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Иди и смотри

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Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova

The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

Welcome, or No Trespassing

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Viktor Kosykh, Evgeniy Evstigneev

A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.

Лариса

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Larisa Shepitko, Alexander Dovzhenko

Elem Klimov's documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck.

Farewell

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Stefaniya Stanyuta, Lev Durov

Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.

И всё-таки я верю...

German Lavrov, Elem Klimov

Mikhail Romm, Albert Einstein

Originally called World '68, later retitled The World of Today Romm’s film was conceived as an impassioned, large-scale essay on the origins of the 20th century and the subsequent reality the disappointed director felt slipping away from him. The film itself slipped away from him and was left unfinished at the time of his death. His younger colleagues, Marlen Khutsiev, Elem Klimov and German Lavrov, completed the film from the elements he left behind in addition to segments from Ordinary Fascism, closing the film with Romm’s ultimately optimistic outlook: "And still I believe that man is sensible..."

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

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Aleksey Petrenko, Anatoli Romashin

Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.

Sport, Sport, Sport

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Zinoviy Gerdt, Yevgeni Matveyev

A half-fiction half-documentary story about sport and it's importance in everyday life.

Похождения зубного врача

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Andrey Myagkov, Vera Vasileva

This is story about a dentist with the talent of painlessly extracting teeth, and what happens to him as a result of being naturally good at his job.

Жиних

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A young schoolboy tries to help the girl he likes to pass a test.

Smotrite, nebo!

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Ilya Rutberg, Lev Kruglyy

Elem Klimov's diploma film at VGIK.

Рассказ о фильме «Иди и смотри»

Aleksei Kravchenko, Elem Klimov

A promotional featurette for the 1985 film "Come and See" including on-set footage from the production as well as interviews with the director, writer, and lead actor.

Разговор с Ларисой

Elem Klimov, Irina Rubanova

This 1999 program, broadcast on the Russian television channel Kultura, features an introduction by filmmaker Elem Klimov and film critic Irina Rubanova to an interview with director Larisa Shepitko that was recorded just after the 1978 Berlin International Film Festival.

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Ron Holloway

Ron Holloway, Elem Klimov

Interviews with director Elem Klimov made for the Kino DVD release.

Ребята с нашего двора

Alexey Saltykov, Arseniy Yastrebov

Elem Klimov, Savely Kramarov

Комсомольский активист переезжает жить в запущенный московскмй двор, где правит хулиган Ржавый. Комсомолец начинает заниматься организацией досуга молодежи — волейбол, шахматами… А хулиган Ржавый посрамлен.