Aleksandr Melnikov

This little known Russian movie, from the director of the following year's Oblomok imperii/ A Fragment of Empire is both surprising and accomplished. The mute cobbler is interested in the local girl but she is already pregnant by one of the gang of sailor suit toughs. The Soviet Youth League secretary's only assistance to her is a book about sex in Russian literature and things turn nasty. (imdb)

A Russian woman tells the tragic story of her life.

Gang boys from the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia are being tamed and educated at SHKID - Dostoevsky School. (imdb)

Tank units of the Red Army arrive at a small, provincial town for tactical training. One of the commanders rents a room from a local agricultural student and romance blossoms between the two.

Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic.

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.