Margarita Terekhova

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 pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, Bread, and other entities. (imdb)

In the film, the quiet, settled routine of a professor, whose best days are seemingly behind him, is upset when his volatile daughter comes for a visit and leaves her own daughter behind for him to raise. At the same time, one of his students challenges him to take up some scientific work he had abandoned earlier in his career. (allmovie.com)

A propaganda film about Lenin and Finnish independence

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)