Una historia de rock, amor y amistad, "Leto" tiene lugar en Leningrado, durante el verano de 1981, cuando la escena del rock underground comenzó a florecer, influenciada por estrellas de rock occidentales como Led Zeppelin y David Bowie. La película ofrece una instantánea de esta época vibrante y muestra la madurez y la fama de los jóvenes cantantes de rock, incluido Viktor Tsoi, que se convirtió en un pionero del rock ruso. En lugar de una película biográfica de Tsoi, "Leto" representa el triángulo de amor entre Viktor, su mentor Mike, que también es músico, y su bella esposa Natasha.
En el momento de la caída del muro de Berlín, miles de personas eran espiadas en Suiza. El policía Schuler se infiltra para revelar un posible golpe de estado en el Zurich Schauspielhaus.
Mikhail Gorbachev, ex presidente de la Unión Soviética, se sienta con el cineasta Werner Herzog para hablar sobre sus muchos logros. Los temas incluyen las conversaciones para reducir las armas nucleares, la reunificación de Alemania y la disolución de su país.
A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very small Russian apartment with her mother and father, however being this close to each other makes the living get rough. Their daily life is plagued with massive amounts of alcohol (mainly vodka) and when she tries to escape her home life, she meets up with a boyfriend, Sergei who then moves into her already small apartment after sleeping with her. Every day little Vera has to go through hell just to get by, which even involves her going against her own morals after her father has done something extremely wrong.
Vadik sólo quería ir al cine. Le había pedido dinero a su madre, y yendo por la calle, se ve envuelto de pronto en mitad de unos disturbios, a los cuales la policía responde con decenas de detenciones indiscriminadas. Vadik es uno de los detenidos. Le internan en la cárcel como si fuera un adulto, y allí se ve forzado a madurar para sobrevivir. (FILMAFFINITY)
A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.
Ilze Burkovska, una niña obsesionada con las historias de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y que será cineasta en un futuro lejano, vive en Letonia bajo la bota totalitaria de los soviéticos y la ominosa sombra de las muchas amenazas y horrores de la Guerra Fría.
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Through the lives of these former schoolmates, this intimate film reveals how they have adjusted to their post-Soviet reality in today's Moscow.
Krasnaya strela is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Kropotov (Lavrov) is communist CEO of a big industrial company in Leningrad. He is crafty and successful in getting a major order from the Soviet Government; building an automated assembly line. But his style of management clashes with his subordinates, talented engineers. Their potential is strangled by Kropotov's manipulative control. The government order is not accomplished and Kropotov gets fired. He is rethinking his outdated business style while on the train No.1 to Moscow.
The year of 1988 in Estonia was exceptional - it came as a surprise for everyone that all of a sudden national symbols were allowed; expressions of no confidence were addressed towards the leaders of Communist Party and Estonian government; the Popular Front of Estonia and Estonian Green Movement but also the Intermovement (the Workers International Movement of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic) were founded. Estonian Heritage Society restored the monuments of the War of independence; the facts about war crimes during the Stalinist regime were disclosed and - imagine that! - the representatives of Estonian Republic went against the central authorities in Moscow. Events in Estonia draw international attention. Is all this possible in a totalitarian state? This documentary chronicle gives a plausibe interpretation of the events that took place in Estonia in 1988, of the changes in people's lives and the awakening after a 48-year-long period of darkness.
Existential drama taking place in the midst of Perestroika.
A film about the sociopolitical condition of the Soviet society at the end of the eighties.
The film "Nights full moon" shows the tendency of moral decay in society. The main character is torn apart by internal contradictions, leading him to the path of Evil. Bans on self-identification - philosophical, existential, sexual, and then permissiveness spawn a monster that is not aware of its true nature and genuine desires. Throughout the film-trilogy, the protagonist goes through a series of temptations that ruin his soul and lead, after all, to a madhouse. In a general sense, the film allegorically shows the tragic path of the Russian lumpen intellectual, lost between the past and the present, not finding the strength to accept and comprehend the unexpected changes that happened in our country twenty years ago. In the global sense - the tragic circle of Russian history.