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Vovochka

  Vovochka is 10 years old, tireless and irrepressible and has a God-given talent for stirring up trouble. He’s also a particularly inventive daredevil who’s more than a match for Read More

The Barber of Siberia

  Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his Read More

Beware of the Car

  Yuri Detochkin (Smoktunovsky) is a humble Soviet insurance agent who steals cars from corrupt Soviet officials in a manner akin to Robin Hood, disappointed by the militsiya being unable Read More

Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair

  A czar tries to thwart a fairy creature’s claim on his son by swapping babies with a fisherman, but complications arise later on when the creature’s beautiful daughter needs Read More

A Cruel Romance

  The film is a cinematographic adaptation of the classical Russian play “Dowry-less” by A. Ostrovsky which features a widowed noblewoman Kharita Ignatyevna Ogudalova, who comes from a very respected Read More

Donkey’s Hide

  Based on the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault, this delightful story follows Therese, daughter of the widowed King Gaston IX. Therese’s christening conjures a wicked fairy who foretells Read More

The Diamond Arm

  Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn’t know is that this was a signal for a gang of smugglers Read More

Gentlemen of Fortune

  The movie follows the story of an amiable kindergarten principal named Troshkin who looks exactly like a cruel criminal nicknamed Dotsent who has stolen Alexander the Great’s helmet at Read More

The Golden Horns

  A long time ago a splendid deer with golden antlers lived in the woods, always protecting the poor and weak and disdaining evil. In a little village nearby the Read More

Anna Karenina

  The young and beautiful aristocrat Anna Karenina (Tatyana Samoylova) is married to Alexei Karenin (Nikolai Gritsensko), a man 20 years her senior. While traveling, Anna meets the dashing Count Read More