Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Grigoriy Chukhray

During World War Two, Alexei Nikolaevich Skvortsov, a 19-year-old Russian soldier, destroys two enemy tanks single-handedly when he is taken by surprise...   [More...]

The Cranes are Flying (1957)
Mikhail Kalatozov

In Soviet Russia, Veronika and Boris are two young people who are deeply in love, but before they can marry World War II intervenes to separate them...   [More...]

Est - Ouest (1999)
Régis Wargnier

1946. Following an amnesty from Communist leader Stalin, a physician Alexeï returns to his native Russia after a period of exile in France...   [More...]

The Forty-first (1956)
Grigoriy Chukhray

In 1919, at the height of the Russian Civil War, the remnants of a Red Army battalion are fleeing across the Karakum Desert after being routed by the White Army...   [More...]

Letter Never Sent (1959)
Mikhail Kalatozov

A party of four young geologists undertake an expedition to the central plateau in Siberia in an arduous quest for diamond deposits...   [More...]

Solaris (1972)
Andrey Tarkovskiy

For the past decade, a space station has been orbiting Solaris, an ocean planet in a distant galaxy. The success of the mission is under threat from an outbreak of emotional crises which are preventing the crew from carrying out their research duties...   [More...]