Inizi del secolo. Nel villaggio ucraino di Anatevka vive una piccola e povera comunità ebraica, pacificamente tollerata dalla maggioranza cristiana degli abitanti. Un uomo e sua moglie sognano, per le loro figliole, dei buoni partiti; ma queste infine sposano uomini che non soddisfano nè le aspettative del genitore, nè le tradizioni della comunità. L'uomo e la sua famiglia - perseguitati perchè sono ebrei - vengono costretti a emigrare in America. Prima di partire, l'umanità dell'uomo prevale ancora: augura a una sua figlia e al marito cristiano - che per solidarietà emigrerà anch'egli - la benedizione di Dio. Il titolo fa riferimento a un detto ebraico: il musicista costretto a suonare in condizioni impossibili (su un tetto) è come l'ebreo costretto a vivere sul filo del rasoio. Il film di Jewison è tratto dal fortunato musical di Jospeh Stein, a sua volta ispirato ai racconti di Scholem Alecheim.
1902: in zona selvaggia lungo il fiume Ussuri, ai confini con la Manciuria, Dersu Uzala, solitario cacciatore mongolo e di età indefinita, incontra la piccola spedizione cartografica del capitano russo Arseniev. Il nomade salva la vita all'ufficiale e i due diventano amici. Si ritroveranno cinque anni dopo, e questa volta sarà il mongolo a dovere la vita al russo.
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.
Durante la guerra in Caucaso, due soldati russi, il giovane Vanja e il più vecchio Sasha, sono catturati da un uomo, Abdul-Murat, che vorrebbe usarli per uno scambio con i russi in cambio della liberazione di suo figlio prigioniero.
Un contadino ucraino tornato dalla Prima Guerra Mondiale va a lavorare nell'arsenale di Kiev e prende parte allo sciopero popolare che nel 1918 sconvolse la città. Durante gli scontri contro i soldati viene mortalmente ferito ma, come invincibile, riesce a rialzarsi e a fronteggiare l'ufficiale che ordina la strage. È stato prodotto per commemorare l'insurrezione degli operai dell'arsenale di Kiev contro il governo nazionalista ucraino nel gennaio 1918.
In 1975, the first Russian cosmonaut on the Moon is unable to make his way back and is declared missing in space.
Set in 1942, DECIMATION tells the story of ten Russian soldiers accused of cowardice and their subsequent punishment.
A young Japanese actress remembers her war childhood in Korea. Her father goes to fight, her baby sister Miko dies of typhoid, her beloved Korean maid Ohana is fired due to a mistake which could cost Chiko her life... By and by Chiko realizes that the country is being ruled by the Japanese and the Koreans are persecuted. When the war ends, the Koreans chase the Japanese rule and the roles change. Now Chiko's family is unwanted. But then the Russians come and this is the end. They have to burn all the pictures to avoid all suspicions... even Miko's picture. But when the Russians come to their house, they decide to flee over the 38th Parallel towards freedom. A group of men, women, children struggles along the mountains, led by the light of the Northern Star. Along the way they meet a Korean man, who is willing to help them to escape the Russian soldiers although his family was killed by the Japanese.
They say, that travelling on russian space train through solar system isn't comfortable. It's a lie! We show you an ordinary voyage on a Russian spacetrain, which was not without interesting incidents. Alien, love confessions, hiking songs, and more!
"Glago's Guest" follows the intriguing and thought-provoking story of a lonely Russian soldier stationed in a remote Siberian outpost. When the soldier's solitude is interrupted one day by the arrival of a strange new "guest" named Lars, Glago is jolted out of his uneventful daily routine. Soon, though, he comes to realize that things are not always what they appear to be.
Based on an excerpt from the novel by L.N.Tolstoy "War and Peace."
The war of 1812. The defeated Napoleonic army is retreating. Three Russian soldiers settled in a snowy forest near a fire: a young (Zaletayev), an elderly and a middle-aged one. Zaletayev fantasizes — as if he had captured Napoleon. The soldiers laugh good-naturedly at him. After dinner, they fall asleep...
Two Frenchmen go to the clearing — an officer and a soldier. Russian soldiers wake up and, seeing that the officer is barely standing on his feet from cold and hunger, take him to the colonel. The French soldier sits down to the fire. The Russians give him porridge and vodka. The soldier, encouraged, sings a french song. Zaletayev echoes him. A tired Frenchman falls asleep on Zaletayev’s shoulder. The soldiers carefully shelter him. “Also people,” an elderly soldier says with a sigh.
During the war years, russian soldiers pick up an orphaned boy. He refuses to go to the rear and becomes a scout, and then remains with the artillery battery. When the calculation of the battery dies in battle with the German tanks that have broken through, Vanya is sent to the Suvorov School, whose students participate in a military parade on Red Square.