Boris Barnet

Yussuf and Aliosha are two shipwrecked sailor on an island in the Caspian Sea. They start working has sailor and mechanic for the fishboats of the "Lights of the Communism" kolkhoz. Here the two friends will fall in love for the beautiful Misha. (imdb)

In a series of stories about a small town and it's villagers at the outbreak of WWI. Some go to the war front while others fight for the Communist cause.

Natasha and her grandfather live in a cottage near Moscow, making hats for Madame Irène. Madame and her husband have told the housing committee that Natasha rents a room from them; this fiddle gives Madame's lazy husband a room for lounging. The local railroad clerk, Fogelev, loves Natasha but she takes a shine to Ilya, a clumsy student who sleeps in the train station... (imdb)

Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR. (imdb)

A country girl arrives in Moscow with a duck and has to adjust to the fast moving city life.

Impressionist Russian film of the Soviet revolution.

It's a story about two of the most famous Russian personages. They become friends, and then go along on the path of glory in parallel. (imdb)

An aging jockey at the Moscow Hippodrome talks to his granddaughter about coming to the big city.

et in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. (imdb)

A heroine of the people returns from working in the fields to great acclaim but trouble brews in her personal life.

Set in WWII, Boris Barnet's only hour-long pseudo-espionage film is a musical (with opera singing during the war scenes), a comedy, a love story, and a war movie--and everything is perfectly balanced and free. (Serge Bozon)

An academician spends his vacation not at a resort, but in a remote village. However, he did not manage to practice painting as he planned. He got involved in the villagers' life. (KG)

Soviet agent Fedotov must cross over into Nazi occupied Ukraine and steal the correspondences of a high ranking Nazi general with Hitler. (imdb)

The war deprived Annushka of her husband, home, but the simple Russian woman did not lose courage and managed to give her children a good upbringing. (Mosfilm)

During the Civil War in a port town lyric parties are organized where two local lyric poets Orlovsky and Tarasov are starring. When they are involved in the Civil War events Orlovsky joins the White Guards movement, and Tarasov fights on the side of the Reds (Red Army). Having been enlisted in Kotovsky's cavalry, he takes part in liberation of the town. Here he falls in love with Olya Danilova. (Mosfilm)

About the Stakhanov movement initiation in Donbass. Stepan Kulagin, a young miner, makes up his mind to change the old calculations and coal recovery standards. The elder generation, including the coal-mine director, take it with a pinch of salt. They provoke sabotage - an explosion at the coal mine. But in spite of everything the Stakhanov movement is supported by workers all over the country. (mosfilm)

Singers, dancers and musicians from the large wine kolkhoz "New Life" arrive in Kishinev to participate in a competition for amateur artists of the campaign... (KG)

A story about capitalistic corruption in a small village and the personal struggles of Anka (Vera Marinich) as she is pregnant and abandoned by her lover.

A girl, working in a German commandant's office, saves two wounded Russian pilots sacrificing her own life. (imdb)

A Polish patriot whose head is valued at five thousand marks by fascists. A desperate mother trying to find money for her ill child. A doctor and a jew. Occupied Poland and a terrible hopeless, desperate feeling. (KG)

After a short introduction with a boy leaving his mother, the young soldier is chosen to be part of a group to disclose and destroy a German pillbox. (KG)

The story of a young woman who, after her years at university in the city, returns to her hometown an engineer and begins work on a huge new power plant. She continues to supervise work on the plant throughout the war.