7.9
Trial on the Road
IMDb: 7.9 1971 96 min
A Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis. Filmed in 1971, but “shelved” until 1986. ...
7.7
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
IMDb: 7.7 1985 95 min
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin’s Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to ...
7.8
Twenty Days Without War
IMDb: 7.8 1977 101 min
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the ...
7.5
The Seventh Companion
IMDb: 7.5 1968 89 min
German apparently disavowed this, his first film, because of his co-director Grigori Aranov’s more classical approach (and his kowtowing to ...
7.5
Khrustalyov, My Car!
IMDb: 7.5 1998 147 min
Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin’s Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a ...
6.7
Hard to Be a God
IMDb: 6.7 2013 177 min
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find ...