Oleg Zhakov

A biopic of Sergei Kirov depicting life in Russia in the 30s and 30s

The true story of the seven Cervi brothers, Italian farmers who joined the resistance movement against nazi-fascism.

The film tells about the Decembrists' revolt in the south of Russia. (imdb)

U ozera (released in English speaking countries as "By The Lake"), the 1970 Sergei Gerasimov Russian relationship melodrama starring Oleg Zhakov, Vasili Shukshin, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Nikolai Yeryomenko, and Valentina Telichkina (emovieposter.com)

The first film of a tetralogy about the fate of experienced agent, the son of a Russian emigrant Count Tulyev. The resident must obtain the information on the developments in the nuclear power industry, but security officers trace him - and he commits a fatal error. (megogo)

A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.

In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment (made up of communist Reds) defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces. (Fiona Kelleghan)

A Jewish surgeon, a war veteran, brillant scientist and respected citizen becomes a victim of the mad anti-semitic purge and stripped of all his possessions and discarded by the hospital. He is pressed back into service to perform an operation on a Nazi leader, and then machine-gunned as a reward. (Les Adams)

A Russian doctor is invited to work at Afghanistan’s top hospital during the war, and sees firsthand the carnage caused by the Islamist mujaheddin as they attempt to overthrow the socialist government.