Aleksandra Danilova

Alyoşa, annesi ile vedalaşamadan savaşa katılan 19 yaşında bir Sovyet askeridir. Tek başına iki düşman tankını havaya uçurarak generali tarafından madalya ile ödüllendirilir. Ancak Alyoşa generalinden madalya yerine annesini görmek için iki günlük izin ister. Köye dönüp evlerinin çatısını tamir etmek, annesi ile vedalaşmak istemektedir. Alyoşa için eve gitmek o kadar kolay olmayacaktır. Annesi tarafından sevgi ile büyütülen Alyoşa yolculuğu sırasında zaman zaman karşılaştığı insanlara gösterdiği yardımseverlik yüzünden oldukça zaman kaybeder. Annesi'ne ulaştığında hemen hemen hiç zamanı kalmamıştır * kısaca bugüne kadar yapılmış en iyi savaş filmi.

Hikayesi 20 yılı aşkın bir süreyi kapsayan filmde, üç kadının genç kızlıktan orta yaşlarına gelmeleri, hayatlarına yön veren önemli olayların eşliğinde anlatılıyor. Bu yolculuğu izlerken de Sovyetler Birliği'nde sıradan insanların günlük yaşam akışına tanık oluyoruz. Hikayenin merkezinde olan kadınlar aslında Moskova'lı değiller ve yurt gibi bir yerde yaşıyorlar. Kadınlardan özellikle biri, evlilik yoluyla sınıf atlamak konusunda kararlı ve ana olaylar da bu hikaye etrafında dönüyor * Bu Sovyet kült filmi, aldığı Oscar ödülünün yanı sıra 1980 yılında Berlin Film Festivali'nde Altın Ayı ödülüne aday gösterilmiştir.

Tolstoy’un destansı başyapıtı, yönetmen Sergei Bondarchuk tarafından kusursuz bir şekilde beyazperdeye aktarılıyor. Oscar ödüllü bu başyapıtta, Rusya’da 1805’de başlayan olaylar dizisi, beş aristokrat ailenin öyküsü etrafında anlatılır ve 1812’de Napolyon’un Rusya’yı işgaliyle zirve yapar. Tolstoy’un dört ciltlik bu dev eserindeki tarihi detayların inanılmaz bir özenle aktarıldığı filmde, 45 dakikalık savaş sahneleri o kadar gerçekçidir ki çekimlerde 120.000 kişilik bir ordu oluşturulmuş ve pek çok at öldürülmüştür. Sovyetler Birliği’ndeki müzelerden alınan eşyaların kullanıldığı film, gerçeğe son derece yakındır. "Savaş ve Barış", aynı adlı romandaki duyguları ve atmosferi de başarıyla sinema diline aktarır. "Edebiyatla sinemanın kusursuz evliliği" olarak nitelendirilen filmin çekimleri tam yedi yıl sürmüş, yapımda binlerce oyuncu rol almış ve dönemin koşullarında 100 milyon dolara mal olmuştur.

1812'de Napolyon'un ordusu Rusya'yı işgal eder. Mareşal Kutuzov, Bolkonsky'den kurmay subay olarak kendisine katılmasını ister ancak prens sahada komuta yetkisi ister. Pierre Bezukhov, ordular arasında yaklaşan savaşı izlemek için yola çıkar. Borodino Savaşı sırasında, bir topçu bataryasına yardım etmek için gönüllü olur. Bolkonsky'nin birliği yedekte bekler ancak ona bir mermi isabet eder. Hem Anatol hem de Bolkonsky ağır yaralar alır. Fransız Ordusu muzaffer bir şekilde Moskova'ya ilerler.

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.

Paralyzed since birth, Ilya can only watch helplessly as his village is plundered by barbarians. But when a mysterious traveler arrives with a magic elixir that restores him to full health, Ilya begins an adventure to protect the village and the royal family from harm.

In the steppes of the Kuban love is born on two collective farms while wheat is (enthusiastically) gathered. Galina, the energetic chairwoman of one of the two kolkhozes, vies with her male counterpart for the best harvest. At the same time Gordey, her rival, a former soldier, is (and has been for ages) in love with her. On her part, Dasha a collective farm worker, has heartbeat for a young technician of the competing kolkhoz...

The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team of Soviet prisoners of war, former "Dinamo". It happened in Kiev on June 22, 1942. Anticipating the possibility of losing, the Germans made a condition — defeat or death. If the Germans won, the Soviet footballers were promised freedom...

A veteran of World War II returns to civil life and the collective farm he once led, only to find his wife has re-married.

Don Cossack Stepan Razin vowed to take revenge on the boyars for his tortured friends. Having led the rebellious peasants, he becomes the leader of an entire army. Humiliated and insulted people flock to him from all over the Russian land.

The legendary commander of the Civil War, the winner of Wrangel arrives in the capital at the call of Stalin. In the capital, he is perplexed to learn that the Politburo at a special meeting decided to force him to operate on a long-standing ulcer. The attending physician is convinced that the operation is not needed, but, obeying party discipline, the old Bolshevik lies on the operating table.

On an ordinary Moscow street, a family lives together in an unremarkable house: a mother and four children. But one "fine" day in this family there is a violent conflict over the furniture with which the apartment is packed. However, furniture is just an excuse. In fact, two worldviews collide, different ideas about life values...

The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. It shows soldiers leaving their village for the front; in their absence, the desolate but resolute young women of the village assume responsibility for the business of the farm

A film story about everyday life of people in the countryside, their work in the collective farm and their attitude to their work. Unlike those who fulfil their duties according to the commands of the party leadership, milkmaid Praskovya Likholetova belongs to those people who do not pass by mismanagement and injustice. She has always been a truth-seeker, principled, honest, convinced of her rightness, and this has often led to conflicts. Having worked almost 40 years on the farm, Praskovya was forced to retire. But before leaving, she said that now she has a lot of time, and she will take care of their affairs...

A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.

In the autumn of 1943, a factory school was set up in one of the rear towns to train turners. Teenagers evacuated from different cities who lost their parents during the war study and work here. The boys are helping the front with their selfless work...

Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events.

A first part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.

Twelve-year-old Pavlukha lives on a fishing farm with his mother. His father left his family long ago, in which, apart from Paulukha, he has two other children. To help his mother somehow, the boy goes to town to earn money...

A story about the fate of several generations of an old Moscow family. The life of these people, full of drama, fatally intersects with the historical fate of Russia. The plot focuses on the love of a young officer and a girl against the background of Stalinist socialism.

Junker Olenin, a representative of St. Petersburg's golden youth, is traveling from St. Petersburg to the Caucasus in search of romance. His regiment is stationed in the Cossack village. Here he falls in love with the beautiful Maryana and is ready to marry her, but she loves the Cossack Lukashka and is not going to exchange him for the master.

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Varya Kravets remains on her native collective farm after graduating from school. Her first love also came to her. The death of her beloved is all the more unexpected for her. Fellow villagers are helping to overcome the crisis.