Comedy

The Girls is one of the most popular Soviet movies from the 1960s. This heartwarming movie is sometimes likened to Cinderella in the rural ...

White Sun of the Desert is one of the very best Soviet Westerns, or “Osterns” there is. The film revolves around the adventures of a ...

The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya “Afonya” was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character “Afonya” Borshev ...

Based on the vaudeville by M. Staritsky Svirid Petrovich Golokhvasty had his own barbershop in town and a reputation of a dandy. Once, after ...

A beautiful animation about a vulture who tries to teach an ostrich how to fly. Of course, this is not possible. And so, the story serves to ...

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears is a classic, Oscar-winning Soviet movie. It’s said to depict the famous Russian soul better than any ...

This charming rom-com gives a window onto life in a remote Siberian village. Vasia, who has never left the village, comes to spend a summer ...

A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family’s country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his ...

Stories from the lives of the tenants of the Moscow’s communal apartment: Kostik, who is a college student, lives with his aunt while ...

The story takes place on the desert planet “Pluke” in the “Kin-dza-dza” galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously ...

An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to ...

An insurance agent who moonlights as a car thief steals cars from various crooks, though never from the common people. He then sells the stolen ...

“Stars never leave their orbits”. The poor astronomy teacher got one more demonstration of this law when he met HER. SHE was ...

Created in 1983, this animated movie follows the plot of Armenian writer Ovanes Tumanyan’s fairy tale “Talking fish.” ...

Mimino (Мимино in Russian and მიმინო in Georgian) is a 1977 Soviet tragicomedy directed by Georgiy Daneliya. The film tells the story of a ...

The Irony of Fate – Russia and the former Soviet Union’s favorite New Year’s movie! The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (Ирония судьбы, ...

12 Chairs (12 стульев / Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a 1971 comedy by Leonid Gaidai. Its plot is an adaptation of the 1928 satirical novel of the same ...

Treasure Island (Остров сокровищ / Ostrov sokrovishch) is a really interesting Soviet animated film. The film originally came out in two parts: ...

Repentance is a Georgian film made by the masterful director, Tengiz Abuladze. Its name is მონანიება (Monanieba) in Georgian and Покаяние ...

Office Romance (Служебный роман / Sluzhebnyj roman) is a 1977 Soviet rom-com directed by Eldar Ryazanov. It is based on the play, Co-workers ...

An Ordinary Miracle (Обыкновенное чудо / Obyknovennoye chudo) is a 1978 Soviet film based on a play by Yevgeniy Shwartz. It’s a movie by ...

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (Кавказская пленница / Kavkazskaya plennitsa) is a 1967 Soviet comedy by prolific director, Leonid Gaidai. The title ...

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (aka Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future) is a 1973 Soviet sci-fi film directed by Leonid Gaidai. ...

Last Year’s Snow Was Falling (Падал прошлогодний снег / Padal proshlogodniy sneg) is a Soviet animation film directed by Aleksandr ...

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (В бой идут одни «старики» / V boy idut odni “stariki”) is a Ukrainian war movie directed by Leonid ...

Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (ცისფერი მთები ანუ დაუჯერებელი ამბავი / Tsisperi mtebi anu daujerebeli ambavi) is a Georgian comedy ...

Heart of a Dog (Собачье сердце / Sobachye syerdtsye) is a Soviet film directed by Vladimir Bortko in 1988. The film immediately achieved ...

Movie Background Once Upon a Dog is a Soviet cartoon directed by Edward Nazarov in 1982. The story takes place in a traditional Ukrainian ...

 Movie Background The Very Same Munchhausen (Тот самый Мюнхгаузен / Tot samyy Myunkhgauzen) is a Soviet two-part film from 1979. It is one of the ...

Movie background Gentlemen of Fortune (Джентльмены удачи / Dzhentlmeny udachi) is a 1971 film directed by Aleksandr Sery. It’s one of the ...

The Diamond Arm background The Diamond Arm (Бриллиантовая рука / Brilliantovaya ruka) is one of the most beloved Soviet comedies. It’s the ...

Operation Y is best known by Russian students as the first Russian movie they experience. It’s prolific director, Leonid Gaidai’s ...