and his entire family with his dramatic motorcycle journeys through Revolutionary Russia. When artist Leo Brusewitz follows in the footsteps of his adventurous grandfather, it becomes an ...

"Trotsky and Mexico, two revolutions of the twentieth century" tells us of the famous Russian revolutionary asylum by President Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico....

It depicts the establishment of kolkhoz (collective farming) in Bukhara. Poor dehkans are oppressed by bays and emir. One of them, unable to bear the slave labor, flees from his native land. A few years later, the fugitive returns and becomes an acti...

Compilation short film about the Communist Revolution and Soviet Union....

The third and last movie of "Vera and Anfisa" trilogy. Zoology teacher asks Vera's dad to bring his daughter with her pet monkey Anfisa at lesson, where Vera and Anfisa could be an example for comparing humans and apes as a part of evolution lecture....

A documentary about forbidden Estonian rock bands in the Soviet Union....

Short documentary about Emmen, one of the first planned cities in the Netherlands, a home for workers in the textile and metal industry. Emmen was one of the first planned cities in the Netherlands, a home for workers in the textile and metal indust...

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Follows the lives of Boris and Masha Rak, Soviet Jews who in 1934 moved to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast....

Ilya Kabakov is considered one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide. Born and raised in the Ukraine in the period between Stalin and Gorbatschow he left the country in the 80s. In his Installations and his numerous paintings Kabakov c...