1979 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

1969 film by Georgiy Shengelaya

2007 film by Andrzej Wajda

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.

1944 historical epic film about Ivan IV of Russia directed by Sergei Eisenstein

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.

Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail Romm's tributes to the Marxist visionary who helped orchestrate the insurrection of October, 1917.

1962 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

1965 film by Sergei Parajanov

1983 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

1975 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.

Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna such questions as "What do you love the most?", "What scares you the most?", "What do you want above anything" and "What do you hate the most?"

1979 film by Vladimir Menshov

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.

1977 film by Larisa Shepitko

Politically-tinted film about the pioneers of Soviet television shows Kovalov as an actor.
A film in which Oleg Kovalov performs as actor. The Paper Eyes of Prishvin, a politically-tinted film about the pioneers of Soviet television, is in fact one of the first manifestations of Russian post-modernism, in which playing with genres and leitmotifs has a leading role. Like the film Confession by Tengiz Abuladze, that was released slightly earlier, the film demythologises the ideology and the aesthetics of the 'Grand Style', monumentalism in art. One of those who fell victim to that was Eisenstein, who is here portrayed as a caricature with a homosexual bent. In this film Oleg Kovalov plays the role of a symbolic Leningrad intellectual with glasses and a hat: a small victim of the great dictatorship. While he is not a professional actor, Kovalov manages to give his personality a timelessness that brings him unexpectedly close to the figures created by Nabokov.

The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.