Tarkovsky

Acclaimed Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and his screenwriter Tonino Guerra travel all over Italy to scout locations for the film Nostalghia.

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

On the Kazakh steppe during the days of the Revolution a young boy raises a wolf cub.

Far behind the lines Vahe receives the news of his father's death. Small boy neither could accept it nor reconcile himself with the new family of his mother who married to another man. The boy prefers to live with his handicapped uncle and every day visits the railway station waiting the trains coming from the frontline. And, indeed, his father comes back after two years of guerilla warfare. But he must leave for war again as soon as his injury is healed. Vahe must be strong enough to withstand the blow.

The film is about the historical events that happened in Kazakhstan in 1920 - an operation to liquidate the White Guard troops of Ataman Dutov.

A historical drama about the Communist leader Sergey Lazo.

During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

Seven-year-old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.

Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.

Two men besiege a lunch bar looking for a third man they must kill.

At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.

A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.

Following three lifelong friends who return to Moscow after military service, we see their aspirations juxtaposed against everyday life in 1960 Soviet Union.

"Cinema of Our Time" is a documentary series about contemporary filmmakers from around the world, created by Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe, as a follow-up to the acclaimed initial series "Filmmakers of Our Time" (1964-1972).

Elokuva vangitsee aikaa ("Cinema captures time") is a two-part documentary about Soviet film. The first part, "Inhottava juttu", ('A Nasty Case'), recounts the new wave of Soviet cinema during the Thaw of the 1950s-1960s, when new filmmakers with new aesthetics emerged: Andrei Tarkovsky, Elem Klimov, Larisa Shepitko and Vasili Shukshin, among others. This short period of freedom is told by the directors themselves. The documentary features film clips and interviews of directors such as Tarkovsky and Aleksei German. The second part of the documentary, "Avautuu laaja meri" ('A Wide Sea Opens') concentrates on the Soviet film during glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s. The filmmakers were now free from censorship. Features interviews and film clips from directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Vadim Abdrashitov and Aleksandr Sokurov.

In 1943, a reconnaissance detachment led by Captain Migunko is airborne by parachute into German-occupied Crimea. By an unexpected coincidence, the reconnaissance group seizes a car with Abwehr employees heading to the sabotage school. One of them, a German, dies, and the second - the traitor Dvigubsky - out of fear for his life, agrees to pass off the Soviet intelligence officer as a murdered German officer.

Soviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village. He is a teacher, sent by the Communist Party to teach the ignorant masses. But the countrymen are to help him, and even to let their children go and "sleep" at school instead of giving a hand. There is only, Altynai, an orphan, to seem fascinated by the teacher and his knowledge.

The year is 1921. To save his mother and younger brothers from starvation, peasant boy Misha Dodonov, along with his friend Seryozha, goes to Tashkent for food.