Soviet Union Movies

Lithuanian photographer, the legend of Soviet Sixties' generation Vitas Luckus tragically passed away in 1987. Yet the life and times of the talented...

Through unique and candid interviews the film tells the compelling and tragic stories of the six women – last survivors of the Gulag, the...

The film tells about the birth of a new wave in the USSR under a strict political regime and about the era of "perestroika", when musicians received...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, after a long construction, the last and most...

A hockey player who traded friendships for a career in the United States returns home with an incurable disease. He has little time left to atone for...

When Imeda’s father is killed in a blood revenge accident, the family moves him to the city where he is sheltered at his father’s friend....

At the beginning of the First World War, Alexander Dragovich went to the front as a teenager. The October Revolution caught the hero in captivity in...

An Italian film crew travels through Moldova, amidst Soviet nostalgia, ghost states and suspended identities, discovering that the real journey lies...

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard...

Sand Snowman is an original short film by writer and director Yeva-Genevieve Lavlinski. Based on a true events, Sand Snowman reveals the hopes and...

This rare documentary was filmed with the participation and personal camera of Wolfgang Gorther, a German military cinematographer of the 1st mining...

Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is...

The Red Arrow is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Valeriy...

A film about the sociopolitical condition of the Soviet society at the end of the eighties.

A kolkhoz machine-operator is a local inventor who has tensions with his wife over his hobby. He invents a useful appendage for a grain harvester...

Ilya Kabakov is considered one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide. Born and raised in the Ukraine in the period between Stalin and...

Docu-drama surrounding the events leading to the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

“There’s a bus stop I want to photograph.” This may sound like a parody of an esoteric festival film, but Canadian Christopher...

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large serial killers in the world particularly concentrated...