Russian and Soviet films, TV-shows and cartoons with English subtitles.
This modestly budgeted, made-for-TV romantic comedy became one of the most popular films in the former Soviet Union and a staple of TV broadcasts on New Year's Eve. It's based on the premise that modern apartment complexes look so much alike that one cannot distinguish one city from another. On New Year's Eve, Muscovite Yevgeny Lukashin finally dares to make a marriage proposal to Galya. They plan to celebrate the New Year together quietly, but Lukashin's friends convince him that first he should attend their annual meeting at a bathhouse. The meeting quickly turns into an improvisational bachelor party for Yevgeny. Having consumed large amounts of alcohol, they cannot remember which one of them was supposed to fly to Leningrad to meet his wife. So they put the sleepy Lukashin on a plane. Upon his arrival in the Leningrad airport, Yevgeny gives the taxi driver his Moscow street address and the cab takes him to an apartment complex located on a street with the same name. The building looks very much like his own, so Lukashin, still not quite sober, does not realize that he is in another city...
The film is based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Jim, a dashing young man dreaming of romantic, thrilling adventures, happens to come across an old sea chart. It shows the way to a treasure hidden by a legendary pirate, Captain Flint. The treasure is buried on an island lost in the ocean. Jim and his friends venture on a dangerous seabound journey on a beautiful tall ship. But it turns out that they are travelling on the same ship with the pirates, former members of Captain Flintâs team.
This story, both happy and sad, is based on the popular fairy tales by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. Two parallel story-lines develop in this film. At a roadside inn, the puppets play out for their master a merry, magic fairy tale about a brave soldier and a wicked princess, a witch and a kind wizard, and a fantastic city where a ridiculous and silly king lives. The puppet show has a happy end. The filmâs other story-line is different, with much more sad lyricism in it. In real life, unlike the puppet show, the relationship between the young puppeteer and his beloved is not that simple.
Young Russian Danila returns home after serving a two-year military stint and discovers that his big brother has become a hit man for mobsters in St. Petersburg and is deeply involved in a Mafia war. Wanting to help, Danila joins the mobsters to become his brother Viktor's assistant. Aimed a younger audiences, this ironic thriller follows Danila's adventures after he successfully completes his first assignment, the murder of The Chechen, a prominent crimelord...
During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with the empowerment of the ordinary man over the arrogant "specialness" of genius. Dedicated scientist Lopatkin takes refuge in Moscow with the potty, brilliant old inventor Busko. Lopatkin works tirelessly on his invention, embarking on a roller-coaster of rejection and acceptance, his work vilified, plucked apart and plagiarized by colleagues, particularly by his nemesis Drozhdov. Drozhdov's wife Natasha, alienated from her cold, controlling husband, is increasingly drawn to Lopatkin, whom she knew when they both taught at the same school. Soon she runs away from her husband and happily keeps house for the two absent-minded ex-professors Lopatkin and Busko. Natasha is ready to give Lopatkin her own life, love and faith. Lopatkin is eager to sacrifice his life for the idea, doing the utmost for his motherland.
The first full-length feature film by the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. It caused a popular sensation in cinema world. The film was highly praised by the great 20th-century French writer Jean-Paul Sartre. It got various comments from prominent international cultural figures who admitted that the world had not yet seen such a powerful motion picture about war. The 12-year-old Ivanâs childhood ended the day the Fascists shot his mother and sister right before his eyes. Ivanâs father was killed in the war. The orphaned boy joins an army detachment, becoming an elusive scout. Risking his life, he brings to his commanders invaluable information about the enemy. But one day he does not come back from his missionâ¦
The summer of 1936. The legendary Division Commander Kotov, a famous military leader and Stalinâs personal favorite, is vacationing with his family at his dacha. The idyll of the house with an attic is interrupted by the sudden arrival of Mitya, a former student of Kotovâs wife Marousiaâs father. Mitya and Marousia were lovers once, dreaming of the future together⦠Today, Mitya is collaborating with the NKVD, and he came to take revenge⦠The film is closing the theme of the 1930s in Soviet history, capturing the atmosphere of âa long happy day in the life of a girl, which will end with her father being taken awayâ.
A major corporation produces human-like robots; however, the public opinion, the media and the trade unions oppose it. A decision is made to conduct an experiment. An experienced pilot is to fly a spaceship to Saturn and launch two artificial satellites from there. The crew will be made up of androids, and the commander must evaluate the work of his unusual team. To accomplish the flight, pilot Pirx is chosen, who is known for his honesty and integrity. His ill wishers from the corporation are afraid that Pirxâs opinion might upset the profitable production, so they take measures⦠Pirx wins in the confrontation between a human being and androids. In a difficult situation, he was helped by a member of his crew â Tom Novak. Pirx was shocked when he learned that Novak was an android, too. A screen adaptation of Stanislaw Lemâs sci-fi novel.
The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great masterâs life, of his friendship with Baroness von Meck, an outstanding woman of her time, who for many years was Tchaikovskyâs guardian angel. The film also includes retrospections of the composerâs childhood and adolescent years, with Tchaikovskyâs life poetically recounted against the background of fragments from his operas and ballets performed by the best Russian musicians.
The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great masterâs life, of his friendship with Baroness von Meck, an outstanding woman of her time, who for many years was Tchaikovskyâs guardian angel. The film also includes retrospections of the composerâs childhood and adolescent years, with Tchaikovskyâs life poetically recounted against the background of fragments from his operas and ballets performed by the best Russian musicians.
XXIII century. A reconnaissance starship discovers a dead alien spaceship of unknown origin in deep space. The crew are found to be humanoid bodies, made by an advanced cloning process. One humanoid woman appears to be alive but has memory loss and is brought back to Earth. Scientist Sergei Lebedev settles her in his own house and names her Neeya. Some time later, Neeya finds out that she has supernatural abilities...
XXIII century. A reconnaissance starship discovers a dead alien spaceship of unknown origin in deep space. The crew are found to be humanoid bodies, made by an advanced cloning process. One humanoid woman appears to be alive but has memory loss and is brought back to Earth. Scientist Sergei Lebedev settles her in his own house and names her Neeya. Some time later, Neeya finds out that she has supernatural abilities...
This is a screen adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy. King Lear had three daughters: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. One day he banished and repudiated his youngest and most loved daughter. But the evil elder sisters betrayed their father and blinded him. Having lost not only his kingdom, but even a plain shelter, the old Lear, accompanied by his loyal jester, had finally seen the light of truth and was reunited with Cordelia who was not afraid to share her fatherâs fateâ¦
This is a screen adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy. King Lear had three daughters: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. One day he banished and repudiated his youngest and most loved daughter. But the evil elder sisters betrayed their father and blinded him. Having lost not only his kingdom, but even a plain shelter, the old Lear, accompanied by his loyal jester, had finally seen the light of truth and was reunited with Cordelia who was not afraid to share her fatherâs fateâ¦
Based on early stories by Maxim Gorky, this movie won the grand prize at the 1976 San Sebastian Film Festival. The flamboyant and rugged lifestyle of gypsies living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire early in the 20th century is beautifully screened in this story about the love between a young horse thief and a rebellious young gypsy girl and their tragic deaths during their marriage ceremony.
âNon-science fictional, not entirely realistic and not exactly historical filmâ based on Mikhail Bulgakovâs play âIvan Vasilievichâ. Inventor Shurik has constructed in his regular Moscow apartment a⦠time machine. Accidentally it sends Ivan the Terribleâs namesake and double respectable retired Mr. Bunsha and a thief George Miloslavsky to the Tsarâs palace, and the Tsar finds himself in our time. Further events are unpredictableâ¦
Friends call Valiko Mizandari âMiminoâ, which means âfalconâ in Georgian. Working as a helicopter pilot in his own village, Mimino delivers mail, fruit, sheep. But his greatest dream is to fly real, big aircraft. Finally his dream comes true. He is invited to work in the big international air company âAeroflotâ, and he leaves for Moscow. Mimino meets all kinds of people in the capital, among them a driver working on inter-city freight runs, Khachian, who becomes his friend. In Moscow, Mimino also meets an old-time offender of his sister. Always amicable and open to people, Mimino does not feel at home in the big city. Nevertheless, he becomes a pilot of a supersonic jet liner, flying all over the world. But feeling homesick, he finally comes back to Georgia, to his family and friends.
"The Planet of Storms" was one of the first Soviet fantastic films directed by Pavel Klushantsev, a screen version of the novel of Alexander Kazantsev about space travel. The film has been made with use of unique technologies of the combined shooting at times leave behind of advancing foreign analogues existing in those days. On a planet Venus goes joint Soviet-American expedition on three spaceships. One of the ships perishes at collision with a meteorite. The remained crews make decision to make landing on Venus and left on an orbit only one person for support of communication with the Earth. The spaceship and a glider from other ship sit down far apart...
A screen adaptation of the novel by the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The 19th-century Russia. A poor student, Rodion Raskolnikov, commits a crime which is inevitably followed by pangs of conscience: his soul, burdened by the sin of murder, is torn between faith and faithlessness, hope and despair. The investigation conducted by detective Porfiry Petrovich finally points to Raskolnikov. But before his meeting with the investigator, Rodion experiences a genuine love. This very love will help him repent. The life of the mysterious 19th-century St. Petersburg, the strong, controversial characters and an unexpected outcome hold the viewer in suspense up to the very end.
It is a very ridiculous film about the process of how films are shot; it shows all the way of the film from the moment of the birth of the script and up to premier. A song is executed by Vocal Instrumental Ensemble "Sokol " (Falcon).
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