Soviet Movie Classic

Following three lifelong friends who return to Moscow after military service, we see their aspirations juxtaposed against everyday life in 1960 Soviet Union.

A thirty-year-old typist reconsiders her values and priorities regarding her friends, fiancé, and life in general.

Young 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.

A young happy-go-lucky village doctor lives a leisurely life as comic events unfold around him.

A carefree plumber spends his days drinking and chasing women, but the emptiness of his life starts catching up to him.

Local Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ensue.

Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.

Grandma Olgha up-brings orphan Zurikela in poverty. Their struggle for life is being relieved by support of their kind neighbors, Iliko and Ilarion, whose merit is the exceptional sense of humor.

Old Yermolai Voevodin lives in a Siberian village. He has four sons and a daughter. But how different were their destinies. The eldest, Ignat, went to Moscow, began to perform in the circus, demonstrating remarkable strength. He is satisfied with his life and with his stories lures his brother Maxim to the city. He gets a job as a laborer at a construction site, but he constantly feels his loneliness. In his thoughts he does not break with the village, but pride prevents him from returning. The middle son, Stepan, is a man of irrepressible character, fought "for the truth" and ended up in prison. Three months before his release, he escapes and returns to the village to see his relatives, walk the earth and, as he says, gain strength to serve his sentence. In the village with his father, only his favorite Vasily and the mute Verka remain. Yermolai is having a hard time with the breakup of his family, passionately dreams of gathering all his sons under the roof of his house, but will his dream come true?

Three interrelated stories of thwarted young love in summertime Tashkent. Visually striking with some memorable images and two heartfelt performances, but the story line is difficult to follow as the subtitles are often lost in the bright sunlight through the trees or off the water.

Story of life of Fyodor Kuzkin, who shared all the burdens of the 30s Stalins terror and after, WW2 and post-war years. For now Kuzkin decides to leave his collective farm (rus: kolkhoz)

A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.

In Moscow from a distant village comes a rustic Russian woman. The first person she meets is a surprisingly intelligent cab driver. They meet by chance and do not even go out on a date, yet the hours they spend together are enough for her to take a fresh look at her life.

A 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.

A Siberian farm-worker and his wife travel south for their first holiday, meeting characters such as a smooth-talking con man and a professor of folklore, who invites them to stop off in Moscow.

The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf.

During the 20-day leave, war correspondent Lopatin travels by train to the distant city of Tashkent. It's very far from the front but the war seems to be present in people's minds even there.

For her, the sweet and somehow naive flight attendant Natasha, it was love at first sight. For him, a cynical and cold scientist, it's just a meeting. Their romance is just a series of short, stolen moments. But will something change between them?

The story of an Altai truck driver, a kind and outgoing person, who loves life. But it turns out that he can also be a hero, when he prevents the explosion of a gasoline truck by risking his life.

Former political inmates Sergei and Nikolai live as exiles in a remote Siberian village. After the general Soviet gulag amnesty of 1953 8 pardoned common criminals terrorize the inhabitants.

Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

After her husband is killed in World War II, and her oldest son reported missing, a stalwart peasant mother decides to hide her younger son when he runs away from the battlefront.

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Little Inga considers herself pretty and is pampered by her mother and other children in her housing block, until a new boy with questionable habits arrives and calls her ugly in her face.

A nine-former Nadias mother gets married, leaving her daughter alone. Her mothers act arouses in her soul a poignant offence. During the vacation, instead of going to parents she heads for the south. Her mother and stepfather are searching for Nadia on the resort and are trying to persuade to stay with them, but it is not as simple to convince her that they really need her