The Shield and the Sword (Russian: Щит и меч, romanized: Shchit i metch) is a 1968 Soviet spy series in four parts directed by Vladimir Basov. Audio in Russian with English subtitles (click on CC). Part 2: https://rumble.com/v3x3hyy-the-shield-and-the-sword-film-series-1968-eng-sub-the-order-is-survive-part.html It is based on a novel by Vadim Kozhevnikov, who was Secretary of the Soviet Writers' Union. The title refers to the emblem of the Soviet NKVD; the story involves a spy who infiltrates the German SS during World War II. Plot Summary: The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military power, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the East. The Soviet military command suspects hostile intent from Germany and so arranges for its spies to infiltrate ranks of the German military and the SS. Alexander Belov (Lyubshin) is a Soviet spy, who travels from Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic to Nazi Germany under an alias of Volksdeutsche Johann Weiss. His mastery of the German language, steel nerves and an ability to manipulate others help him to use his connections in the SS to ascend the ladder of the Abwehr and then in the SD. He uses his position to identify sympathetic Germans, who help him to procure vital intelligence, and to help local resistance movements in their collective fight against Nazism. Director: Vladimir Basov Screenwriters: Vladimir Basov , Vadim Kozhevnikov Composer: Veniamin Basner Cinematographer : Timofey Lebeshev Cast & Characters: Stanislav Lyubshin as Alexander Belov / Johann Weiss Oleg Yankovsky as Heinrich Schwarzkopf Georgy Martyniuk as Aleksey Zubov / Alois Hagen Vladimir Basov as Bruno Alla Demidova as Angelika Buecher Juozas Budraitis as Dietrich Aleksey Glazyrin as Steinglitz Valentina Titova as Nina Natalia Velichko as Elsa Vladimir Balashov as Sonnenberg Algimantas Masiulis as Willi Schwarzkopf Nikolai Zasukhin as Papke Lev Polyakov as Gerlach Nikolay Grabbe as Deaf-mute Man Yelena Dobronravova as Deaf-mute Woman Vatslav Dvorzhetsky as Lansdorf Anatoly Kubatsky as Franz Nikolay Prokopovich as Schulz Kristina Lazar as Brigitte Valentin Smirnitsky as Andrey Basalyga / «Faza» Igor Bezyayev as «Rabbit» Vsevolod Safonov as «Nail» Vladimir Marenkov as «Ace» German Kachin as «Cartilage» Igor Yasulovich as «Goga» Radner Muratov as «Shaman» Konstantin Tyrtov as «Tit» Sergey Plotnikov as General Baryshev Inga Budkevich as Inga Uldis Dumpis as Luftwaffe Ace Helga Göring as Frau Dietmar Horst Preusker as Prof. Stutthoff Wojcech Duriasz as Jerzy Czyzewski Kurt-Mueller Reizner as Karl Kunert Silard Banki as Janos Molnar Vladimír Brabec as Jaromir Drobny Vladimir Osenev as Hitler Vyacheslav Dugin as Himmler Mikhail Sidorkin as Göring

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They Fought for Their Country, also known as They Fought For Their Motherland (Russian: Они сражались за Родину, romanized: Oni srazhalis' za Rodinu) is a 1975 Soviet war film in two parts, based on the eponymous novel written by Mikhail Sholokhov and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. Audio in Russian with Subtitles in; English, Italian, French, German, Spanish and Russian (click on CC for subtitles). It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. The film is the story of a Soviet platoon fighting a rearguard action during the German drive on Stalingrad. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. July 1942. Soviet forces are retreating in the face of a massive German onslaught towards Stalingrad. An infantry platoon is tasked with holding a vital hill in order to give their comrades time to cross the Don River and regroup. Cast & Characters: Vasily Shukshin as Piotr Lopakhin Vyacheslav Tikhonov as private Nikolay Strel'tsov Sergei Bondarchuk as private Ivan Zvyagintsev Georgi Burkov as private Alexandr Kopytovskij Yuri Nikulin as private Nekrasov Ivan Lapikov as starshina Poprischenko Nikolai Gubenko as Lieutenant Goloshchekov Andrei Rostotsky as gefreiter Kochetygov Nikolai Volkov as private Nikiforov Nikolai Shutko as cook Lisichenko Yevgeni Samojlov as Colonel Marchenko Nonna Mordyukova as Natalya Stepanovna Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina as Glasha Innokenti Smoktunovsky as Doctor Part 2: https://rumble.com/v6rcy0q-they-fought-for-their-country-part-2-film-1975-multisub.html

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War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir) is a 1966–1967 Soviet epic war drama film co-written and directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel. Audio in Russian with English subtitles (Click on CC for subtitles) Part 2: https://rumble.com/v43ph62-voyna-i-mirwar-and-peace-film-1966-1967-natasha-rostova-part-2-eng-sub.html Released in four installments throughout 1966 and 1967, the film starred Bondarchuk in the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov, alongside Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Ludmila Savelyeva, who depicted Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova. The film was produced by the Mosfilm studios between 1961 and 1967, with considerable support from the Soviet authorities and the Soviet Army which provided hundreds of horses and over ten thousand soldiers as extras. It was the most expensive film made in the Soviet Union. Upon its release, it became a success with audiences, selling approximately 135 million tickets in the USSR. War and Peace also won the Grand Prix in the Moscow International Film Festival, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Since its release, the film has often been considered the grandest epic film ever made, with many asserting its monumental production to be unrepeatable and unique in film history. Part 1: In Saint Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon. As Pierre's father recognizes him, Pierre attracts the attention of Hélène Kuragina and marries her, only to learn through rumor that she has been unfaithful and slept with Fyodor Dolokhov, an intimate of Hélène's brother Anatole. Meanwhile, Andrei takes part in the failed campaign in Austria, where he witnesses the Battle of Schöngrabern and the Battle of Austerlitz, is badly wounded and mistaken for dead. He returns to his father's estate just in time to witness his wife Lisa die during childbirth. Cast & Characters: Sergei Bondarchuk as Pierre Bezukhov Ludmila Savelyeva as Natasha Rostova Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Andrei Bolkonsky Boris Zakhava as Mikhail Kutuzov Anatoly Ktorov as Nikolai Bolkonsky Antonina Shuranova as Maria Bolkonskaya Oleg Tabakov as Nikolai Rostov Viktor Stanitsyn as Ilya Rostov Kira Golovko as Natalya Rostova Irina Skobtseva as Hélène Kuragina Vasily Lanovoy as Anatole Kuragin Irina Gubanova as Sonya Rostova Oleg Yefremov as Fyodor Dolokhov Eduard Martsevich as Boris Drubetskoy Aleksandr Borisov as Uncle Rostov Nikolai Rybnikov as Vasily Denisov Viktor Murganov as Alexander I of Russia Larisa Borisenko as Mlle. Bourienne Georgy Millyar as Morel Nonna Mordyukova as Anisya Anna Timiryova as old lady Boris Khmelnitsky as Bolkonsky's adjutant Valeri Yeremichev as Alexander Ostermann-Tolstoy Boris Smirnov as Vasili Kuragin Nikolai Tolkachyov as Kirill Bezukhov Dzhemma Firsova as Katishe Mamontova Mikhail Khrabrov as Platon Karataev Nikolay Trofimov as Tushin Vladislav Strzhelchik as Napoleon Jānis Grantiņš as Ludwig von Wolzogen Dz. Eizentāls as Carl von Clausewitz Galina Kravchenko as Marya Karagina Boris Molchanov as Louis-Nicolas Davout Lev Polyakov as Jacques Lauriston Rodion Aleksandrov as Alexander Balashov Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Lisa Bolkonskaya Giuli Chokhonelidze as Pyotr Bagration Vadim Safronov as Francis II Jean-Claude Ballard as Ramballe Yelena Tyapkina as Marya Dmitryevna Sergei Yermilov as Petya Rostov Nikita Mikhalkov as Petya Rostov's body double during hunting (uncredited) Herberts Zommers as Count Benningsen Nikolai Bubnov as Karl Mack von Leiberich Angelina Stepanova as Anna Scherer Erwin Knausmüller as Franz von Weyrother Mikhail Pogorzhelsky as Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly Leonid Vidavsky as Paisi Kaysarov Nikolai Grinko as Dessalles

Part 2: In the end of 1809, Natasha, the young daughter of a count attends her first ball at age 16. Andrei Bolkonsky falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but his father demands they wait. Andrei travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets the handsome Anatole Kuragin who falls in love with her and follows her with much passion. Overwhelmed Natasha decides she prefers him over Andrei. At the last minute, she regrets her choice and abandons her plans to elope with Anatole. However, Andrei has heard of her plans and declares their betrothal is over. Natasha suffers a nervous breakdown. Pierre, trying to calm her down, suddenly announces he loves her. Part 3: https://rumble.com/v442q82-voyna-i-mirwar-and-peace-film-1966-1967-the-year-1812-part-3-eng-sub.html

Part 3: In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Field Marshal Kutuzov is appointed by the Tsar to defend the land. Kutuzov asks Andrei to join him as a staff officer, but he requests a command in the field. Pierre approaches the battlefield of the upcoming confrontation between the armies during the Battle of Borodino, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Andrei's unit waits in the reserve, but he is hit by a shell and both he and Anatole suffer severe wounds. The battle involves hundreds of thousands of soldiers, thousands of horses, and hundreds of cannon firing from both sides. The French army forces the Russian army to retreat, leaving Moscow unprotected. Napoleon advances on Moscow. Part 4: https://rumble.com/v443to0-voyna-i-mirwar-and-peace-film-1966-1967-pierre-bezukhov-part-4-eng-sub.html

Part 4: As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced to retreat, he is marched for months with the Grande Armée, until being freed. The French army is defeated by Field Marshal Kutuzov in the Battle of Krasnoi. Andrei is recognized and is brought to his estate. He forgives Natasha on his deathbed. She reunites with Pierre as Moscow is being rebuilt.

Ivan the Terrible (Russian: Ivan Groznyy) is a two-part historical epic film about Ivan IV of Russia, written and directed by the filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. Audio in Russian with English subtitles. Part II: https://rumble.com/v3yhrig-ivan-the-terrible-part-ii-the-boyars-plot-film-1958-restored.html The film depicts Ivan the Terrible during the early part of his reign, facing betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. The first film, Ivan The Terrible, Part I, was filmed between 1942 and 1944, and released at the end of that year. The second film, Ivan The Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot, finished filming at Mosfilm in 1946. The unshown film received heavy criticism from the Central Committee of the Communist Party, calling the picture "anti-historical". The film was finally released in 1958, 10 years after Eisenstein's death. A third film, which began production in 1946, was halted when the decision was made not to release the second film. After Eisenstein's death in 1948, all footage from the film was confiscated, and it was rumored to have been destroyed (though some stills and a few brief shots still exist today). The cinematography was divided between Eduard Tisse, who shot the exteriors, and Andrei Moskvin, who filmed all interior scenes. The color sequences of Part Two were also filmed by Moskvin. The score for the films was composed by Sergei Prokofiev.

As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar. The second film, Ivan The Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot, finished filming at Mosfilm in 1946. But it was released only in 1958, 10 years after Eisenstein's death.

The Ascent (Russian: Voskhozhdeniye, literally - The Ascension) is a 1977 black-and-white Soviet drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko. Audio in Russian with English subtitles. The movie depicts the story of two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches. The movie was shot in January 1974 near Murom, Vladimir Oblast, Russia, in appalling winter conditions, as required by the script, based on the novel Sotnikov by Vasil Bykaŭ. It was Shepitko's last film before her death in a car accident in 1979. The film won the Golden Bear award at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival in 1977. It was also selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 50th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Cast & Characters: Boris Plotnikov as Sotnikov Vladimir Gostyukhin as Rybak Sergei Yakovlev as Village elder Lyudmila Polyakova as Demchikha Viktoriya Goldentul as Basya Meyer Anatoli Solonitsyn as Portnov, the collaborationist interrogator Maria Vinogradova as Village elder's wife Nikolai Sektimenko as Stas'

Boris Godunov is a 1986 drama film directed by and starring Sergei Bondarchuk. It is an adaptation of the 1825 play Boris Godunov, written by Alexander Pushkin. Audio in Russian with English subtitles (Click on CC). Part 2: https://rumble.com/v49h0nu-boris-godunov-film-1986-part-2.html The action takes place in Russia and Poland as the 16th century ends and the 17th century begins. The reign of Boris Godunov is depicted, his son Feodor, and the coming to power of False Dmitry I. After the death of the feeble-minded Tsar Fedor Ivanovich, son of Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov takes the throne, by the decision of the Zemsky Sobor, with the help of intrigues, alliances and the arrangement of his sister Irina's marriage to Tsarevich Feodor, gains great influence and power in the court. The picture was co-produced by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and West Germany. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Cast & Characters: Sergei Bondarchuk as Boris Godunov Alyona Bondarchuk as tsarevna Xenia Godunova Gennady Mitrofanov as fool for Christ Roman Filippov as Patriarch Job of Moscow Valery Storozhik as prince Dmitry Kurbsky Yuri Lazarev as Gavrila Pushkin Vladimir Sedov as Afanasy Pushkin Georgi Burkov as Barlaam Vadim Aleksandrov as Misael Irina Skobtseva as tavern hostess Kira Golovko as nurse of Xenia Lyudmila Korshakova as tsaritsa Maria Skuratova-Belskaya Fyodor Bondarchuk as tsarevitch Theodore Godunov Henryk Machalica as Jerzy Mniszech Olgierd Łukaszewicz as Mikołaj Czernikowski Marian Dziędziel as Adam Wiśniowiecki Vladimir Novikov as Semyon Godunov Valeriy Sheptekita as Father Superior of Chudov Monastery

Agony is a 1981 Soviet biographical film by Elem Klimov. Audio in Russian with English subtitles. Made c.1973-75 and released in Western and Central Europe in 1982, after protracted resistance from Soviet authorities. The film is notable for its rich, sometimes baroque style, its sumptuous recreation of episodes from the final year of Imperial Russia and the psychological portraits of Grigorij Rasputin and the Imperial family. The storyline follows the final months of 1916 up to the murder of Rasputin; some events have been telescoped into this time though they actually happened earlier, during the war. Rasputin's effect on people around him is shown as almost hypnotic, and the film avoids taking a moral stance towards him—breaking not only with Soviet history but also with how he was regarded by people near the court at the time, some of whom regarded him as a debilitating figure who disgraced the monarchy and hampered the war effort. Cast & Characters: Aleksei Petrenko as Grigori Rasputin Anatoli Romashin as emperor Nicholas II Velta Līne as empress Alexandra Feodorovna Alisa Freindlich as Anna Vyrubova Aleksandr Romantsov as Felix Yusupov Yuri Katin-Yartsev as Vladimir Purishkevich Leonid Bronevoy as Ivan Manasevich-Manuilov Pavel Pankov as Manus Mickhail Danilov as Mikhail M. Andronikov Mikhail Svetin as Terekhov Boris Romanov as Balashov Lyudmila Polyakova as Praskovya Fyodorovna, Rasputin's wife Afanasi Trishkin as Maklakov Part 2: https://rumble.com/v2e81wk-agony-the-life-and-death-of-rasputin-part-ii-film-1981.html

Ballad of a Soldier (Russian: Ballada o soldate), is a 1959 Soviet film directed by Grigory Chukhray and starring Vladimir Ivashov and Zhanna Prokhorenko. Audio in Russian with English subtitles. While set during World War II, Ballad of a Soldier is not primarily a war film. It recounts, within the context of the turmoil of war, various kinds of love: the romantic love of a young couple, the committed love of a married couple, and a mother's love of her child, as a Red Army soldier tries to make it home during a leave, meeting several civilians on his way and falling in love. The film was produced at Mosfilm and won several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film From Any Source and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Cast & Characters: Vladimir Ivashov as Private Alyosha Skvortsov Zhanna Prokhorenko as Shura Antonina Maksimova as Alyosha's mother Nikolai Kryuchkov as the general Yevgeni Urbansky as Vasya Elza Lezhdey as Vasya's wife Aleksandr Kuznetsov as Gavrilkin Yevgeni Teterin as The lieutenant Valentina Markova as Liza (Pavlov's wife) Marina Kremnyova as Zoya (neighbor girl) Vladimir Pokrovsky as Pavlov's invalid father Georgi Yumatov as Sergeant giving bars of soap Gennadi Yukhtin as Private Seryozha Pavlov Valentina Telegina as Old woman truck driver Lev Borisov as Joking soldier on train Yevgeny Yevstigneyev as Truck driver The two lead actors, Ivashov and Prokhorenko, were both only nineteen years old and did not have much acting experience. Both would go on to long careers in cinema.

Come and See (Russian: Idi i smotri) is a 1985 Soviet directed by Elem Klimov and starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova. Audio Russian with English subtitles. Its screenplay, written by Klimov and Ales Adamovich, is based on the 1978 book I Am from the Fiery Village (original title: Ya iz ognennoj derevni, 1977), of which Adamovich was a co-author. Klimov had to fight eight years of censorship from the Soviet authorities before he could be allowed to produce the film in its entirety. The film's plot focuses on the Nazi German occupation of Belarus, and the events as witnessed by a young Belarusian partisan teenager named Flyora, who—against his mother's wishes—joins the Belarusian resistance movement, and thereafter depicts the Nazi atrocities and human suffering inflicted upon the Eastern European villages' populace. The film mixes hyper-realism with an underlying surrealism, and philosophical existentialism with poetical, psychological, political and apocalyptic themes. Come and See received generally positive critical reception upon release, and received the FIPRESCI prize at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. It has since come to be considered one of the greatest films of all time.

The Cranes Are Flying (Russian: Летят журавли, translit. Letyat zhuravli) is a 1957 Soviet war drama film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov at Mosfilm, written by Viktor Rozov, and starring Aleksey Batalov and Tatiana Samoilova. Audio in Russian with English subtitles. The film depicts the cruelty and the damage done to the Soviet psyche as a result of the Second World War, which was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. The film had a profound impact on Soviet cinema. At the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Palme d'Or, the only Soviet film to ever do so (in 1946, The Turning Point was one of eleven films awarded the Grand Prix, the predecessor of the Palme d'Or). Tatiana Samoilova received a Special Mention for her performance. At the 12th British Academy Film Awards, the film was nominated for Best Film from any Source, and Tatiana Samoilova was nominated for Best Foreign Actress. Cast & Characters; Tatiana Samoilova as Veronika Aleksey Batalov as Boris Vasili Merkuryev as Fyodor Ivanovich Aleksandr Shvorin as Mark Svetlana Kharitonova as Irina Konstantin Nikitin as Volodya Valentin Zubkov as Stepan Antonina Bogdanova as Grandmother Boris Kokovkin as Tyernov Yekaterina Kupriyanova as Anna Mikhajlovna Valentina Ananina as Lyuba Valentina Vladimirova as Soldatka Olga Dzisko as Dasha Leonid Knyazev as Sachkov Georgiy Kulikov as Anatoliy Kuzmin Daniil Netrebin as Raneyy Aleksandr Popov as Borya Irina Preys as Antonina Monastyrskaya Nikolay Smorchkov as Zakharov

Alexander Nevsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Не́вский) is a 1938 Soviet historical drama film directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Audio in Russian with English and Italian subtitles (Click on CC). The film depicts the attempted invasion of Novgorod in the 13th century by the Teutonic Knights of the Holy Roman Empire and their defeat by Prince Alexander, known popularly as Alexander Nevsky (1220–1263). Eisenstein made the film in association with Dmitri Vasilyev and with a script co-written with Pyotr Pavlenko. It was produced by Goskino via the Mosfilm production unit, with Nikolai Cherkasov in the title role and a musical score by Sergei Prokofiev. Alexander Nevsky was the first and most popular of Eisenstein's three sound films. Eisenstein, Pavlenko, Cherkasov and Abrikosov were awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941 for the film. Alexander Nevsky is less experimental in its narrative structure than Eisenstein's previous films; it tells one story with a single narrative arc and focuses on one main character. The special effects and cinematography were some of the most advanced at the time. The film climaxes in the half-hour Battle of the Ice, propelled by Prokofiev's ominous, rousing, triumphant musical narrative, a sequence that has served as a model for epic movie battles ever since (e.g., Henry V, Spartacus, The Empire Strikes Back). This climactic set piece was the first to be filmed and, since it was shot during a blazing hot summer on a location outside Moscow, cinematographer Eduard Tisse had to take extraordinary steps to render a wintry landscape, including: use of a filter to suggest winter light, painting all the trees light blue and dusting them with chalk, creating an artificial horizon out of sand, and constructing simulated ice sheets out of asphalt and melted glass, supported by floating pontoons that were deflated on cue so that the ersatz ice sheets would shatter under the weight of the Teutonic knights according to pre-cut patterns. The creation of Alexander Nevsky was a collaboration in the fullest sense of the word: some of the film was shot to Prokofiev's music and some of Prokofiev's music was composed to Eisenstein's footage. The strong and technically innovative collaboration between Eisenstein and Prokofiev in the editing process resulted in a match of music and imagery that remains a standard for filmmakers. In 1978, the film was included in the world's 100 best motion pictures according to an opinion poll conducted by the Italian publishing house Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Cast & Characters: Nikolay Cherkasov as Prince Alexander Nevsky Nikolay Okhlopkov as Vasili Buslaev Andrei Abrikosov as Gavrilo Oleksich Dmitry Orlov as Ignat, the master armorer Vasili Novikov as Pavsha, a voivode of Pskov Nikolai Arsky as Domash Tverdislavich, a Novgorod boyar Varvara Massalitinova as Amelfa Timoferevna, Buslay's Mother Valentina Ivashova as Olga Danilovna, a maid of Novgorod Aleksandra Danilova as Vasilisa, a maid of Pskov Vladimir Yershov as Hermann von Balk, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Sergei Blinnikov as Tverdilo, the traitor of Pskov Ivan Lagutin as Anani, a Monk Lev Fenin as the Archbishop Naum Rogozhin as the Black-Hooded Monk

The Battle of Stalingrad is a 1949 two-part Soviet war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta. Audio in Russian with English and German subtitles (click on CC for subtitles). The film is the last of the 'Artistic Documentaries', a series of propaganda epics that recreated the history of the Second World War with a Stalinist interpretation of the events. Cast & Characters: Aleksei Dikiy – Joseph Stalin Maksim Shtraukh – Vyacheslav Molotov Viktor Khokhryakov – Georgy Malenkov Mikhail Kvarelashvili – Lavrentiy Beria Nikolai Dorokhin – Nikita Khrushchev Vladimir Solovyov – Mikhail Kalinin Yuri Tolubeyev – Andrei Zhdanov Nikolai Ryzhov – Lazar Kaganovich Garri Mushegyan – Anastas Mikoyan Mikhail Derzhavin – Kliment Voroshilov Yuri Shumsky – General Aleksandr Vasilevsky Vasili Merkuryev – General Nikolay Voronov Boris Livanov – General Konstantin Rokossovsky Nikolai Kolesnikov – General Andrey Yeryomenko Nikolay Simonov – General Vasily Chuikov Vasily Orlov – General Nikolay Krylov Sergei Brzhesky – General Aleksandr Rodimtsev Nikolai Plotnikov – Commissioner Gurov Boris Smirnov – Lieutenant Kaleganov Leonid Knyazev – Sergeant Yakov Pavlov Vladimir Golovin – General Nikolai Vatutin Aleksei Krasnopolsky – General Nikolai Trufanov Mikhail Nazvanov – Colonel Ivan Lyudnikov Nikolai Kryuchkov – Lieutenant Ivanov Aleksandr Antonov – Colonel Popov Nikolay Cherkasov – Franklin D. Roosevelt Viktor Stanitsyn – Winston Churchill/General Fyodor Tolbukhin Konstantin Mikhailov – W. Averell Harriman Mikhail Astangov – Adolf Hitler Mikhail Garkavi – Hermann Göring Nikolai Komissarov – Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel Boris Svoboda – General Alfred Jodl Nikolai Rybnikov – Field Marshal Maximilian von Weichs Vladimir Vsevolodov – General Arthur Schmidt Vladimir Gaidarov – Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus Yevgeny Kaluzhsky – General Wilhelm Adam (first film) Nikolai Nikolayevsky – General Wilhelm Adam (second film) Vladimir Chernyavsky – General Kurt Zeitzler Rostislav Plyatt – General Hermann Hoth Sergei Blinnikov – Alexander Poskrebyshev (uncredited) Yuri Levitan – Narrator

Wings (Russian: Крылья, tr. Krylya) is a 1966 Soviet black and white drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko, her first feature film made after graduating from the All-Russian State Institute for Cinematography. Audio in Russian with English subtitles (hardcoded). SD Version with Italian subtitles: https://rumble.com/v4eqx56-le-ali-film-1966-ita-sub.html A fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot Nadezhda Petrovna. The 41 year old Nadezhda Petrukhina (Maya Bulgakova), a once heroic World War II Soviet fighter pilot, is now living a quiet, but disappointingly ordinary life as a school principal at a construction-oriented trade school. Beloved and revered by the generation that experienced the Great Patriotic War, Nadezdha struggles to connect with the generation that followed hers. Integration of wartime Messerschmitt Bf 109 combat footage with live-action footage of Yakovlev Yak-9 fighter aircraft were used in a dream sequence Cast & Characters: Maya Bulgakova as Nadezhda Petrukhina Zhanna Bolotova as Tanya Panteleimon Krymov as Pavel Gavrilovich Leonid Dyachkov as Mitya Grachov Vladimir Gorelov as Igor Yury Medvedev as Boris Grigoryevich Nikolay Grabbe as Kostya Shuvalov Zhanna Aleksandrova as Zinka Sergei Nikonenko as Sergei Bystryakov Rimma Markova as Shura Arkady Trusov as Morozov Olga Gobzeva as Journalist

Le ali (Крылья) è un film del 1966 diretto da Larisa Efimovna Šepit'ko. Audio in Russo con sottotitoli in Italiano (cliccate su CC). HD version with English subtitles: https://rumble.com/v4eqaf3-wingskrylya-film-1966-eng-sub.html Un ritratto affascinante e umano di Nadezhda Petrukhina (conosciuta anche come Nadya), ex pilota di combattimento e ora direttrice di un collegio in Unione Sovietica. Nadya vive ora una vita tranquilla, ma ordinaria, come preside di una scuola professionale orientata all'edilizia. Amata e venerata dalla generazione che ha vissuto la Grande Guerra Patriottica, Nadya fatica a connettersi con la nuova generazione. L'integrazione delle riprese di combattimento del Messerschmitt Bf 109 in tempo di guerra con riprese dal vivo dell'aereo da caccia Yakovlev Yak-9 è stata utilizzata in una sequenza di sogno. Interpreti & Personaggi: Wings (Russian: Крылья, tr. Krylya) is a 1966 Soviet black and white drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko, her first feature film made after graduating from the All-Russian State Institute for Cinematography. Audio in Russian with English subtitles. A fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot Nadezhda Petrovna. The 41 year old Nadezhda Petrukhina (Maya Bulgakova), a once heroic World War II Soviet fighter pilot, is now living a quiet, but disappointingly ordinary life as a school principal at a construction-oriented trade school. Beloved and revered by the generation that experienced the Great Patriotic War, Nadezdha struggles to connect with the generation that followed hers. Integration of wartime Messerschmitt Bf 109 combat footage with live-action footage of Yakovlev Yak-9 fighter aircraft were used in a dream sequence. Cast & Characters: Maya Bulgakova as Nadezhda Petrukhina Zhanna Bolotova as Tanya Panteleimon Krymov as Pavel Gavrilovich Leonid Dyachkov as Mitya Grachov Vladimir Gorelov as Igor Yury Medvedev as Boris Grigoryevich Nikolay Grabbe as Kostya Shuvalov Zhanna Aleksandrova as Zinka Sergei Nikonenko as Sergei Bystryakov Rimma Markova as Shura Arkady Trusov as Morozov Olga Gobzeva as Journalist HD version with English subtitles: https://rumble.com/v4eqaf3-wingskrylya-film-1966-eng-sub.html

Suvorov (Russian: Суворов) is a 1941 Soviet film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller. Audio in Russian with English subtitles. The film is based on the life of Russian general Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (1729 – 1800), one of the few great generals in history who never lost a battle. The film premiered in Russia 23 January 1941 (i.e., before the German attack). It was released as General Suvorov in the USA. In 1941 Pudovkin, Doller, Cherkasov-Sergeyev, and Khanov received the Stalin Prize for the film. Cast & Characters: Nikolai Cherkasov-Sergeyev as Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov Aleksandr Khanov as Platonych Mikhail Astangov as Aleksandr Andreyevich Arakcheyev Apollon Yachnitsky as Pavel I Georgi Kovrov as Prokhor S. Kiligin as Pyotr Bagration Vsevolod Aksyonov as Meshchersky Aleksandr Antonov as Colonel Tyurin, commander of the Azov regiment Aleksandr Khvylya Galina Kravchenko as Lopukhina (uncredited) Anatoli Solovyov

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (Albanian: Skënderbeu; Russian: Великий воин Албании Скандербег, romanized: Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg) is a 1953 Soviet-Albanian biopic directed by Sergei Yutkevich. Audio in Russian (original version) with English subtitles. Albanian version (dubbed) restored, with English subtitles: https://www.bitchute.com/video/5pTQabHCQBae/ The film was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival where it earned the International Prize. Yutkevich also earned the Special Mention award for his direction. The film is a biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg (1405–1468), widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades. Cast & Characters: Akaki Khorava as George Kastriot/Skanderbeg (dubbed in Albanian by Lec Bushati) Nikolai Timofeyev as Italian poet Vladimir Solovyov as Franciscan friar Boris Tenin as Din Besa Imami as Donika Kastrioti Adivie Alibali as Mamica Naim Frashëri as Pal Muzaka Oleg Zhakov as Tanush Thopia Sergo Zakariadze as Laonikus Vladimir Belokurov as Đurađ Branković, Serbian King Sergei Kurilov as Lekë Zaharia Semyon Sokolovsky as Hamza Kastrioti Veriko Anjaparidze as Dafina Georgy Chernovolenko as Marash Alexander Vertinsky as Francesco Foscari, Doge of Venice Georgy Rumyantsev as Lekë Dukagjini Marie Logoreci as countess Vahram Papazian as Murad II (voiced by Yakov Belenky) Nodar Şaşıqoğlu as Mehmed II Yury Yakovlev as warrior

Sampo (Russian: Сампо) is a 1959 Soviet–Finnish fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko. Audio in Finnish with English subtitles (Click on CC). The film is based loosely on the events depicted in the Finnish national epic Kalevala. The people of Kalevala are a peaceful hard working people, they have everything they need and want, bar the mystical Sampo, a magical mill which will make grain, salt and gold and give prosperity to whoever possesses it. The only person in Kalevala able to make a Sampo is the smith Ilmarinen, however he cannot make it until his sister Annikki has fallen in love. Annikki eventually falls in love with the young hard working Lemminkäinen. All is not perfect, however. There is a dark dismal land called Pohjola ruled over by a wicked witch called Louhi, and she wishes for a Sampo, but her wizards are unable to forge one. Each scene was shot a total of four times (using two cameras), as the film was produced in both Russian and Finnish (with dialogue dubbed afterwards) and in both standard and anamorphic widescreen aspect ratios. The film used the Sovcolor color film process. Sampo was the first Finnish film to feature surround sound, with four channels. In the United States, it was released in an edited version, The Day the Earth Froze, by American International Pictures as a double feature with Conquered City. This version was later featured in a 1993 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The US version received 24 minutes of cuts, decreasing the 91 minute runtime to 67 minutes; its credits were heavily altered: the original credits were replaced with English language titles. Cast & Characters: Andris Ošiņš as Lemminkäinen Eve Kivi as Annikki Anna Orochko as Louhi Ivan Voronov as Ilmarinen Urho Somersalmi as Väinämöinen Ada Vojtsik as Mother of Lemminkäinen Georgi Millyar as Sorcerer Mikhail Troyanovsky as Soothsayer

Lenin in October is a 1937 Soviet biographical drama film directed by Mikhail Romm and Dmitri Vasilyev and starring Boris Shchukin, Nikolay Okhlopkov and Vasili Vanin. Made as a Soviet-realist propaganda work by the GOSKINO at the Mosfilm studio, it portrays the activities of Lenin at the time of the October Revolution. All Stalin scenes were expunged from the film for its reissue in 1958. The movie was followed by Lenin in 1918, which was made two years later. Cast & Characters: Boris Shchukin as Vladimir Lenin Nikolay Okhlopkov as Vasily, bolshevik and Lenin's bodyguard Vasili Vanin as Matveyev, bolshevik Vladimir Pokrovsky as Felix Dzerzhinsky Nikolai Arsky as Blinov, worker Yelena Shatrova as Anna Mikhailovna Klavdiya Korobova as Natasha, Vasily's wife Nikolai Svobodin as Valerian Rutkovsky, the Social Revolutionary Viktor Ganshin as Zhukov, the Menshevik Vladimir Vladislavsky as Karnaukhov Aleksandr Kovalevsky as Alexander Kerensky Nikolai Sokolov as Mikhail Rodzianko Nikolai Chaplygin as Kirilin Ivan Lagutin as Filimonov Semyon Goldshtab as Joseph Stalin (in this version of movie)

Kutuzov (Кутузов) is a 1943 Soviet drama film directed by Vladimir Michajlovič Petrov. Audio in Russian with English subtitles. The film of 1943 shows the Russian view of the main events of the Patriotic War of 1812. The main points are Kutuzov's character and warfare, the major battles, the soldiers and the major errors of Napoleon. - "delaying operation" started by Mikhail Bogdanovich Barclay de Tolly and continued by Kutuzov - "scorched earth" by burning Moscow - "guerrilla warfare" on horseback against French supply lines by the Cossacks - "total war" against French foraging by peasants - "no peacemaking with Napoleon" by Alexander I of Russia - Battle of Borodino - Battle of Maloyaroslavets - Battle of the Berezina - French invasion of Russia (Logistics) Kutuzov is a biopic about Prince Kutuzov, the Russian Field marshal who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée in a brutal war of attrition. Shot in 1943 and released to Soviet audiences in March 1944, the film served to rouse up the Soviet people in their push back against invading Nazi Germany. The War of 1812 and WWII held much in common for the Russian and Soviet people. In fact, in Russian they are called the Patriotic War and Great Patriotic War respectively. Both Kutuzov and Stalin pursued a scorched earth policy, designed to make their invading foe’s supply lines as difficult to support as possible. In Kutuzov, the eponymous Field marshal is depicted as a master strategist, capable of completely understanding the enemy, and trusted implicitly by his men. When Soviet citizens watched the movie, there was a clear message – that they should trust the competence of their leaders completely to end the war for good. Cast & Characters: Aleksei Dikij as Prince Kutuzov Semyon Mezhinsky as Napoleon Bonaparte Yevgeniy Kaluzhsky as Marshal Berthier (as Ye. Kaluzhsky) Sergo Zakariadze as Prince Bagration (as S. Zakariadze) Nikolai Okhlopkov as Gen. Barclay de Tolly Sergei Blinnikov as Platov, bearded Russian officer (as S. Blinnikov) Mikhail Pugovkin as Fedya (as M. Pugovkin)

Dersu Uzala is a 1975 Soviet-Japanese film directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa, his only non-Japanese-language film and his only 70mm film. Audio in Russian with English subtitles. The film is based on the 1923 memoir Dersu Uzala (which was named after the native trapper) by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, about his exploration of the Sikhote-Alin region of the Russian Far East over the course of multiple expeditions in the early 20th century. Shot almost entirely outdoors in the Russian Far East wilderness, the film explores the theme of a native of the forests who is fully integrated into his environment, leading a style of life that will inevitably be destroyed by the advance of civilization. It is also about the growth of respect and deep friendship between two men of profoundly different backgrounds, and about the difficulty of coping with the loss of capability that comes with old age. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the Golden Prize and the Prix FIPRESCI at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival, and other awards. It was also a box office hit, selling more than 21 million tickets in the Soviet Union and Europe. Cast & Characters: Yury Solomin as Vladimir Arsenyev Maxim Munzuk as Dersu Uzala Vladimir Kremena as Turtygin Alexander Pyatkov as Olenev Svetlana Danilchenko as Anna Suimenkul Chokmorov as Chzhan Bao

Hamlet is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of William Shakespeare's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. Audio in Russian with English subtitles. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Iosif Shapiro, and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet. Kozintsev's film is faithful to the architecture of the play, but the text (based on Pasternak's translation) is heavily truncated, achieving a total running time of 2 hours 20 minutes (from a play which can last as long as four hours in full performance). The opening scene of the play is cut entirely, along with scenes 1 and 6 of Act IV, but other scenes are represented in sequence, even though some are drastically shortened. Unlike Laurence Olivier's 1948 film, which removed most of the play's political dimension to focus on Hamlet's inner turmoil, Kozintsev's Hamlet is as political and public as it is personal. Kozintsev observed of his predecessor: "Olivier cut the theme of government, which I find extremely interesting. I will not yield a single point from this line." Where Olivier had narrow winding stairwells, Kozintsev has broad avenues, peopled with ambassadors and courtiers. The castle's role as a prison is emphasised. Ophelia in an iron farthingale symbolises the fate of the sensitive and intelligent in the film's tough political environment. When the film appeared in 1964, it received a number of prizes both in the Soviet Union and abroad. Kozintsev cast some actors whose first language was not Russian (the Latvian Elza Radziņa as Gertrude, and Estonians Rein Aren, Ants Lauter and Aadu Krevald) so as to bring shades of other traditions into his film. But for the central role, he chose the Russian actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky who had extensive experience in the theatre. Traditional in appearance, he nevertheless had an individual manner of acting, characterised by reserve as well as nervous intensity, which distinguished the film from other versions. Cast & Characters: Prince Hamlet — Innokenty Smoktunovsky Claudius — Mikhail Nazvanov Gertrude — Elza Radziņa Polonius — Yuri Tolubeyev Laertes — Stepan Oleksenko Ophelia — Anastasiya Vertinskaya Horatio — Vladimir Erenberg Rosencrantz — Igor Dmitriev Guildenstern — Vadim Medvedev Fortinbras — Aadu Krevald