Aleksandr Kochetkov

A two-part East German documentary tracing Russia’s transformation from the Tsarist Empire to the Soviet Union, from the 1917 October Revolution to the achievements of the space program. Directed by Andrew Thorndike and Annelie Thorndike, the film assembles extensive archival footage to chart political upheaval, ideological consolidation, and technological ambition in twentieth-century Russia. Produced by DEFA and first broadcast on East German television in 1963.

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.

A documentary about the making of Andrei Tarkovsky's ANDREI RUBLEV, and Andrei Konchalovsky's THE STORY OF ASYA KLYACHINA.

A Soviet biographical documentary devoted to Leonid I. Brezhnev, portraying his life “at work and at home” and tracing his path from the son of a metalworker to General Secretary of the CPSU and Marshal of the Soviet Union.

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Taking the viewer on a tour through several African nations and using the full range of agit-prop aesthetics in its imagery, didactic voice-over and melodramatic soundtrack, Law of Baseness offers a scathing anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist indictment of the Western world.

The history of the Soviet space program and the flight of the world's first manned spacecraft "Vostok" piloted by Yuri Gagarin.

Roman Karmen's documentary on the political turmoil of 1970s Latin America.

An enthralling film about the life of emperor penguins in the South Pole. Narrated by Sergey Obraztsov, the head of the Moscow Puppet Theater.

A documentary on the Festival of the USSR in India that took place in 1987-1988.

A brief overview of efforts being made across the Soviet Union to deliver lost and inaccurately addressed letters to their recipients, with a particular focus on the work of children's author Agniya Barto.

A film about the creation of the first artificial satellites in the USSR and their launch into Earth’s orbit.