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- DirectorVladimir MotylStarsAnatoliy KuznetsovPavel LuspekayevSpartak MishulinAt the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov is ordered to guard the harem of a Caspian Sea guerrilla leader.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevArina AleynikovaIlya RutbergA satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.
- DirectorSergey VasilevGeorgi VasilyevStarsBoris BabochkinBoris BlinovVarvara MyasnikovaThis film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a decorated hero in the World War I and later in the Russian Civil War, that followed the Russian revolution. This man of action is fighting on the side of the poor people. His troops consist of peasants, just like him. Unable to write, he can brilliantly demonstrate various battle tactics by moving potatoes on the table. He is street smart. He never lost a battle against the experienced Generals of the Tzar's Army.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsYuriy YakovlevLeonid KuravlyovAleksandr DemyanenkoAn ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, looks like Tsar of All Rus' - Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 - 1584). He'd never known this, until his neighbor created a time machine.
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovIsidor SimkovStarsLyubov OrlovaYevgeniya MelnikovaVladimir VolodinIn the mid-1930s, circus actress Marion Dixon flees the United States with her young black son. Arriving with an original attraction in the USSR, she finds friends here and decides to stay forever.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsAleksandr DemyanenkoNatalya VarleyVladimir EtushA young student Shurik comes to a remote mountainous region in search of ancient legends and traditions. Fooled by the corrupt local governor, he helps him to kidnap a beautiful young girl, but soon realizes what he's done.
- DirectorAleksandr PtushkoStarsVladimir KonstantinovIvan YudinIvan BobrovWhile hearing the story of "Gulliver's Travels", a young Russian boy dreams that he is the title character on the island of Lilliput.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsMarina LadyninaVladimir ZeldinNikolay KryuchkovModest Glasha Novikova sent to Moscow to the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition. Here she meets with Dagestan shepherd Musaib Gatuevym. In parting, Glasha and Musaib promise to write to each other and meet at the show next year. But on their way to the groom gets Kuzma, also in love with Glasha.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovSerafima BirmanPavel KadochnikovAs Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima BirmanDuring the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
- DirectorLeonid LukovStarsMark BernesBoris AndreyevVera ShershnyovaA story of infantry soldiers on the Leningrad front during the German invasion of Russia in WWII, which stresses the importance of friendship between combatants from different regions and ethnicities.
- DirectorVasiliy ShukshinStarsLidiya Fedoseeva-ShukshinaVasiliy ShukshinIvan RyzhovA former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past doesn't let him go.
- DirectorMikhail ShvejtserStarsSergey YurskiyLeonid KuravlyovZinoviy GerdtA crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs, " now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsMarina LadyninaNikolay KryuchkovBoris AndreyevAn example of a popular genre in 1930s Soviet film, the musical comedy exalting the economic and social success of Communism, inspired by but in competition with the Hollywood musicals of the same era.
- DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsNikita MikhalkovAleksei LoktevGalina PolskikhYoung Siberian writer Volodya meets Kolya in the Moscow metro in his visit to a famous author. Volodya and Kolya's friend Sasha adventure their love interests in their own way, while Kolya sets out to help them.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
- DirectorYakov ProtazanovStarsYuliya SolntsevaIgor IlyinskyNikolai TsereteliEngineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
- DirectorGrigori LomidzeStarsAleksey KonsovskiyA film shows the basic historical stages of becoming of Moscow from the origin of city to 1947.
- StarsVyacheslav TikhonovYefim KopelyanLeonid BronevoyDuring World War II, a Soviet undercover spy manages to infiltrate the Nazi elite.
- DirectorMikhail RommDmitriy VasilevStarsBoris ShchukinNikolai OkhlopkovVasili VaninThe movie about events of October revolution of 1917 and Lenin's role in the organization of revolt of Bolsheviks.
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevLeonid TraubergStarsBoris ChirkovValentina KibardinaMikhail TarkhanovA 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and has particular merits in realistic performance, photography and movement, plus some musical touches in way of folk songs."
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevLeonid TraubergStarsBoris ChirkovValentina KibardinaAnatoliy KuznetsovMaxim, now a Marxist agitator going by the name of Fyodor, organizes strikes against the production of military equipment, culminating in open revolt against the Czarist forces.
- DirectorTofik ShakhverdievStarsNikita KhrushchevA documentary shows several contemporary Soviet citizens who are staunch supporters of the discredited Stalin.They include a public prosecutor, a factory foreman, a taxi driver and a schoolmistress
- DirectorSergei YutkevichStarsMaksim ShtraukhMikheil GelovaniBoris TeninA propaganda comedy that tells the story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of an ignorant and easy-going peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings. He does manage to make the Stalin and Lenin characters look like just a pair of good old boys when they laugh as he tells them he allowed a White general to escape because he was awed by the uniform.