The Ascent
The Ascent
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Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a...
Larisa Shepitko
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Wings
Wings6.9/101966HDAfter WWII, a Soviet pilot returns to civilian life and struggles in her roles as school principal and mother, and with her memories of the war.
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Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin6.6/101981HDRussian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome...
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Byelorussian Station
Byelorussian Station6.967/101971HD"Belorussian Station" is a Soviet drama directed by Andrei Smirnov, completed in 1969 and released in 1971 after censorship delays due to its...
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Farewell
Farewell6.2/101983HDMatyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of...
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Larisa
Larisa6/101980HDElem Klimov's documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck.
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You and Me
You and Me6.2/101971HDTwo middle-aged doctors and longtime friends reunite after a long separation and find themselves in a love triangle. Pyotr, Sasha, and Katya feel...
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Beginning of an Unknown Era
Beginning of an Unknown Era5.4/101967HDTwo young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the...
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Poem of the Sea
Poem of the Sea5.3/101958HDA Soviet dam project means that many old Ukrainian villages will end up under water. There are conflicts between the dam engineers and villagers who...
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Sport, Sport, Sport
Sport, Sport, Sport5.6/101970HDA half-fiction half-documentary story about sport and it's importance in everyday life.
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Heat
Heat4/101963HDAn idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kazakh steppe, only to clash with its authoritarian leader.
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In the Thirteenth Hour of the Night
In the Thirteenth Hour of the Night7/101969HDVarious dwellers of the Russian forest: Leshiy (forest goblin), Vodyanoy (water spirit), Ovinni (barn spirit) Domovoy (house spirit), Anchutka...
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Tavria
Tavria2/101960HD1914, Imperial Russia. A group of Ukrainian peasants searching for a better life in the Taurida steppe end up working at the landholding of the...
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Living Water
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Ordinary Story
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More Than Love
More Than Love0/102012HDA program on the relationship between the filmmaking couple Larisa Sheptiko and Elim Klimov.
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Talks with Larisa
Talks with Larisa0/101999HDThis 1999 program, broadcast on the Russian television channel Kultura, features an introduction by filmmaker Elem Klimov and film critic Irina...
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Slepoy Kukhar
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The Homeland of Electricity
The Homeland of Electricity0/101967HDThe Homeland of Electricity, Larisa Shepitko's adaptation of an Andrei Platonov story, was one of three short films collected in an omnibus work...
