Nina Ruslanova

Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1952 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot". (imdb)

Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human's hypophysis into a dog's brain. Couple of weeks later the dog became "human looking". The main question is "Is anybody who is looking like a man, A REAL MAN?" (imdb)

The mostly black-and-white film begins with a present-day color sequence, then reverts to monochrome and the freezing winter of 1935, when the narrator was nine years old. The boy lived in an apartment with his father and two other men, Police Chief Ivan Lapshin and his officious underling... (All Movie Guide)

In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women. (oscar.com)

Pavel and Pavelina leave their rural countryside homes and move to Moscow to find work. Once there, they find that urban life is not what they thought it was and have to endure bitter hardships as they try to find work and places to live. The two meet for the first time during a fight at a bar, when they are arrested by police along with others in the building. (imdb)

A group of high school students living their life in Stalin' time one year before the Nazi invasion in 1941. As the action goes by we see the exploration of life of that time from the typical young people concerns like first love to the reality of dictatorship, life and death, and what is truth.

Four friends go on a car trip from Moscow to Odessa, to celebrate their friend's birthday, attend a rock concert and escape from everyday routine.

Nadja, a country girl moves to the city and becomes Valya's maid. Valya, a member of the District Soviet, does not know that Nadja fell in love with Valya's currently absent husband. (imdb)

Nina is in love with a priest and she is prepared to make any sacrifices to gain his love. The girl doesn't know that the object of her desires is far from being ideal, and that there was a crime in his past. (imdb)

Kira Muratova's Chekhovian Motifs combines the veteran director's fascination with the disjointed, "dark" side of social (especially family) relations with her penchant for formal experimentation, this time involving classic literary/dramatic sources.

A comedic, folk story about a soldier who betters himself by finding a golden set of cards.

Russian hospital doctor, Margarita has long been hoplessly in love with Grigori, an old friend but also a married man. When his mother unexpectedly dies, Grigori asks Margarita for a death certificate, confirming that his mother died of natural causes. (BFI)

Olga lives with her five-year-old son, and dreams of a happy family life with Vadim, the man she loves. But Vadim is married, and their rare hasty meetings fill Olga with bitter feelings of resentment. One day a prince charming, Herbert, appears in Olga's life. He is intelligent, handsome, and single. What would be her choice? (fusionwings.com)

Michail helps out Nicolai and Lubia giving them a ride to a nearby construction site. They will work there to build a new town and factory. (imdb)

A driver is traveling from Italy to Russia in a brand new Fiat Tempra, mesmerizing women along the way. He has to use car's full potential and features when he picks up a pregnant hitchhiker in the tough Russian winter. (imdb)

A judge is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with his new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry for his father and sympathizes with his loneliness.

The investigator Sukharev had to face an unusual case. Condemned Makaretsev confesses in commitment a murder long time ago. During an investigation it turned out that the murder was committed by a group of individuals but others deny their being guilty. Sukharev discovers that it was not the murder as the victim is still alive. And now the trial has to reach a verdict to people who confessed in what they did not commit in fact. (megogo)

A French baron Paul travels to Russia to find the woman whom he had been in correspondence. On arriving to a small Russian town he finds out that Ania had been helping his friend Irina to translate letters which Irina subsequently has been sending to Paul. At this New Year's Day love sparks in his heart as he tries to win her hand. (imdb)