Stalin's Sickle
It is 1962. New Zealand is emerging from the austerity of the 1950s into a new age. Daniel is a nine-year-old Catholic boy, an only child given to colourful imaginings. He discovers that an old man who passes the plate i
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It is 1962. New Zealand is emerging from the austerity of the 1950s into a new age. Daniel is a nine-year-old Catholic boy, an only child given to colourful imaginings. He discovers that an old man who passes the plate i
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village a
A secret agent must be solitary and austere, no affections, no ties, no sentimentalities, said a man who should know: Richard Sorge, Stalins master spy in Tokyo. Sorge himself didn't follow those rules at all. He was an
A fiction film made with fragments of reality. An historical documentary made by cogging fictional elements. This is the odyssey of those who dared dreaming and were devoured by their dreams. An adventure into the origin
Video collection of live performances by THE STALIN in Shinjuku during the 1980s indie era.
Gain an inside look into the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin's reign of terror through eyewitness testimonies, archival photographs and rare film footage, which reveal the real-life backstabbing and power plays among Sta
A documentary study of the circumstances and course of the drama that played out in the second half of the 30s around the project of creating "Soviet Hollywood" in the USSR - the center of the film industry in the image
Jonathan Meades examines the cult of Stalinism through its buildings and monuments.
Storyville: an investigation into who killed Welsh journalist Gareth Jones. Jones's greatest scoop was to reveal the starvation to death of millions in 1930s Ukraine, caused by Stalin's policies. A portrait emerges of a
The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an agronomist who made great promises and fake inventions. Each of them tried to
Over the course of his long career, Boris Efimov drew political cartoons about pretty much every important world event. He spent his entire career at periodicals and newspapers such as Pravda, meaning that for many years
Rare color footage shot by one of the Soviet Union’s greatest filmmakers, Mikheil Chiaureli, who was responsible for the film “The Fall of Berlin” has been restored and edited into what can best be described as a sixty m
Between February 4 and 11, 1945, three months before World War II ended in Europe, US President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill, and Soviet leader Stalin met in the Ukrainian city of Yalta to discuss how the
A documentary shows several contemporary Soviet citizens who are staunch supporters of the discredited Stalin. They include a public prosecutor, a factory foreman, a taxi driver and a schoolmistress.
A short documentary that traces the family history of Josef Stalin's grandson, Evgenij Dzhugashvili, who closely resembles and admires his grandfather, despite having been rejcted by him
The plot of this documentary is dedicated to the tragic fate of Joseph Stalin's grandchildren.
Within the city, the authorities did what they could. As one fell ill, another succeeded him. Continuous attacks by ill-trained Russian troops finally broke through the German lines and the siege was relieved. However,
A comical exploration of the 50's in the Israeli Kibutz movement, when socialist values were reexamined following the death of Stalin. With their mentor and iconic leader gone, the members of the Kibutz have to face a po