Dersu Uzala

Dersu Uzala 1961

6.30

Dersu Uzala (Russian: Дерсу Узала) is a 1961 Soviet film, adapted from the books of Vladimir Arsenyev, about his travels in Russian Far East with a native trapper, Dersu Uzala.

1961

I Was a Sputnik of the Sun

I Was a Sputnik of the Sun 1959

5.20

Soviet Scientist Petrovich pioneers the way to the Sun, but his spacecraft is never heard from again. Later, Andrew's laboratory investigates means of protection from deadly radiation. Andrew repeats Petrovich's journey, and offers his life to rescue an orbiting science laboratory, which holds the solution to the problem.

1959

The Lynx Follows the Path

The Lynx Follows the Path 1982

6.70

A wilderness drama about a Russian forest ranger and his tame lynx. Man and lynx aid each other in their survival and mission to protect wildlife against poachers. Sequel to Tropoy beskorystoy lyubvi.

1982

Big Boy

Big Boy 1982

8.00

Follows the famous Oryol trotter, multiple champion of the beginning of the century. Then - in sharp battles on the tracks of hippodromes - the fate of domestic horse breeding was decided. The world of animals and people is shown through the perception of a horse named Big Boy.

1982

Kolya At Home Alone

Kolya At Home Alone 1957

7.00

Milkmaid Mikheeva, having gone to work, leaves her little son Kolya unattended. The boy finds matches and, playing with them, causes a fire in the house. The child is taken to the hospital with severe burns. The chairman of the collective farm, who has been repeatedly asked to arrange a nursery, begins to realize that he is the real culprit of the trouble.

1957

The Favorite

The Favorite 1985

1

A clown leaves the circus where he performed for many years. Accompanied by his nephew and white puddle Arto, he starts performing street shows to earn for living.

1985

King of Diamonds

King of Diamonds 1959

1

Sasha and Katya love each other. The wedding has already been scheduled, Sasha is just about to go on a business trip...

1959

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 1976

7.30

Rikki is a young mongoose who is adopted by a human family after nearly drowning in the river. He returns the favour by protecting them from two murderous cobra.

1976

Nocturne 1931

Nocturne 1931 1989

1

...Although he signed a confession to what he was accused of, he remained the honest and decent person he had been all his life.

1989

The White Fang

The White Fang 1946

5.30

According to the story by Jack London. The history of the wild wolf, who picked up the boy and raised an Indian. After falling to the evil man - the owner of the bar, White Fang turned into a ferocious evil beast, coming out victorious from all the dog fights, which suited his enterprising owner. But once it strangled, snatched from the jaws of the bulldog engineer Weedon Scott. His kindness has transformed the beast.

1946

What is the Theory of Relativity?

What is the Theory of Relativity? 1964

1.00

In a compartment of the Moscow-Novosibirsk train, a young physicist meets famous film actors. The conversation accidentally comes to Einstein, and the woman begins to explain to her fellow travelers what the theory of relativity is. The actors are incidentally on their way to the shooting of a film about physicists, but they do not understand the subject at all.

1964

The Elephant Got Lost

The Elephant Got Lost 1984

1

The fire in the circus scared the elephant Chandu, and he ran away. Soon, the forester's son Egor discovers Chandu, exhausted and wounded by poachers, and nurses him back to health. It's hard for him to break up with his new friend now...

1984

The Path Towards Uninterested Love

The Path Towards Uninterested Love 1972

6.30

On one of his trips through the nature reserve, the ranger Michailytsch found a young lynx whose mother was killed by a bear. He takes it with him to his log cabin and calls it Kunak, which means friend. The young lynx gets used to the human environment. He grows up to become a stately lynx. When he attacks a rooster one day, he is sent away. On his wanderings through the Siberian forest, he is caught in a poacher’s trap. Only after a long search does Michailytsch find Kunak and frees him. But the lynx came to the attention of thieves who catch it and sell it to a circus in the city…

1972

Vacations in the Stone Age

Vacations in the Stone Age 1968

6.00

A group of young scientists conducts an experiment, putting themselves in the conditions of the people of the Stone Age. With the help of stone tools, they procure food and fire, and make themselves comfortable in nature.

1968

The Kuleshov Effect

The Kuleshov Effect 1969

6.00

An excellent 1969 documentary, S. Raitburt’s The Kuleshov Effect, made about a year before Lev Kuleshov died, and interviewing him at length, both about his filmmaking and his far lengthier career as a teacher (including some fascinating remarks about Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo). Also interviewed is the father of Russian Formalism, Viktor Shklovsky, who worked with Kuleshov as a screenwriter on a Jack London adaptation, By the Law, in 1926.

1969