"Solovky Power" is a documentary about the first Soviet labor camp created by Lenin in 1923. Solovky was established in a complex of ancient monasteries on a cluster of islands off the remote White Sea coast. Though its name derives from the Russian word for nightingale, the title of the film...
In her quest to uncover the wrongdoings of the Russian authorities, Anna Politkovskaya inspired awe in some and fear in countless others. At age 48 she was assassinated for simply doing her job. This documentary is based on Anna's conversations with filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya, Anna's former...
Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s laughter, in a way that has never been seen before. Based on a book by Alexis Krasilovsky, the film tells the stories of camerawomen surviving the odds in Afghanistan, Australia, Canada,...
There was no Soviet actor who could claim a greater popularity than Raikin. He was allowed the impossible: to be a satirist. Even during the height of government approved Anti-Semitism, Raikin was a figure to be reckoned with. He was known and beloved by all, his razor-sharp wit admired - and...
Oleg Yefremov was one of the most beloved actors and directors in Russia. He was the founder of the Sovremennik (Contemporary) Theatre and later became the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre. The film shows him in a moment of extreme dramatic tension: Yefremov has decided to split the...
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films...
A 1978 travelogue showing the performances of the Soviet Jewish Theater on tour throughout the United States. The actors sing and dance and recite Yiddish poetry to a most enthusiastic American public.
The film is about Yuri Zavadsky, his work as the chief director of the Moscow Theater. The Moscow City Council and the last performance of the master - "Petersburg Dreams" (based on Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment").
Valentina Tereshkova's journey from a peasant girl to the first woman in space. After factory work and technical studies, her parachuting hobby led to joining the cosmonaut program, making her a Soviet hero.
Using the example of the family of Nikolai Stepanovich Sivkov, who lives on the Krasnaya Gorka farm in the Arkhangelsk region, the film tells about the difficult problems of implementing a family contract in rural areas. The film touches on the issues of rural labor organization, the place of...
"I don't think that the chairman of the Bedul collective farm, if we had trusted his direct interview, would have told us something particularly interesting. His life had taught him well not to say too much, and if he did, it was without going beyond what was accepted in his circle. And when we...
The history of Russian poetry contains a tragic episode: the tragic fate of the legendary Marina Tsvetaeva, who returned to the USSR shortly before the start of World War II, then committed suicide in 1941. The fate of her sister, Anastasia - also a poet - is lesser known, despite the fact that...
Covers six weeks of the lives of Sasha Politkovsky, a prominent TV journalist, and his family. Chronicles the events of 1990 as glasnost and perestroika lift the lid of totalitarianism in the Soviet Union.
Using the example of a number of farms in the Tula, Gorky regions, and the Estonian SSR, the film tells about the development of local industry in rural areas - one of the factors in solving the problem of securing rural personnel.
About the behavior of a three-year-old child in the family - for 20 days, the film crew observed the process of learning about the world around the baby. The film was shot with a hidden camera.
The film's plotline was the rehearsals of the play "Brest Peace" based on the play of the same name by M.Shatrov at the Yevg.Vakhtangov State Academic Theater, which made it possible to see M. Ulyanov at work on the role of V.I.Lenin, to trace the birth of the image, to see the manifestation of his...
