Yuli Raizman

A war veteran returns to his village to take part in its reconstruction but ends up butting heads with the committee chairman,

Romantic drama. In 1939, as the air raid sirens sound over Moscow, a young man, Alyosha, falls in love with a telegraph operator called Mashenka. When she discovers he is ill, she watches over him. But at a party, when Alyosha pays too much attention to another girl, Mashenka is forced to realise her love is an illusion.

Mikhail Ulyanov is the Bergmanesque protagonist of the Russian Private Life. A government-appointed factory executive, Ulyanov is reduced to quivering confusion when he is dismissed. Recovering from this blow, he decides to review and realign his life. In so doing, he discovers that there's plenty left in the world to make life worth living. Private Life was nominated for the "best foreign picture" Academy Award in 1983. (allmovie.com)

The romantic friendship between two teenagers is spoiled by suspicion and sneers of other people and the girl leaves the town. (bfi)

Drama set to the Russian civil war of 1918 (themoviedb.org)

Early Soviet prison camp depiction set to the years of Revolution.

Over 40 Byelorussian and 1st Ukrainian Army cameramen contributed footage of this remarkable documentary of the fall of Berlin, including captured German footage.