Movies: Leningrad Documentary Film Studio

A 1988 documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov, about the later life and death of Soviet Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was originally intended to mark the 50th birthday of Tarkovsky in 1982, which would have been before his deat...

The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many archives, at one time censored by the Soviet government. A brief take on his life, from his transition as a...

A requiem for a Russian peasant woman, Maria Semionovna Voinova. The film is in two chapters. The first chapter consists of an impression of Maria Semionovna, scenes of the colours of summer time: hay–making, bathing in a river, work in the flax fiel...

The manifestation and fireworks on the 1st of May, one of the ritual celebrations of Soviet times, as a gathering of tired participants of a mass scene falling into pieces without the director's orders and without any aims....

On the banks of the Obvodny Canal in St. Petersburg there are three crazy houses, three Houses of Culture, a spiritual academy, a pub ... This movie is a cut-off of the era, watching our life, and those around us. Thinking about where the line betwee...

Documentary — featuring both interviews and live footage — about underground rock music in Russia, during the last years of the Perestroika....

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The heroic romance of the profession is in the story about the life of test pilot Yuri Garnaev, who tragically died with his crew while extinguishing forest fires in France in 1967....

Film about Mitki - a creative group of St. Petersburg artists, writers and musicians who joined them, - went on a trip to Europe....

The film, shot in 1979, but allowed to be shown only 10 years later, talks about the traditional hero of Soviet propaganda. It consists of two parallel plots. The first is the classic "newsreel" about the hero of labor, a noble weaver Golubeva. Golub...

A rare documentary that shows how Soviet war propaganda presented the events of the Finnish front in 1941–1944. The main emphasis is on the resolution of the war. The film contains plenty of unique footage of the final stages of the Continuation War....

In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its events, guests and participants, such as the American director Leo Hurwitz, the Latvian director Iva...

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About the best discos in the USSR - in Moscow, Riga, Novosibirsk, Dubna, etc., with comments by the Deputy Minister of Culture of the USSR Golubtsova G.V., Doctor of Historical Sciences I.V. Bestuzhev-Lada....

The equipment is in a dark room, the lights are flashing. The hand turns the adjustment knob. The sun shines through the arched openings of the palace windows, "Aquarium" music sounds behind the scenes....

Follows the life feat of doctor L.S.Soboleva, who saved people during three outbreaks of the plague....

The picture is about the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, England and America, which developed as a counterweight to the aggressive policy of Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The unique newsreel footage of these years, shot by operators of...

A montage of Leningrad newsreel becomes a composite collage made up of documents-shots, divided in 16 parts, presenting the author's point of view on Russia and modern times. In the title, Sokurov appears as 'compiler' and the selection of the docume...

Revolt in Sobibor is a beautifully filmed portrait of four survivors of the uprising in the Sobibór extermination camp in Eastern Poland, close to the Russian border....

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