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....

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

The film invites its viewers to reflect on where modern sports have come to. Does a young, honest and uncompromising athlete have a future in the sport or must he go along with the dishonest tricks and the mean game that comes from it all?...

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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 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...

A down on his luck peasant goes to fight in World War I and returns home a hero. Partially lost....

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....

Ivan Baikalov, the secretary of the District Committee, is the first person to come to him with any question: grain harvesting machines, alimony, crankshafts... - the party leader of the Altai village should know and be able to do everything. The wif...

A sweet romance unfolds between two young factory workers who meet on a train and set out to discover their city together before the young woman must return to her flat....

A short movie and university exercise about so-called "beat" — that is the name of nascent rock music in Soviet Union. It illustrates the difference between generation of sons and generation of fathers who do not understand the idea of this new cultu...

Phone conversation between an abandoned husband and his friend....

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

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

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A school boy finds a fallen pilot in the forest during the fire started by enemies....

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

Winter. Snow is sweeping, a blizzard howls. The wife of old Foma died. Fomka takes a coffin on a sleigh to a village graveyard along a deserted, dusty winter road, and he sees that Nastasiya is walking barefoot in the snow - alive, young, as on a pho...