
Era Savelyeva
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During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
Ballad of a Soldier

In search for a better life, Anna leaves her Ukrainian village for a big city. Three years later, she finds herself working two jobs and spending most of her days in a rooming house inhabited by broken people.
Dream

Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail Romm's tributes to the Marxist visionary who helped orchestrate the insurrection of October, 1917.
Lenin in October

A story of a four sons of a big Ivanov family who are trying to start their own independent life.
Our House

Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin’s activities in the first years after the Great October Revolution in Russia.
Lenin in 1918

The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
In the Name of the Motherland

A Russian peasant woman is captured by Nazis and sold into slavery in Germany. Shown in Cannes in 1946.
Girl No. 217

Young poet Henry Epjohn is passionately in love with Aurora, the wife of aristocrat Teddy Bompas. Aurora suspects that her husband has gotten hold of poems composed by Henry and dedicated to her, so she asks Henry to lie to Teddy about it. However, Henry's explanation to her jealous husband has the opposite effect.
How He Lied to Her Husband

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
Resurrection

A young man discovers that his father behaved dishonourably during wartime.
Reckoning

This is a fun musical film about the circus and a talented girl who dreams of becoming an artist. And although her path will be a lot of obstacles and funny misunderstandings, cheerful heroine still make your fantastic number — "Flight to the stars".
Big Attraction

Based on the play of the same name by Aleksei Arbuzov. The meeting between the chief physician of the sanatorium Rodion Nikolayevich and the patient Lydia Vasilievna begins with a conflict: the woman managed to break the sanatorium regime in the very first days of her stay. However, soon the acquaintance of two middle-aged people turns into friendship, and then into mutual sympathy...
An Old-Fashioned Comedy

Based on Maxim Gorky's early autobiographical short stories "One Day in Autumn", "Konovalov", "Twenty Six and One", "My Companion", "The Conclusion", "On the Salt", "Woman".
Across Rus'

In the distant city of Blagoveshchensk, a father and his two sons, Rodka and Kostya, live together. After graduating from college, Kostya works as a surgeon and suffocates from the "greyness" of others, and 15-year-old Rodka suffers from the inability to help people. One day, a young woman appears in their house, whom Kostya brings.
The Man I Love

Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. Nazi antisemitism is depicted in several of the sketches, including "the Physicist", "Judicial Process", and "the Jewish Wife".
The Murderers Are Coming

A circus performance with the participation of the best young masters of the Soviet circus.
Daring Circus Youth

A story about young years of Vladimir Lenin.
Ulyanov Family

On the beginning of revolutionary activity of F. E. Dzerzhinsky.
Listen!

An elderly man takes in his orphaned niece after the death of his younger brother. On the way home, on the train, in communication with various people, the true traits of his character are revealed.
In Transit

The life of little Andryusha is changing: since his father has a new wife, he will have to get used to a new mother figure after losing his mother at an early age.