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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Young girl from the country come to Moscow, she wants to get into University, but it's too late... Anyway, she won't give up and will do everything to get a meeting with dean and sing for him.
Plot:
musician, music, girl, train station, smoking, audition, train, uninvited guest, winter, autumn, sculptor, restaurant ...
Place:
ussr, russia
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking ...
Style:
fairy tale, stylized, entertaining, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
magical, magic, children, imaginary kingdom, imagination, alternate reality, good versus evil, transformation, getting home, art, save the kingdom, surrealism ...
Place:
ussr, russia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
Style:
mystical, surreal, slasher, visual, art house ...
Plot:
perestroika, dark secret, surrealism, painter, doll, puppet, macabre, psychedelia, arrogance, mysterious past, tuberculosis, grave ...
Time:
1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, ussr, st. petersburg russia
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An American TV-journalist is interested in the trail of some strange mystery embedded in a mountainous region of the USA. After much red tape, he is allowed to enter the area. A sullen guide convoys him through several farms inhabited by even more ...
Style:
creepy, disturbing, dark, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
mad scientist, creature feature, violence, investigation, isolation, revelation, moral ambiguity, man versus nature, investigative journalism, ethical dilemma, paranoia, conspiracy ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Adventure, History
Country: Soviet Union, Romania
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
France, XV century. The young Scot, striving to make his worthy efforts, is kindly treated by the king and admitted to the guard. Soon the king entrusts him with a difficult mission - however, the matter turns into an insidious deception. Saving his ...
Style:
heroic, dramatic, epic, romantic drama, atmospheric ...
Plot:
knight, king, chivalry, bravery, medieval, palace intrigue, loyalty, honor, political intrigue, swashbuckler, rescue mission, betrayal ...
Time:
15th century, middle ages
Place:
france, ussr
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Story:
Between passengers of the steamship there is a dispute on, whether that there are in Russia righteous persons? Nobody wants to tell about the life. And only one priest, though warns that he "the big sinner", decides to tell the history.
Style:
poignant, philosophical, thought provoking, dramatic, bleak ...
Plot:
priest, confession, storytelling, faith, redemption, character study, spiritual journey, religious, sin, guilt, remorse, moral dilemma ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
ussr, russia
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
The movie, based on a story by Yuri Nagibin, depicts a young girl Vika enjoying the last days of summer vacations in a sea resort somewhere in the south.
Style:
black and white
Plot:
swimming, summer, skinny dipping, nudity, little girl, friendship, female nudity, diving, harmony, nature, betrayal by friend, holiday ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An ex-convict Viktor Dremov, who is also an ex-boxer, tries to mend his ways and start a new life but his former girlfriend is marrying another man (some old antiquarian), while local thugs rob him of his car and press him constantly trying to make ...
Plot:
fight, perestroika, criminal, restaurant, boxer, gang, arson, perjury, prison escape, athlete, driving, racketeer ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Philosophic fairy tale about kind modest man whose shadow one day leaves him only to come alive and become his sinister treacherous antagonist.
Style:
allegory, philosophical, fairy tale, surreal, poetic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
good versus evil, kindness, happy ending, redemption, jealousy, identity crisis, magic realism, transformation, palace intrigue, betrayal, love triangle, unrequited love ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bichiko experiencing strong mother that her son throughout the village serves as a care-free claims. Bichiko studies and do not care about his girlfriend Nani prefers. Nani's father, did not want to hear vardens udiplomo fiancée, the daughter ...
Style:
crying
Plot:
dominant woman, studying, insanity, research, boy meets girl, father in law, dead mother, laziness, ambitious woman, football, drunkenness, girl ...
Place:
ussr, georgia, tbilisi
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A fairytale about the Princess, the Musician, the Chancellor and a blue rose which forces everyone to tell the truth.
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, touching, sentimental, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
unrequited love, perestroika, prince, princess, magical object, fictional kingdom, royal family, love and romance, music, theatre play, imaginary kingdom, family relations ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Is so happened that Karik and Valya, the main characters, remarkably shrank in size, their whole habitual world acquiring unusual contours and unusual features.
Style:
suspenseful, surreal, educational, whimsical
Audience:
kids
Plot:
shrinking, children, insect, survival, friendship, curiosity, white rabbit, skinny dipping, young love, nudity, bare butt, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, USA, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 196 min.
Story:
The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war.
Style:
epic war
Plot:
world war two, winston churchill, airplane shot down, confession, german officer, hitler, tank, voice over narration, summary execution, jail cell, great patriotic war, battlefield ...
Time:
year 1942, 1940s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, berlin germany, brussels belgium
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
It is the future, the world is in ruins and a large portion of the population consists of deformed mutants living in reservations. In this world a man decides to spend his vacation visiting the ruins of a museum that is now buried under the sea.
Style:
apocalyptic, surreal, bizarre, eighties, weird
Plot:
religion, messiah, underground, distopia, post apocalyptic, mental disorder, wasteland, european, nuclear holocaust, life changing, epidemic, apocalypse ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An interstellar expedition is sent to study a strange planet. Despite the fact that creatures from various Earth time periods inhabit the world, the natives possess metal swords, even though they should have no knowledge of such weaponry.
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, spaceship, dungeon, sword and sorcery, witch, tribe, explorer, sword, battles, force field, cave ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, exciting, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
natural disaster, airplane, co pilot, aviation, disaster, danger, daring rescue, forces of nature, stewardess, pilot, survival, passenger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
ussr, soviet union, moscow russia, russia
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
Aleksei German produced and co-wrote (with wife and regular collaborator Svetlana Karmalita) Ardak Amirkulov’s staggering historical epic about the intrigue and turmoil preceding Genghis Khan’s systematic destruction of the lost East Asian ...
Style:
bleak, grim, intense, gloomy, period drama ...
Plot:
medieval, political intrigue, genghis khan, historical epic, rise and fall, power struggle, betrayal, survival, family tragedy, national identity, revenge, axe murder ...
Time:
13th century
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully ...
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
gulag, survival, false accusation, prison, kgb, cold war, violence, prisoner, arrest, british, attempted rape, communist ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
iran, siberia, soviet union, ussr, russia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as ...
Style:
atmospheric, visually appealing, philosophical, fairy tale, black and white ...
Plot:
betrayal, shakespeare, medieval, love, stage play, shakespeare's hamlet, royal court, knight, spirituality, moving, hamlet, realism ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, denmark
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Four Soviet cosmonauts land on the planet Venus and find it teeming with life, some of it dangerous.
Style:
captivating, exciting, semi serious, futuristic, stylized ...
Plot:
evil alien, space opera, dinosaur, venus the planet, marine life, giant monster, space, survival, alien encounter, robot, swamp, space exploration ...
Time:
future, 60s, prehistoric times, 1930s
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
По вызову своего жениха, Светлана поехала в захолустный городок, где на самой окраине стоял двухэтажный дом «на семи ветрах». Но ...
Style:
romantic drama
Plot:
world war two, separation, longing, female protagonist, uncertainty, melancholy, sacrifice, young love, small town life, faithfulness, nostalgia, isolation ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. ...
Style:
spiritual
Plot:
science, scientist, spirituality, moving, realism, dysfunctional marriage, marriage crisis, nuclear, romantic rivalry, love triangle, love, radiation ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Romance, War, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
At the outset of the War, Alexei,an airman, marries Sasha Lvova, a young factory worker. One day, Alexei does not return from his mission and he is thought to be dead. Some time after the end of hostilities though, he reappears : taken prisoner, he ...
Plot:
fighter pilot, pilot, communism, love, drunkenness, iron curtain, air force, soviet army, totalitarian regime, stalinism, family relations, frontline ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to return to their real age.
Style:
fairy tale, sincere, captivating, light, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
redemption, obstacle, evil sorcerer, chase, spell, justice, transformation, hopes, magic, friendship, youth, family relations ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Dramatisation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missle bases established on the Soviet allied island of Cuba. Shown from the perspective of the US President, John F Kennedy, ...
Style:
political, tense, suspenseful, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot:
cold war, politics, spy, president, diplomacy, political intrigue, un, race against time, nuclear, cold war era, conspiracy, cuban missile crisis ...
Time:
y2k, year 2000, 60s, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
cuba, ussr, north america, the philippines, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Larisa Shepitko's diploma film. An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kazakh steppe, only to clash with its authoritarian leader.
Style:
serious, tense, art house, earnest
Plot:
power struggle, idealism, conflict, community, character study, oppression, youth, isolation, coming of age, realism, solitude, resilience ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.
Style:
political, sinister, tense, dread, black comedy ...
Plot:
perestroika, josef stalin, fear, propaganda, totalitarianism, repression, oppression, moral ambiguity, performance art, secret police, elite, claustrophobia ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, black sea, ussr, caucasus, georgia
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, West Germany
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of ...
Style:
avant garde
Plot:
children, cuckolded husband, erotica, underground, madam, sex, surrealism, extramarital affair, male nudity, infidelity, funeral, suicide ...
Time:
1840s
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Hungary, USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
Style:
political, captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, josef stalin, propaganda, communism, politician, dictatorship, intrigue, evil man, political leader, cold war era, cold war, terror ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 50s, year 1917 ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Style:
realistic, cynical, serious, touching, tragic ending ...
Plot:
prostitute, materialism, loveless marriage, perestroika, couples, society, culture clash, sexual attraction, sex, marriage for money, foreigner, money ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, ussr, russia, soviet union
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