Eisenstein’s final epic recounts the story of the 16th century Tsar Ivan IV and his struggles to establish his rule. The great director began...

The second part of the history of Ivan the Terrible. (Russ., Eng. & Heb. subt.)

In 1938, Eisenstein finally managed to complete a feature film with sound. The timely subject he chose was the Russian hero who drove back the...

In his most complex and personal work, Andrei Tarkovsky conveys the history of the Soviet Union. Melding the personal with the national and the...

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes 1958, the film opens with the last sunrise on the Soviet Union’s horizon before it enters WWII. Veronika is a...

A trio of young women come to Moscow during the late 1950s to seek work and love. Vladimir Menshov’s melodrama was a hit in the Soviet Union and...

Dubbed the “Russian answer to 2001: A Space Odyssey” in the Western press, “Solaris” is based on a novel by one of Eastern...

Stark, eerie, cerebral story of a man called Stalker, who guides two intellectuals through the “Zone”, a mysterious, forbidden wasteland. A slow,...

An engineer is sent to an isolated city to meet the director of the company. From the start he encounters strange occurrences and things become...

The Ascent is a stepping stone in Soviet cinema. Survival and sacrifice, the value of life and ideology are some of the subjects Schepitko tackles...

German-occupied Belarus, 1943. Klimov’s hyper-realistic masterpiece describes the atrocities of war as seen through the eyes of a 15-year-old...