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Category: Historical Movies
Games 80
is a 2024 Russian drama series directed by Evgeniy Stychkin. The series is set against the backdrop of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, offering a glimpse into the intense preparations for the event. The story follows the son of a Soviet functionary who, after causing yet another scandal, is assigned to work as a…
Rurik Dynasty: The First Chapter (TV Series)
is a 2019 Russian series, delves into the tumultuous and riveting history of the first ruling dynasty of Russia. This epic series traces the rise and reign of the Rurikids, beginning with the legendary Varangian prince Rurik, who laid the foundation for what would become a vast and powerful empire. The narrative weaves through the…
The Road to Calvary
is a Russian 12-episode television miniseries from 2017. It is based on the eponymous trilogy of novels of the Soviet writer Alexei Tolstoy and directed by Konstantin Khudyakov. An epic periodic drama commemorating 100 years October Revolution. Based on the famous novel “Sisters”, the first part of Alexey Tolstoy’s trilogy “The Road to Calvary”. A…
Witnesses
is 2018 historical drama directed by Konstantin Fam. Movie iunfolds through three interconnected stories against the backdrop of World War II. The film delves into the lives of three characters – a Jewish violinist, a boxcar, and a pair of children’s shoes – each representing different facets of the Holocaust. Through these objects, the movie…
The World Champion
is a 2021 Russian sports drama film written and directed by Aleksey Sidorov. Film ventures into the intense and cerebral world of chess, spotlighting the historic rivalry between two Soviet chess titans, Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi. Set against the Cold War’s ideological backdrop, the film explores not just the strategic battles on the chessboard…
Kaddish
is the second feature film directed by Konstantin Fam. Like Konstantin’s previous work, this film is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. “Kaddish,” directed by Konstantin Fam in 2019, is a deeply moving film set against the tragic backdrop of World War II, delving into the profound suffering of a Jewish…
Assassin of the Tsar
is a 1991 Soviet drama film, starring Malcolm McDowell and Oleg Yankovsky. It was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the…
Alexander Nevsky
is a 1938 historical drama film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake…
Here’s to You and Us!
is a 2023 Russian movie directed by Andrey Smirnov. Moscow, 1952, mid-October, the XIX Congress of the CPSU had just ended. A communal apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovka. In one of the rooms lives the Petkevich family: Ariadna with her husband Boris and her parents, professor of philosophy Peter Kazimirovich and his wife Angelina Fyodorovna. For…
Amanat
is a 2022 Russian historical war film directed by Anton Sivers and Rauf Kubayev. The love story of the son of Imam Shamil Jamalutdin and Lisa Olenina against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the military history of Russia in the first half of the 19th century. Jamalutdin went down in history as a…
100 Minutes
is a 2021 Russian historical war drama film directed by Gleb Panfilov, a film adaptation based on the story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The film premiered at the 2021 Locarno International Film Festival. 100 Minutes is the tale of thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and…
Revenge
is a 1989 Soviet drama film directed by Ermek Shinarbaev and written by Anatoli Kim. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Enraged, a teacher murders a young female pupil. Over the years, another boy is bred for one sole purpose: to avenge his sister’s death.
Attack and Retreat
is a Soviet-Italian war drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and Dmitri Vasilyev in 1964. Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Iuda
is a 2014 Russian drama film directed by Andrey Bogatyrev. Judas, a seasoned thief, finds himself in the market square where Christ is giving a sermon and his apostles are collecting alms. He follows them and steals their money, only to be caught red-handed. Nevertheless, the Teacher forgives him. What is more, He invites the…
Strike
is a 1925 silent drama film directed and edited by Sergei Eisenstein, and produced in the Soviet Union at Goskino. Eisenstein’s first full-length feature film, he would go on to make Battleship Potemkin later that year. Performed by the Proletcult Theatre, and composed of six parts, Strike was in turn, intended to be one part…
Battleship Potemkin
is a 1925 Soviet silent drama film. Directed and co-written by Sergei Eisenstein. A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.
Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
is a 1981 Soviet film directed by Eldar Ryazanov, shot in the style of a historical tragicomedy. The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark… But evil…
The Legend of Princess Olga
is a Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic film directed by Yuri Ilyenko. The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories [oral and written] about Princess Olga of Kievan Rus’ at the start of the 11th century.
