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- DirectorIstván SzötsStarsAlice SzellayJános GörbePéterke FerencyA woodcutter moves his wife and son onto a mountain for an attempt at a better life but tragedy soon sets in.Hungarian war-time film, quite Neorealist, much acclaimed by fascist avant-gardists
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsClara CalamaiMassimo GirottiDhia CristianiGino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.Italian fascist-era Neorealist film by Visconti.
- DirectorLuis TrenkerStarsLuis TrenkerViktoria von BallaskoWerner KunigA German-born Swiss citizen emigrates to the United States in search of a better life and making fortune. Based on the story of John Sutter, gold rush pioneer and founder of what would become the city of Sacramento.Nazi Western, filmed on location in California
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsVsevolod AksyonovYelena KuzminaMikhail AstangovMcPherson and Gould, the owners of a dozen reactionary American newspapers, are systematically conducting a slanderous campaign against the Soviet Union. In order to get "fresh" material, they send journalist Harry Smith to Russia. Returning from Russia, Smith feels that he is not able to fulfill the order of the newspaper owners. Contrary to everything, Smith decides to write the truth about the Russian people. McPherson widely advertises a future book. But after reading the true work of a journalist, McPherson enters into a frantic rage.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2hVMaraJu4
First Soviet Cold War Film directed by Romm. Soviet filmmakers imagine the life in the United States - DirectorFridrikh ErmlerStarsNikolay BogolyubovIvan BersenevOleg ZhakovIn the guise of a character named Chakov, Ermler reconstructs in his epic the achievement of popular Leningrad leader Kirov, who was killed in 1934,and creates a portrait of political discussions and struggles during the 30s.Film about Kirov; ordered by Stalin personally, later hidden for years.
- DirectorPiotr UklanskiStarsBoguslaw LindaKarel RodenKatarzyna FiguraA small peaceful village suddenly becomes a very dangerous place when a foreigner appears with a wanted man.Polish Western with Val Kilmer
- DirectorKaljo KiiskYuli KunStarsTerje LuikRein ArenPeeter KardWorld's first Kinopanorama film, color, made by Tallinnfilm
- DirectorDeran SarafianStarsFrank WhaleyNatalya NegodaRoman PolanskiDuring Gorbatchov's perestroika, Archer Sloan, a Chicago student, visits Moscow while the Soviet Union is changing from Communist to Wild West capitalist society. Purely by bad luck, he becomes a pawn in a dangerous cat and mouse game for a black Madonna, a precious icon, which was stolen from Russian Orthodox clergy by the quickly rising, rich and corrupt Russian mafia, and then by a black market-girl he followed just as a flirt who didn't know herself what she nicked. The well-connected mobsters find him and threaten his life in no time, and the US embassy isn't very helpful, worse, it's also infiltrated...