Movies: Vgik

The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tar...

Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village....

Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century....

Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom are scarred by the trauma of the Russian Empire of yesteryear....

Ahmed’s father has only a day with his wife and son before he must return to war. With haunting, innocent cruelty, the children play games that mirror the adult world, leading them to discover the harshness of destiny...

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession....

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The main characters of the film are members of the group "Nastya" Nastya Poleva and Yegor Belkin. The half-hour half-documentary tape included footage taken by Balabanov in 1985-1990. In addition to the main characters, the documentary footage captur...

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A group of Swedish tourists are on the way to a Russian village to witness the so called 'Festivity of Neptunus', in which the inhabitants take a dive in a hole in the ice. This tradition, however, does not exist at all. The inhabitants try to make a...

This is the subject of ongoing discovery of the beauty of the world, that man makes in his life and in his work, which is being developed as part of a big city, presented during a day's work. This film starts and ends with the rotating image of the s...

Short adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine....

A man tries to escape from his wife in order to visit an exhibition, where he sees a painting representing his own house....

A kaleidoscopic living diary of the underground rock scene in Leningrad just before perestroika....

A young schoolboy tries to help the girl he likes to pass a test....

The story is about a nasty boy who blackmails his older sister and the young man who is in love with her....

In their first collaboration Melkonian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov film two neighbour families that both claim ownership of a huge mulberry tree growing in the middle of their two houses....

The story of a young Stakhanovite who was appointed a foreman in a women's team....

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A surreal film done in the style of a silent farce....