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In 1991, the Soviet Union, one of the most powerful nations on Earth, collapsed. Born in socialist revolution almost three-quarters of a century earlier, its birth in 1917 sent shockwaves around the world. Right from the
Performed by the State Academic Northern Russian Folk Choir, under the artistic direction of Nina Meshko, People’s Artist of the USSR, this programme features both modern and traditional ritual songs. Commissioned by the
Evening. A white bird fluttered up in the shade of the pines. The sun sets and the stars begin their mysterious dialogue with the snow-covered Russian forest. This is how French composer and pianist Nicolas Celagro sees
The film tells about Sergei Yun-Fu, or Sergei Mao, the son of Mao Zedong, and Nikolai Elizarov, or Chiang Ching-guo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek. Both of them grew up, got an education and worked in the USSR. One fought a
When Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the 24th of February, the world was shocked, but few could imagine the barbarity that the Kremlin regime would unleash against the Ukrainian nation. This document
The film depicts the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USSR. It incorporates historical newsreel footage as well as recordings of church services, religious rites, and classes at theological schools.
Nikolai Khardzhiev. The largest expert and collector of the Russian avant-garde. The owner of the rarest works, the collector who had taste, understanding, smell, remarkable abilities of persuasion. An extraordinary pers
The film introduces viewers to the exhibition of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, showing masterpieces of Russian painting, icons of the Old Russian period, and canvases by artists of the 19th and early 20th c
The history of the Russian Space Program from being the first to send a satellite into space through its downward spiral due to the demise of the Soviet Union.
In the second part of the cycle, Georgy Zhzhenov talks about himself and about his life in prisons and the zones in which he had to sit. The geography of the sorrowful path is extensive: Leningrad (Kresty prison), Vladiv
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps
A story about the most mysterious and, possibly, the most significant of the living Russian-speaking writers - "Russian Salinger". Sasha Sokolov is a classic of Russian literature and Russian modernism, who influenced wr
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations of communist ideology.
A two part documentary about the first five decades of Russian cinema: from its birth to 1953 - the death of Stalin and the first seedlings of the thaw. The film covers the most important milestones of cinema. Its introd
In a sentimental journey back to the place where he once found safe haven as a 10-year old orphan refugee, international recognized Russian folk singer Nikolai Massenkoff gives a "Thank You Philippines" concert in Guiuan
With the assassination in 1948 of the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, by the state security, new times begin in the relationship between the Soviet government and the Jews.
Making of Russian Ark, with on camera personal views by members of the cast and crew of the major film.
Documentary charting the battles waged on the Russian Front in the Second World War. The events which occurred are seen by some as the most barbaric conflict in human history