Vasiliy Shukshin

This is Andrei Tarkovsky's first student film.

The film is based on the eponymous book by Mikhail Sholokhov. Action is set in Russia in July of 1942 during the Second World War. The advancing Nazi Armies are approaching Stalingrad. The Russians are exhausted and outnumbered. But in a bloody battle the invading Nazi Armies are stopped at Stalingrad. (imdb)

Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life. (imdb)

A couple travels from their home in the countryside to the big city and realizes the differences in the lifestyle.

Yegor (Vasili Shukshin) is an orphan who grew up in a criminal gang. While he was free, he did not lose his innocent, joyful heart, but many years in prison have taken away his joy in living. The film opens on the occasion of his release from prison. Soon, he discovers love with a village peasant girl, Lyuba (Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina), who restores his will to live and fills him with an enthusiasm for rural life. Their idyll is short-lived, as his former associates will not leave him alone. (allmovie.com)

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)

U ozera (released in English speaking countries as "By The Lake"), the 1970 Sergei Gerasimov Russian relationship melodrama starring Oleg Zhakov, Vasili Shukshin, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Nikolai Yeryomenko, and Valentina Telichkina (emovieposter.com)

Epic about Cossacks in the Siberian province of Dauria. Cossacks are living in their village like one big family under the guidance of a strong leader - Ataman. (imdb)

At the end of the Second World War, Fedor is demobilized and returns home where he meets a homeless boy, small Fedor. (imdb)

Depicts the various stages of Operation Bagration during the summer of 1944. (imdb)