Ivan Krasko
2021
A Belated Premiere
Victor Bocharov
Ivan Krasko, Valentina Panina
A prominent Russian ballet dancer and teacher Alexander Shiryaev had another talent hidden for almost a century. Archive materials that date back to 1906 reveal his bold experiments at stop-motion and paper animation.
A Belated Premiere
Блокада: Лужский рубеж
Mikhail Yershov
Yuriy Solomin, Yevgeni Lebedev
In June 1941, the Extraordinary Defense Headquarters of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov forced units of the front to withdraw, and on July 9, Pskov was also abandoned. The battles in the Luga direction held back the enemy. The first attacks of the Germans, intending to cross the Luga line on the move, were repulsed with heavy losses for them.
Blokada: Luzhskiy rubezh
Балтийское небо
Vladimir Vengerov
Pyotr Glebov, Vsevolod Platov
Based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Chukovsky. The end of August 1941. At night, a truck rushes along the last road not yet occupied by the enemy to Leningrad. In the back of two — civil aviation pilot Lunin and commissar of the air division Uvarov. Lunin, a man no longer young, experienced, but had not yet been in battle, was sent to the legendary squadron of fighter pilots under the command of Captain Rassokhin. This squadron fought from the first day of the war and has already lost most of its composition. The story of the harsh everyday life of the defenders of Leningrad, full of heroism and tragedy; about the heavy share of city residents who fell into the ring of an enemy blockade. In the center of the story is the fate of military pilots who had to fight in the sky over Leningrad and the Baltic.
Baltic Skies
Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon
Konstantin Bronzit
Oleg Kulikovich, Liya Medvedeva
Alesha Popovich has to catch Tugarin Zmey and bring back the stolen money with the help of a talking Horse (which talks all the time and has an opinion on everything), a wise granny, a donkey and a beauty Lyubava.
Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon
Пристань на том берегу
Solomon Shuster
Inna Gulaya, Stanislav Lyubshin
Когда-то война надолго разлучила лейтенанта Климова с Марусей, девушкой из прифронтовой деревни. Климов отвоевался, женился, стал кинорежиссером. Через много лет он приезжает повидать Марусю. Они понимают, что любовь их еще жива, но счастье теперь может состояться только ценой несчастья близких людей.
Пристань на том берегу
Первороссияне
Aleksandr Ivanov, Yevgeni Shiffers
Vladimir Chestnokov, Larisa Danilina
1918. Workers from Petrograd come to Altai region to establish the first agricultural commune. In spite of the hostility of the local White Army cossacks the workers build houses, cultivate land. The poor peasants are turning towards the commune. However, White Army cossacks take vengeance on the members of the commune.
Russian Pioneers
Карлик Нос
Ilya Maksimov
Albert Asadullin, Natalya Danilova
When he refused to support power-hungry witch, the good shoemaker's boy, Jacob is transformed into a hunchbacked dwarf with overlong nose. Of their mother no longer recognized, mocked by the people of the city and driven away, Jacob runs one day a goose on the road. Together with the spring animal - in fact the king's daughter Greta enchanted - Jacob is now trying to make the transformation to reverse and put the wicked witch craft.
Little Longnose
