A Lesson Not Learned 1971 ( 4.3)

This film was made in reaction to revanchism fear that Germany would reunite and seek revenge on Europe and the USSR for World War II. A disguised Nazi slips into the US zone of divided Germany. The Americans nurse him back to health as he plots how to reunite the Fatherland. His plans are ruined when he runs headlong into the Berlin Wall, erected by the USSR between East and West Berlin in 1961.

Mister Wolf 1949 ( 5)

Film pamphlet based on satirical play of Evgeny Petrov "Island of Peace". Funky by atomic hysteria, American businessman Mr Wolf quits his business and with his family leaves on a secluded island.

Prophets and Lessons 1967 ( 5.2)

Soviet propaganda cartoon contrasting the alleged lies of capitalism, depicted as a charlatan prophet, with the alleged achievements of the Soviet working people.

Semyon Dezhnyov 1983 ( 7)

Veliky Ustyug at the beginning of the 17th century. Semyon Dezhnyov falls in love with the daughter of a rich merchant — Avdotya, but the groom is poor. The girl's father sets a condition: Dezhnyov must go to Siberia and get rich — only then will he receive consent to marry. Dezhnyov agrees and leaves for Siberia. Although he passes the test, he does not return to Avdotya. He finds a strait "from a warm sea to a cold one": from the mouth of the Kolyma he swims to the Pacific Ocean and opens the strait between the continents.

And You Will See the Sky 1978 ( 6)

About the fifteen-year-old hero of the World War II, military pilot, cavalier of the Order of the Red Banner and two orders of the Red Star - Arkady Kamanin.

N/A N/A ( 9)

The Dreamer 1988

A musical-plastic film based on the jazz opera "Porgy and Bess" by George Gershwin is a dramatic story of the unhappy love of the legless Porgy and the young beauty Bess.

Lady with a Lapdog 1986

Rodion Shchedrin's ballet based on the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov, staged by the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. The inimitable Maya Plisetskaya in the on-screen version of the theatrical ballet, which is an original production, solved by means of a television movie.