Fortress of War

Fortress of War 2010

7.20

The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.

2010

In the Fog

In the Fog 2012

6.40

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.

2012

Sniper: Weapons of Retaliation

Sniper: Weapons of Retaliation 2009

6.00

This world war two story depicts the personal war between a Soviet sniper and a German sniper. Their feud continues after the war in Soviet occupied Germany. At the same time a Nazi rocket scientist continues his research while a Soviet secret police team arrives from Moscow to find hidden Nazi rocket research documents and rocket propulsion systems.

2009

Persian Lessons

Persian Lessons 2020

7.60

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.

2020

From Hell to Hell

From Hell to Hell 1997

2.20

Focuses on the lives of two married Polish couples (one Jewish, one Catholic) and the personal and social devastation wrought by the Holocaust and its aftermath.

1997

Game of Imagination

Game of Imagination 1995

1

Upon returning from a business trip, Pavel Antoshin learns from his wife that she wants to leave him. The man is shocked by this news, because it happened after twenty years of marriage. But Pavel was even more surprised that his wife offered him her girl friend instead.

1995

In August of 1944

In August of 1944 2001

6.30

The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.

2001

To Kill the Actor

To Kill the Actor 1998

1

Шесть лет назад он отчаянно вырвался отсюда, задыхаясь в узких стенах провинциального театра. Из актерского прошлого в новый коммерческий мир он взял только кличку «Лицедей». Но желанная личная свобода оказывается еще более призрачной. Ему надлежит стать разыгранной пешкой в чужой игре, где на кону огромные деньги, а ставка - жизнь. Заблудившемуся человеку суждено сделать круг. Лицедею приходится выживать именно здесь - в стенах некогда покинутого театра, с помощью людей, с легкостью забытых им когда-то...

1998

Dnieper Line

Dnieper Line 2009

4.00

The basis for the plot of the film "Dnieper line" was a real historical event - the heroic defense of Mogilev. The action takes place in the Great Patriotic War, when troops of the German fascist invaders swiftly moving through the territory of the Soviet Union. Units guarding the border Dnieper abroad, ordered - to make the city impregnable fortress. intertwined fates of the heroes soundtrack unexpected encounters and tragic parting ... Zoe meets Sintsov surrounded by the Germans in the city, his first love ... The Divisional Commander, who understands all the doom situation in which the defenders were Dnipro turn, makes every effort to keep the offensive. Mogilev - the same as the Brest Fortress, only to enormous proportions. Force civilians and soldiers of the Red Army offensive the Germans were stopped here for three weeks.

2009

Crystal Swan

Crystal Swan 2018

6.80

Minsk, Belarus, 1996. Velya, an aspiring DJ, wants to move to Chicago to make her dreams come true, but bureaucracy, a phone line and the human condition will put obstacles in her way that will be difficult to avoid.

2018

Anastasiya Slutskaya

Anastasiya Slutskaya 2003

4.50

The action takes place at the beginning of the 16th century. The rich Belarusian lands that are part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, located at the intersection of trade routes, are attacked by Tatars. With rapid raids, the Crimean cavalry reaches all Belarusian cities without exception. The conquerors stormed the fortress, robbed, stole the population into slavery, leaving behind ashes. On the way, the troops of the Crimean Tatars, among the few who have not yet been defeated, stand up to the brave squad and brave residents of the city of Slutsk, whose defense after the death of the husband of Prince Semyon Olelkovich was led by Princess Anastasia Slutskaya.

2003

Sketch on the Monitor

Sketch on the Monitor 2001

1

Beautiful stories end with a wedding, and the ugly ones begin after it. At least, this is the opinion of a young writer, who went to a wedding celebration and learned three stories there: about a lonely physicist, about a doctor trying to start a new life, and about a policeman who fears his own wife more than someone else's bullet.

2001

The Role

The Role 2013

6.50

The Role is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life - the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger – a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt… even when the play of the life he is writing heads towards a tragic finale. Based on true incidents in the lives of Russia’s symbolists, this gripping film explores how far one man will go for the role of a lifetime.

2013

Birds Without Nests

Birds Without Nests 1996

6.00

A biography of the famous Belarus poetess Larisa Antonovna Geniyush.

1996

The Austrian Field

The Austrian Field 1991

4.00

About the incompleteness and insufficiency of the simplest senses: touch, sight, hearing. In cinema, this view traditionally denotes a collision between the authentic and the illusory. Truths and imaginary things are given in the film as images of feelings. “I love to forget time with you,” the heroine says to her blind lover and adds, "You are the most sighted of all the sighted."

1991

Fate of Saboteur

Fate of Saboteur 2021

3.00

The picture is dedicated to the exploits of the Soviet underground fighters and partisans who heroically fought against the German invaders during the Great Patriotic War. The image of the main character of the railway worker Ales Arlovich is collective, but it is based on the fate of the Soviet underground fighter Fyodor Krylovich, who committed the largest land sabotage of the Second World War at the Osipovichi railway station.

2021

Contract with Death

Contract with Death 1998

5.70

A talented surgeon becomes a target of various forces after inventing a new organs transplantation technique.

1998

On Black Ice

On Black Ice 1995

1

A group of Belarusian anti-Soviet insurgents from the failed Slutsk Defence Action wanders through forests, fleeing the from the surrounding Bolshevik army. To escape captivity or death in battle with a subsequent identification of their bodies and retaliation against their families, the insurgents decide to commit group suicide in a place hidden from the Bolsheviks.

1995

I Won't Come Back

I Won't Come Back 2014

5.80

Anya, a young academic raised in an orphanage, is on the cusp of success when she’s accused of drug possession. While in limbo hiding from the police, she hits the road with Kristina, another orphan several years Anya’s junior, in search of her possibly mythical grandmother.

2014