The Ugly Duckling 1956 ( 7)

Soviet cartoon adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.

The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights 1951 ( 7.2)

Animated film based on the story of Alexander Pushkin. The new king's wife wants to get rid of their stepdaughter and expels it to certain death in the forest. Princess finds refuge in the forest in the seven bogatyrs. The queen, finds out about it and poisons her...

Mister Twister 1963 ( 4.9)

Adaptation of the satirical poem by Samuil Marshak, ridiculed racism. Mister Twister with his family went to the USSR on the boat, previously agreed with the Cook Travel Company to any boat or in the hotel was not "blacks, Malays and other riff-raff." Arriving in Leningrad, Twister and his family stayed at the hotel "Engleterre", and everything went smoothly until they saw on one of the floors the guest from Africa.

The Italian Straw Hat 1928 ( 6.2)

On the day of Fadinard's wedding, his horse eats a lady's hat on a bush at the roadside, while the lady is hidden behind the bush with her lover Lieutenant Tavernier. Because she is married, she cannot return home hatless without being compromised, and Tavernier orders Fadinard to replace the hat with one exactly like it - or else he will wreck his new home. In an elaborate sequence of complications, Fadinard tries to find a hat while keeping to his marriage schedule

Peter the First, Part I 1937 ( 4.7)

This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs. Rulers like Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great were widely admired for their dedication to Russia and their absolute determination to enhance her position in the world. But praise for the hated later Romanovs conflicted too heavily with the very beliefs that had brought about the Revolution in 1917.

Pugachev 1937 ( 5.8)

1773. The film tells the story of one of the most devastating events in the history of the Russian Empire—the Cossack uprising led by Emelyan Pugachev, which escalated into a civil war for the imperial throne, with Pugachev proclaiming himself Peter III.

Night Watch 2004 ( 6.241)

Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage

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Target 2011 ( 5.12)

In the year 2020, a group of wealthy Moscovites travel to an abandoned astrophysics complex, rumoured to have enough power to halt the process of aging.