Acting
In the dark days of Nazi occupation, a young Hutsul girl native to the Carpathian mountains falls in love with a wounded Soviet partisan. Their affair sets in motion a tragic chain of events, as her family turns against her with shocking results.
Leader of a traveling gypsy band from the steppes of Bessarabia (now Moldova), Toma Alistar is a skilled violinist whose fame takes him on tours around European capitals and royal courts. He remains obsessed with his first love, beautiful Leanca who was married elsewhere while Toma was traveling, and spends his life and fortune trying to find her.
Famous Romania communist propaganda movie, one of the templates to what followed. It is about the volunteers that built the Bumbești-Livezeni railroad.
Oil reserves have been discovered in the Republic of the Garnet Islands, which have become a subject of US interests. A naval landing is organized against a sovereign state, and CIA agents are sent in. However, one of the foreign journalists manages to learn about the upcoming military action.
Don Cossack Emelyan Pugachev says goodbye to his wife and children and goes to run. The elder Filaret blesses him to lead a rebellion under the name of Peter III of Russia. The insurgents dealt with the feudal lords cruelly. Queen Catherine the Great directs troops against the rioters. Traitors betray Emelyan, and now he is being transported across Russia in an iron cage.
The story of the dramatic relationship between a father and son. The backdrop is the struggle of Italian patriots against the Austrian occupiers for the unification and independence of Italy.
This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
About the romantic youth of the legendary commander, hero of the Civil War G.I.Kotovsky (1881-1925). An inexperienced fighter against landlord arbitrariness becomes a professional revolutionary under the influence of revolutionary events in Russia.
The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor health, learning for her becomes unbearably difficult, but dreams of a ballerina career make her stubbornly deal with adversity. Anna’s performance and determination does not go unnoticed by the celebrated choreographer Marius Petipa, who helps to stage Pavlova's examination performance. Such a gift becomes a starting point for Ani in the world of big ballet, her fast-paced career, position in high society and world fame make her forget about close friends and especially her faithful Michel Fokine, who invested a lot of energy in the formation of a ballerina.
The tragic story of the Karamazov family takes place in a Russian province in the late 19th century. The relations of their father and three brothers are very complicated and contradictory. One of the brothers is accused of killing his father, whom he did not commit. The brothers are unable to help him, and only a loving girl follows him to hard labour.
A Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftists Chilean government of Salvador Allende. This film confines its efforts to the main events themselves and is based on interviews with eyewitnesses, including many who resisted the takeover.
Petre Chirimpey, a talented inventor and rationalizer, graduates from school and stays to work in his native village. He dreams of becoming famous and eventually winning the heart of his former classmate Lucia Boston, who is in love with the animal breeder Shapteboy. Petre succeeds in both endeavors, and the film concludes with the wedding of the well-known inventor and the beautiful Lucia.
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An aristocrat falls for a young woman who brings him ruin. Based on Chekhov's story. AKA A Hunting Accident, The Shooting Party.
After his father's death in a car accident, Emil, a teenage boy, struggles to come to terms with the loss. When his mother brings Misha into the house, Emil begins to suspect that Misha is responsible for his father's death. His suspicions are soon confirmed, and he realizes that his father took his own life after learning about Luchika and Misha's love. As the story unfolds, Emil must confront the truth and find a way to understand and forgive his mother.
To save their flocks from the heat and the sun, the shepherds of a Soviet cooperative farm decide to take them to a fertile but remote place. A journalist and the beautiful daughter of one of them accompany them in their long journey. Folklore melodrama praising the truth and the beauty inherently tied to nature and folk rituals.
The fates of two women: Ilinka, a member of the partisan movement, the mother of two adopted children; Varvara— the chairman of the collective farm, secretary of the district party committee...
Fritz Schmenkel, a farm worker and soldier in the fascist Wehrmacht, deserts in Belarus in 1941. He wants to survive, makes his way to Russian farmers and comes into contact with Soviet partisans who, after long interrogations by the German teacher and current partisan Miron, take him in as one of their own. Schmenkel proves his reliability in a number of daring actions and is awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In the winter of 1943/44, he is given a reconnaissance mission and falls into the hands of the fascists in Minsk. After days of interrogation, which he withstands, the Nazis execute him.
18th-century Turkmenistan. By the will of the rulers of the Khanate of Khiva, the once-blooming land was turned into a desert. In order to unite the scattered nomadic tribes and make his people independent, the elder of one of the tribes, Khodjanepes, secretly travels to St. Petersburg to seek help from Peter I. The tsar, who was interested in strengthening the southern borders, sent Prince Cherkassky's expeditionary force to Turkmenistan, but he made a grave mistake. After listening to the Khiva Khan, who had heard about Khodjanepes's visit to the Russian capital, the tsar divided the expedition into two groups, giving Khodjanepes an excellent opportunity to deal with his soldiers.
11-year-old Minko is forced to move from a decaying village to the city with his father, mother and sick grandfather. New apartment, school and classmates greet the boy with hostility. This only strengthens his desire to return home, where there is a forest and his friends. But what Minko misses the most is Ginger Fairy, a tame moose he once saved and which disappeared the day he left.
