Karl Gurnyak
2021Пышка
Mikhail Romm
Galina Sergeyeva, Andrey Fayt
A film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant. The action takes place in the XIX century. Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A group of French bourgeois leaves in a stagecoach from Rouen occupied by Prussian troops. Along with them comes one attractive demimonde lady. The only way to get out is to persuade her, nicknamed "Ball-of-Fat" a la "Boule-de-Suif" to satisfy the lust of the head of the gendarmerie...
Boule de Suif
Потомок Чингисхана
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Valéry Inkijinoff, I. Dedintsev
In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he escapes to the hills after brawling with the trader who cheated him. In 1920 he becomes a Soviet partisan, and helps the partisans fight for the Soviets against the occupying British army. However he is captured by the British when they try to requisition cattle from the herdsmen at the same time as the commandant meets with a reincarnated Grand Lama. After the trapper is shot, the army discovers an amulet that suggests he is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. They find him still alive, so the army restores his health and plans to use him as the head of a puppet regime. The trapper is thus thrust into prominence as he is placed in charge of the puppet government. By the end, however, the "puppet" turns against his masters in an outburst of fury.
Storm Over Asia
Привидение, которое не возвращается
Abram Room
Boris Ferdinandov, A. Filippov
The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his rebel gang. This existential drama disguised as a saga about the proletarian struggle presents a lonely and insecure individual who is challenged to act more heroically than he is prepared to, but who constantly questions his confidence and loyalties.
The Ghost That Never Returns
Зоя
Lev Arnshtam
Galina Vodyanitskaya, Rostislav Plyatt
The true story of one of Russia's most beloved national heroines. During the Nazi siege of Moscow, a fearless 18-year-old girl named Zoya risked her life as a partisan fighter. Captured by the Germans, Zoya endured unspeakable tortures at the hands of the Gestapo but still refused to betray her comrades. Even on the gallows, Zoya defiantly spoke out against the Nazis and everything they stood for. In a series of flashbacks, this film re-creates not merely Zoya's death, but also her life.
Zoya
Ее путь
Aleksandr Chtrijak, Dmitri Poznansky
Emma Tsesarskaya, Aleksandr Zhukov
When Praskovya’s new husband attempts to hurt her on their wedding night, she fights back, and when he’s called away to fight in World War I not long after, she tends to their farm on her own, determined to make the best of a bad situation.
Her Way
Март-апрель
Vasily Pronin
Oleg Zhakov, Yanina Zhejmo
Великая Отечественная война. Капитану Жаворонкову, командиру группы советских разведчиков-парашютистов, поручено лично уничтожить склад бомб, находящийся на территории, оккупированной фашистами. Успешно выполнив задание, Жаворонков встречается в условленном месте с радисткой. Героям предстоит трудный и долгий путь к своим через лес, тронутый половодьем…
Март-апрель
