Zoya

Zoya 1944

4.00

The true story of one of Russia's most beloved national heroines. During the Nazi siege of Moscow, a fearless 18-year-old girl named Zoya risked her life as a partisan fighter. Captured by the Germans, Zoya endured unspeakable tortures at the hands of the Gestapo but still refused to betray her comrades. Even on the gallows, Zoya defiantly spoke out against the Nazis and everything they stood for. In a series of flashbacks, this film re-creates not merely Zoya's death, but also her life.

1944

Kashchey the Immortal

Kashchey the Immortal 1944

6.90

A beautiful maiden, Marya Morevna, gives her prospective husband, the mighty warrior Nikita Kozhemyaka, three riddles to solve before she'll marry him. Before he can tell her the answers, the Russian land is invaded by the armies of Kashchei the Immortal, in whose footsteps death and destruction follow. Marya is abducted by Kashchei, and Nikita finds his home in ashes. Nikita meets a kindly wizard who gives him a cap of darkness. With it, the hero will find a way to save his bride and rout Kashchei.

1944

The Village Teacher

The Village Teacher 1947

5.10

A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to enlighten people and examples by 1880s revolutionary "People's Will" member teachers, a young woman spent her life in a village and evidenced the changes a Russian village has undergone from pre-revolutionary tsarist times to late 1940s.

1947

Vassilisa the Beautiful

Vassilisa the Beautiful 1940

6.50

Based on a Russian folk tale, Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful) is about a father whose three sons go out to finds themselves brides. Two of the boys come home with perfectly normal girls, but the youngest brother, Ivanushka, brings home a frog from the marshes. His father finds this most curious, but what he does not know was that the frog was actually a beautiful girl named Vasilisa who was cursed by a magical serpent whom she refused to marry. Now Ivanushka must overcome tremendous obstacles to restore Vasilisa to her true form and free her from the serpent's spell.

1940

My Apprenticeship

My Apprenticeship 1939

5.70

Second entry in Ukrainian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer (Alexei Lyarsky) was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.

1939

A Captain at Fifteen

A Captain at Fifteen 1945

5.10

A classic movie based on a famous "Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen" novel by Jules Verne.

1945

Cruiser 'Varyag'

Cruiser 'Varyag' 1946

4.00

A story of heroic Russian war cruiser 'Varyag'.

1946

Private Aleksandr Matrosov

Private Aleksandr Matrosov 1947

10.00

The film is about the exploit of a nineteen-year-old soldier of the Great Patriotic War - Alexander Matrosov, who covered the embrasure of the enemy's bunker with his body.

1947

We from the Urals

We from the Urals 1943

5.70

A story about two teenagers and their life during WWII in Urals district of Russia.

1943

Siberians

Siberians 1940

5.50

Two six-graders are trying to find the Stalin's pipe and return it to the owner.

1940

Sinegoriya

Sinegoriya 1946

1

A story about the boys and their life during the WWII. Based on Lev Kassil book.

1946

First-Year Student

First-Year Student 1948

5.30

Marina Orlova couldn't even imagine how many adventures are expecting to her in a first grade...

1948

Treasure Island

Treasure Island 1937

5.60

An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" with drastic changes to the plot. A group of English rebels searches for pirate's treasures to buy weapons for the civil war.

1937

An Elephant and a Rope

An Elephant and a Rope 1945

1

All the girls of one of the Moscow houses can tirelessly jump over a skipping rope. But little Lida did: can't learn to jump. Once in a dream a wise elephant gives her a piece of advice: to learn how to jump, you must first do a good deed...

1945

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky 1938

6.04

Young Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to his warm-hearted grandmother, who instills in him the willingness to pursue his writing muse.

1938