Ivan Lapikov

Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history... (imdb)

The film is based on the eponymous book by Mikhail Sholokhov. Action is set in Russia in July of 1942 during the Second World War. The advancing Nazi Armies are approaching Stalingrad. The Russians are exhausted and outnumbered. But in a bloody battle the invading Nazi Armies are stopped at Stalingrad. (imdb)

Aliabiev Yuri is a journalist who has been working in the Letters to the Editor section for three years. The opportunity arises to travel to a small town in the Urals region to justify the letters to the newspaper that Anikina, a very caustic writer, writes. (filmaffinity.com)

Four young Germans in a Soviet POW camp decide to join the Red Army to hasten the end of the war. Their new identities elicit different reactions from Germans and Russians and are difficult to live up to when they are sent behind German lines. (DEFA Film Library)