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Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
Style: absurd
Plot: worker, european, caucasian, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, manuscript, publisher, office, absurdism, absurd humor, secretary, book ...
Place: soviet union, georgia, caucasus, ussr
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The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The life of revered the 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova (Vilen Galstyan). Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his ...
Style: surreal, poetic, atmospheric, avant garde, psychedelic ...
Plot: poet, surrealism, trippy, writers, poetry, biopic, medieval, magic realism, art, metaphor, death, betrayal ...
Time: 18th century, year 1969
Place: soviet union, caucasus, ussr, russia, georgia ...
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Autumn Marathon (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main problem is that he's a kind man with a weak character. The lies he is telling his wife all ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous, witty
Plot: midlife crisis, infidelity, affair, translator, love triangle, language learning, family problems, couples, love affair, homecoming, fish out of water, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: soviet union, europe, russia
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A Railway Station for Two (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: love and romance, train, chance meeting, haunted by the past, nothing goes right, disorder, false accusation, down on your luck, love story, new love, encounter, initially antagonists ...
Time: 80s
Place: soviet union, russia
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Ten Little Indians (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, tension, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, danger, haunted by the past, island, whodunit, death, vigilante, guilt, survival, secret, confession, stranded on an island ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: ussr
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Love and Pigeons (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Shown a life in the remote siberian village. Vasia, who never leave his family, village, comes to pass summer holiday on the Black Sea. New world, new people - so, hi's temted by a half-crazy woman (Raisa Zaharovna). And after short time Vasia ...
Style: light, humorous, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: village life, love triangle, love and romance, adulterous husband, resort, everyday life, social relations, husband wife relationship, life philosophy, parent child relationship, adultery, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the war had ended), the kids have to come up with something to keep them busy. Two friends, Valerka and ...
Style: black and white, contemplative, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: gulag, coming of age, children, boy, train crash, post war, child as adult, female nudity, poverty, social injustice, traumatic childhood, totalitarian regime ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, year 1990
Place: soviet union, russia, siberia, ussr
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Oblomov (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story: St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and ...
Style: atmospheric, spiritual, romantic, talky, serious ...
Plot: european, economist, summer, spirituality, family relations, sleeping, friendship, peasant, friends, master and servant, society, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, year 1980, turn of the century
Place: russia, ussr, soviet union, st. petersburg russia, rome italy ...
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Afonya (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even ...
Style: funny, sincere, satirical, ironic
Plot: love, social satire, bribery, friendship, middle aged man, social relations, coworker relationship, social outcast, slacker, social misfits, communism, plumber ...
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
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The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.
Style: art house, spiritual, contemplative, surreal, poetic ...
Plot: fortress, legends and myths, surrealism, camel, mythology, magic realism, folklore, spirituality, gay subtext, heroic mission, escapades, danger ...
Time: year 1985, middle ages
Place: georgia, ussr, caucasus, soviet union, europe
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Viy (1967)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
Style: suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, serious, stylized ...
Plot: witch, folk horror, witchcraft, church, supernatural, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, danger, escapades, evil dead, good versus evil, medieval ...
Time: medieval times, year 1967, middle ages
Place: ukraine, soviet union, kiev ukraine, russia
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The Wishing Tree (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story: This poetic parable is part of Tenghiz Abuladze’s cinematic triptych: “The Supplication” – “The Wishing Tree” – “Repentance”. The place is Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. That’s how director Tenghiz Abuladze ...
Plot: mental disorder, tragedy, boy meets girl, male objectification, bare chested male, priest, love, christianity, soviet
Time: year 1977
Place: caucasus, soviet union, georgia, russia
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Scarecrow (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, sincere, touching, spiritual ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, bullying, mockery, traumatic childhood, teenager, school, brutality, outcast, betrayal by friend, deception, first love, grandfather granddaughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, russia
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Waterloo (1970)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min.
Story: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of ...
Style: epic, serious, exciting, emotional, stylized ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, napoleon bonaparte, battles, british army, military, war, state affairs, politics, military life, medieval, betrayal, tragic hero ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, regency period, 18th century ...
Place: europe, belgium, britain, soviet union, france ...
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The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a ...
Style: art house, realistic, serious, spiritual, uplifting ...
Audience: kids
Plot: youth, friendship, childhood, self discovery, children, boy, spirituality, young adult, coming of age, minimalism, art, friends ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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The Guard (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Young soldiers of the Soviet Internal Troops are brutally bullied during their time of Dedovshchina(hazing). The plot unfolds mostly on board of a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.
Plot: bullying, perestroika, soldier, train, murder, brutality, escape, youth, sauna, killing, train travel, security guard ...
Place: ussr
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Nostalgia (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had ...
Style: atmospheric, philosophical, art house, cerebral, contemplative ...
Plot: art, existentialism, philosophy, dream, poetry, storytelling, obsession, great ending, memory, redemption, writer's life, culture clash ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr, rome italy, europe ...
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Love and Lies (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Vam i ne snilos... A movie about two high school kids who meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates uneasiness in both of them. Also because ...
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating, psychological
Plot: school, parents and children, classmate, injustice, truth, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, jealousy, lie, destiny, fall in love ...
Time: 80s
Place: soviet union, russia
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Promised Heaven (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story: In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return ...
Plot: perestroika, social injustice, elderly, nudity, wedding, colonel, homelessness, alcoholic, female nudity, bare breasts, death, surrealism ...
Place: ussr
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War and Peace: Part II (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and ...
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, napoleon bonaparte, love, soldier, engagement, aristocrat, coming of age, soviet, young, ball
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
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Five Evenings (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Tamara and Sasha were separated during the war. Now (1957) Sasha is visiting Moscow for five days and by chance recognizes the house where Tamara used to live. She is still living there with her nephew Slava.
Style: period drama
Plot: european, male female relationship, train station, middle aged, old love, house, memory, aunt, restaurant, lie, television, neighbor ...
Time: post world war two, 1950s
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia
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Days of Eclipse (1988)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min.
Story: This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's ...
Style: poetic, spiritual, avant garde
Plot: underground, post apocalypse, european, spirituality, doctor, corpse, heat wave, soviet, black and white segues into color
Place: soviet union, ussr
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Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story: "I Am Walking Along Moscow" aka "Ya Shagayu Po Moskve" (1963) is a charming lyrical comedy directed by Georgi Daneliya in 1963 that was nominated for Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival. Daneliya proved that it is possible to ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, sincere
Plot: military enlistment, wedding, army, love and romance, family relations, society, friendship, boyhood, ridicule, subway, love, writers ...
Place: moscow russia, russia, soviet union, ussr
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King Lear (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and ...
Style: spiritual, contemplative, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: shakespeare, knight, betrayal, realism, stage play, spirituality, kingdom, siblings, family relations, intrigue, state affairs, dishonesty ...
Time: middle ages, year 1971
Place: soviet union, russia
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Rasputin (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot: royal family, world war one, clergy, intrigue, imperial russia, russian history, psychopath, tragic hero, ambition, revolution, rebelliousness, betrayal ...
Time: 1910s, year 1916, year 1917, year 1981
Place: soviet union, st. petersburg russia, russia
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A Slave of Love (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she ...
Style: silent, realistic, serious, talky, vintage ...
Plot: russian revolution, russian civil war, dictator, actor, women, cinema, european, summer, revolution, filmmaking, movie star, actress ...
Time: 1910s
Place: russia, crimea, odessa ukraine
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Love (1991)
Genre: Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two Moscow students are mostly concerned with scoring with women but their lives change radically when one of them falls for a Jewish girl whose family is being persecuted by anonymous anti-Semites and is preparing to emigrate to Israel.
Plot: first love, immigration, anti semitism, love, student, male pubic hair, family relations, women, girl, female nudity, male nudity, jewess ...
Place: israel, ussr, moscow russia, russia
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Say a Word for the Poor Hussar (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story: The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will ...
Style: sincere, melancholic, period piece
Plot: actor, investigation, love, jealousy, secret police, actress, theater, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, social relations, illicit affair, entrapment ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia
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The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story: In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Style: spiritual
Plot: perestroika, spirituality, depression, loneliness, female nudity, male nudity, teacher, soviet, live action, film within a film
Time: year 1990
Place: soviet union, ussr
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Flights in Dreams and in Reality (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young ...
Plot: middle aged man, midlife crisis, loser, love triangle, engineer, film set, train, car, railway, young girl, soviet, psychological drama
Place: soviet union
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