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- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey KravchenkoOlga MironovaLiubomiras LauceviciusAfter finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
- DirectorGavriil EgiazarovStarsGeorgi ZhzhyonovAnatoliy KuznetsovVadim SpiridonovIn November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Soviet high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors.
- StarsHelmut HellstorffVyacheslav TikhonovArtyom KarapetyanThe battle of Moscow was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War. The film is dedicated to some fighting events that took place in the USSR after Hitler's conquest of western Europe.
- DirectorYuriy OzerovStarsMikhail UlyanovBukhuti ZakariadzeYakov TripolskyBiopic about Marshal Georgi Zhukov. Documentary footage from WWII and dramatization played by Russian and German actors.
- StarsStefan GetsovBohus PastorekHorst PreuskerTens of images of historical characters are shown. People who have taken part in fighting against Nazi Germany as well as the activity of the leaders of the communist parties of the USSR, Rumania, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany during the World War II.
- DirectorIgor GostevStarsVyacheslav TikhonovOleg ZhakovAleksandr DenisovFront bez flangov (1974) is the first episode in the trilogy about the partisan's fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia during the WWII.
- DirectorIgor GostevStarsVyacheslav TikhonovIvan LapikovGalina PolskikhFilm is a sequel to "Front bez flangov" (1974). About the partisans fighting against the Nazi's occupation of Rissia during the WWII.
- DirectorIgor GostevVictor KulleStarsVyacheslav TikhonovIvan LapikovEvgeniy MatveevFront v tylu vraga (1981) is the final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechozlovakia. Lt. Colonel Mlynsky is now in charge of an international clandestine operation. He is the commander of the special group of partisan-fighters. Mlynsky is organizing the Russian, Polish and Czechoslovakian partisans to join foces for an attack behind the enemy lines.
- StarsAleksandr Pankratov-ChyornyyAnna GlaubeEva Shevchenko-HolovkoIt is July 1941, and the Nazis are advancing towards Kiev at great speed. As the situation in the city becomes more tense and untenable, Ivan Rokotov's job, as senior investigator at the Kiev Military Prosecutor's Office, becomes increasingly busier. When Nikolay Mirsky, Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor of the Red Workers' and Peasants' Army, unexpectedly arrives from Moscow, he quickly decides to form a special squad at the Military Prosecutor's Office of the Front to include Rokotov and Svetlana Yelagina, a former investigator for the Dnepropetrovsk Crime Investigation Department. Rokotov and Yelagina are tasked with investigating major cases by acting both at the frontline in the territory of the Kiev Fortified Area, and in the city itself, where rising criminals are joining German subversives in infiltrating the city, while a number of Soviet government representatives are happily profiting from other people's misery and suffering. Rokotov, who was educated at a high school during the reign of the last Russian Tsar, and Yelagina, an ardent Young Communist League member, have to overcome their political and ideological differences before being able to work together, reacting quickly and efficiently to the constant changes in the city. Fighting against both overt and clandestine enemies, Ivan and Svetlana begin to experience a shift in their professional relationship, which grows into real love, possible only in the face of certain death. Meanwhile, Mirsky is holding his own investigation aiming at exposing a spy organization that has been operating in Kiev since the late thirties, but his search leads him unexpectedly to a secret conspiratorial group directly connected to his and Rokotov's pasts..
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyEduard AbalovStarsNikolay BurlyaevValentin ZubkovEvgeniy ZharikovDuring WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
- DirectorVladimir RogovoyStarsGeorgiy YumatovAlina PokrovskayaVasiliy LanovoyWars and time could not break the connection between the fates of Alexei and Ivan. Soviet drama about lifelong friendship.
- DirectorRezo ChkheidzeStarsSergo ZakariadzeVladimir PrivaltsevAleksandr NazarovAn old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front lines. Reluctant to return home empty-handed, he tries to follow and find him.
- DirectorMikhail PtashukStarsEvgeniy MironovVladislav GalkinYuri KolokolnikovThe movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.
- DirectorKonstantin KhabenskiyStarsKonstantin KhabenskiyChristopher LambertFelice JankellSoviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
- StarsDalvin ShcherbakovAleksandr MartynovBoris KudryavtsevThree Soviet prisoners of war flee from a Nazi concentration camp at the end of the war. One of the guards helps them and runs with them. Many years later, this former German henchman comes to the idea of destroying all the fugitives with whom he once escaped from a concentration camp. His cruel plan he begins to put into action.
- DirectorKim DruzhininStarsAndrey MerzlikinAnton FilipenkoAglaya Tarasova1940. A prototype of a new cutting edge tank is being taken on a secret mission to Moscow, to Comrade Stalin. Soon the cross-country run turns into a ruthless race.
- DirectorKonstantin MaksimovStarsAndrey ChernyshovVladimir EpifantsevSergey GorobchenkoThe movie inspired by real events tells the story of the KV-1 tank's crew heroic deed. Having a losing fight, the crew of Semyon Konovalov destroyed 16 enemy tanks, 2 armored vehicles and 8 vehicles with enemy personnel near Nizhnemityakin farm in Tarasovskoye district of Rostov region. This is the story of not the poster heroes, but broken, cheerful, and very diverse guys who just wanted to live. At the decisive moment they managed to do the only right thing and performed the deed worthy of the legend.
- DirectorAleksey SidorovStarsAlexander PetrovIrina StarshenbaumViktor DobronravovAn SS Panzer Division uses a T-34 manned by Soviet POWs as a training target, but the prisoners plot a daring maneuver.
- DirectorKirill BelevichStarsStanislav CallasValeriya DmitrievaIlya KorobkoIt's August, 1944. The Soviet Troops continue the offensive in Eastern Poland. The lieutenant Egorov' subdivision gets the task to hold the bridge to be crossed by the Soviet Army units. On arrival to the position the soldiers find the destroyed monastery and the group of deaf-mute orphans with their teacher Eve inside. Eve has lost the faith but she finds the sense of life in taking care of and saving infirm and defenceless children. There is complicated choice for Egorov - if he executes the order of the headquarters he has to compromise the little Poles. The artillerymen try to do their best to prevent children's death.
- StarsVyacheslav TikhonovYefim KopelyanLeonid BronevoyDuring World War II, a Soviet undercover spy manages to infiltrate the Nazi elite.
- DirectorNikita KurikhinLeonid MenakerStarsVyacheslav GurenkovGennadiy YukhtinValeriy PogoreltsevDuring World War II, a squad of Soviet POWs steals a tank from Nazi test site and rushes into a desperate shoot over Germany.
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsRolan BykovAnatoliy SolonitsynVladimir ZamanskiyA Soviet POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Germans.
- DirectorSergei PopovStarsAmir AbdykalovYura BorisovMaksim DemchenkoThe film is based on a novella by the well-known Soviet writer who served at the front, Emmanuil Kazakevich "Two in the Steppe" and the war diaries of Konstantin Simonov.
- DirectorArkadi SirenkoStarsVyacheslav BaranovGeorgiy DrozdEduard BocharovWorld War 2, White Sea. A Soviet transport ship carrying wounded from the front line is sunk by German planes. The ship's only survivor, an 18-year old conscript is being pursued from the air by the German ace pilot who wants to "finish the job".
- DirectorSergey VasilevGeorgi VasilyevStarsBoris ZhukovskyBoris BabochkinPavel GeragaFront commanders Gorlov is a military commander who went through a civil war, unable to apply new methods of warfare in the fight against fascists.
- StarsStanislav LyubshinAlla DemidovaValentina TitovaThe title refers to the emblem of the Soviet NKVD. The story involves a spy who infiltrates the German SS during World War II.
- DirectorVasili OrdynskyStarsNadezhda FedosovaPyotr LyubeshkinLiliya DzyubaWar time drama set in WWII. Citizen of Moscow gather in a patriotic show of defiance to help slow down the advancing Nazi forces that are closing in on the city.
- DirectorViktor AristovStarsYury BelyayevSvetlana BragarnikLyubov KalyuzhnayaIt is based on real historical events related to the defense of Leningrad by the Red Army and the subsequent blockade of the city by the troops of the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. In the autumn of 1941, under the fire of German artillery and air raids, a small Soviet detachment delivered gunpowder necessary for the defense of the city from Kronstadt to Leningrad.
- DirectorFridrikh ErmlerStarsMikhail DerzhavinPyotr AndriyevskyYuriy TolubeevReleased after the Russian victory over the Germans in WWII, the film stresses the role of the officer staff during the Battle of Stalingrad.
- DirectorVadim ShmelyovStarsArtyom GubinLubov KonstantinovaIgor YudinA film about the feat of the Podolsk cadets in October 1941 near Moscow. The cadets of the Podolsk artillery-infantry schools are ordered to take up defenses on the Ilyinsky line.
- DirectorBoris BarnetStarsPavel KadochnikovAmvrosi BuchmaViktor DobrovolskySoviet agent Fedotov must cross over into German occupied Ukraine and steal the correspondence between a high ranking German general and Hitler.
- DirectorIgor KopylovStarsSergey ZharkovIvan BatarevOleg GayanovIn the winter of 1942/1943, a series of not-so-well known, yet bloody battles occurred near the town of Rzhev. Those battles received the name of 'Rzhev Meat Grinder'. The film is based on the award-winning novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev.
- DirectorMikhail ZharovStarsLyudmila TselikovskayaAleksandr GraveMikhail ZharovA touching comedy introduces us to ordinary soldiers who have taken care of the maintenance of a fake airfield that distracts the enemy's attention. Corporal Tonya is loved by two pilots - Hero of the Soviet Union Kroshkin and French officer Laroshel, who visit the girl between fights. The film, in particular, shows to whom and why she will give her preference.
- DirectorSemyon AranovichStarsRodion NakhapetovAleksey ZharkovAndrei BoltnevIn 1944,when British navy convoys try to supply the Soviets with war matériel under the lend-lease agreement,the Soviet naval aviation base in Murmansk is attacked by German bombers.
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovSergey TrofimovStarsPavel PriluchnyyPavel ChinaryovEvgeniy SerzinA captured Soviet pilot faithful to his childhood friends leads an escape from a German concentration camp and then suffers from communist crimes.
- DirectorAndrey BogatyrevStarsAleksey ShevchenkovVladimir GostyukhinYura BorisovA detachment of Soviet soldiers, including a dangerous half-man, half-ghost, come up against an elite death squad within the Wehrmacht.
- DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsBoris PlotnikovVladimir GostyukhinSergey YakovlevTwo Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
- DirectorMikhail KalikStarsNatalya BogunovaEvgeniy SteblovAnna RodionovaGoodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. It's summer, and their main goals are swimming in the Black Sea and wooing the girl all three of them love. However, they are asked to become officers in the military, and slowly their worlds begin changing forever. Their parents oppose them, they begin fearing losing each other and their families, and the military tricks and maneuvers them into joining the army instead of the navy.
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsVladimir IvanovInna MakarovaNonna MordyukovaThe film is set in the city of Krasnodon (Sorokyne) in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Ukrainian SSR (now Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine). Local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance. The teens manage to outsmart the Nazis in their fight. They blow up the Nazi recruitment offices. Their activity lifts the spirits of the surviving citizens. They organize other school-friends in the groups of five to help the citizens in their struggle for survival. Their courage helps many others to survive.
- DirectorBoris VolchekStarsPyotr VelyaminovDonatas BanionisElena DobronravovaThe Lucky Pike is a spacious submarine, manned by a picturesque and good hearted crew, in this World War II melodrama.
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsNikolai KomissarovSergei VecheslovYelena KuzminaLast days of WWII. English and American agents head to Berlin for secret negotiations with nazi leaders.
- DirectorLev ArnshtamStarsGalina VodyanitskayaYekaterina SkvortsovaKseniya TarasovaA popular, inspirational biography of a World War II Soviet heroine, showing her life in flashback as she is captured and tortured fighting the German invaders.
- DirectorAnatoliy GranikStarsLeonid BykovNikolay YakovchenkoAleksandr BorisovMaxim Perepelitsa is a cheerful, mischievous and resourceful young man from a Ukrainian village. He loves to make up stories and invent practical jokes. When he is drafted into the Russian Army, he doesn't stop his antics.
- DirectorBoris StepanovStarsLyubov RumyantsevaStanislav LyubshinVladimir BelokurovA romantic tale set during WW2 between a Soviet (Belarussian) soldier and Italian girl, who try to escape the horrors together.
- DirectorRenat DavletyarovStarsPyotr FyodorovAnna PeskovaValeriy GrishkoDuring a mission in WWII, the plane of Nikolai Komlev is shot down. He manages to bring his plane down in a remote forest clearing, but far from friendly territory, he faces a relentless test of physical and mental endurance.
- DirectorLev GolubJaroslava VosmikováStarsValentin KlimenkovVlasta VlasákováMiroslav NohýnekIn a Byelorussian village the German soldiers massacred all the family except for a small boy who was shut in a metal barrel and sent down the river. Fortunately his moaning is overheard by soldiers of the Red Army and soldier Aljosa in a heavy firing draws the barrel near to the bank. Miserable Borisek, after recovery, becomes a regular member of the medical military service and attains the rank of younger sergeant.
- DirectorViktor TurovStarsNina UrgantSvetlana SukhoveyOlga Lysenko
- DirectorValeri RubinchikStarsIgor MerkulovAleksandr ZhukovskyIrina ZelenkoAt the very end of the war, two guys escape from school and make their way to the front. In the bustle of the train station, the fugitives lose each other - and soon one of them will have to take his first fight.
- DirectorTimofei LevchukStarsYakov TripolskyMikhail UlyanovVladimir MenshovThe film recreated the events that occurred during the Great Patriotic War. The Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy battle was a brilliantly conducted operation by the Soviet General Staff, with which 1944 began. This is a story about events taking place in the Korsun-Shevchenkov region. The enemy's grouping was located there, preventing two Ukrainian fronts from uniting and moving further to the Southern Bug. The task was set clearly and uncompromisingly - to destroy the enemy. The generals of the two armies Vatutin and Konev think over everything to the smallest detail, no mistakes can be made. All this is not easy, since at the same time battles are being fought from other sides.
- StarsOleg DalIgor VasilevElena PrudnikovaIn basis of film is documentary material about the actions of soviet secret service in Tallinn occupied by hitlerites.