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Seventeen Moments of Spring, 14h
Directed by Tatiana Lioznova
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Spy, Historical
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Viatcheslav Tikhonov, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Oleg Tabakov, Yekaterina Gradova, Fritz Diez, Yuri Vizbor

12 February 1945, Germany. Max Otto von Stierlitz, a respected SS-Standartenführer in the Ausland-SD, is in fact Soviet spy Maxim Isaev, who has infiltrated into the German establishment. Though Adolf Hitler is determined to continue the Second World War, Walter Schellenberg convinces Heinrich Himmler to conduct secret negotiations with the Americans, hoping to reach a separate peace deal which would allow the Germans to concentrate all their forces on the Eastern Front. In the meantime, Ernst Kaltenbrunner becomes suspicious of Stierlitz, and orders Heinrich Müller to launch a covert investigation on him.
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed, 6h
Directed by Stanislav Govoroukhine
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Vladimir Konkine, Vladimir Vysotsky, Zinovi Gerdt, Leonid Kouravliov, Armen Djigarkhanian, Alexander Belyavsky

The film is set in post-WWII Moscow. Lieutenant Vladimir Sharapov (Vladimir Konkin) is a young reconnaissance officer and a decorated war hero who has just returned from the war and is assigned to peacetime service with the famous MUR (Moscow Department of Criminal Investigations). There he becomes part of an elite detective team led by the brilliant, tough, no-nonsense Captain Gleb Zheglov (Vysotsky). The duo becomes embroiled in two seemingly separate investigations: that of the murder of young aspiring actress Larisa Gruzdeva, and the hunt for a vicious gang of armed robbers that calls itself "Black Cat" and constantly manages to evade capture.
Chaika
Chaika (2015)
, 43minutes
Origin Russie
Genres Documentary, Crime

Heart of a Dog, 1h53
Directed by Vladimir Vladimirovitch Bortko
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Films about dogs, Cyberpunk films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Nina Rouslanova, Iouri Kouznetsov, Sergueï Filippov

The film is set in Moscow not long after the October Revolution where a complaining stray dog looks for food and shelter. A well-off well-known surgeon Phillip Phillippovich Preobrazhensky happens to need a dog and lures the animal to his big home annex practice with a piece of sausage. The dog is named Sharik and well taken care of by the doctor's maids, but still wonders why he's there. He finds out too late he's needed as a test animal: the doctor implants a pituitary gland and testicles of a recently deceased alcoholic and petty criminal Klim Chugunkin into Sharik. Sharik proceeds to become more and more human during the next days. After his transition to human is complete, it turns out that he inherited all the negative traits of the donor - bad manners, aggressiveness, use of profanity, heavy drinking - but still hates cats. He picks for himself an absurd name Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, starts working at the "Moscow Cleansing Department responsible for eliminating vagrant quadrupeds (cats, etc.)" and associating with revolutionaries, who plot to drive Preobrazhensky out of his big apartment. Eventually he turns the life in the professor's house into a nightmare by stealing money, breaking his furniture, a water ballet during a cat chase and blackmailing into marriage a girl he met at the cinema. The professor with his assistant are then urged to reverse the procedure. Sharikov turns back into a dog. As Sharik he does remember little about what has happened to him but isn't much concerned about that. To his content he is left to live in the professor's apartment.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: King of Blackmailers, 3h23
Directed by Igor Maslennikov
Origin Russie
Genres Adventure, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Vassili Livanov, Vitali Solomine, Borislav Brondoukov, Rina Zelionaïa

Holmes s'attelle à sauver l'honneur de lady Eva Blackwell, menacée par le redoutable maître chanteur Charles Auguste Milverton qui détient ses lettres intimes.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, 2h15
Directed by Igor Maslennikov
Origin Russie
Genres Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Vassili Livanov, Rina Zelionaïa, Vitali Solomine, Catherine Schell, Borislav Brondoukov, Nikolai Karachentsov

Cette série soviétique est particulièrement fidèle aux intrigues d'origine écrites de Conan Doyle, tout en mélangeant parfois deux intrigues dans un même épisode en créant de nouveaux raccords « extra-canoniques » entre deux affaires. Livanov joue un Sherlock Holmes assez décontracté et capable d'un humour discret, correspondant aux écrits de Conan Doyle.
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures, 1h30
Directed by Leonid Gaïdaï
Origin Russie
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Alexandre Demianenko, Natalya Seleznyova, Yuri Nikulin, Aleksei Smirnov, Vladimir Bassov, Georgy Vitsin

On a bus a boor and drunkard named Fedya takes a seat reserved for children and disabled persons and then refuses to let a young pregnant woman sit claiming that "she is neither a child nor handicapped". Shurik, who is riding on the same bus, puts on a pair of sunglasses, and pretends to be visually impaired. When Fedya is urged to let him sit in his seat, Shurik offers the seat to the pregnant woman. Fedya is enraged at being deceived and gets into a fight with Shurik. As a result, Fedya is arrested and sentenced to 15 days of Community service, Russian administrative arrest or simply '15 sutok' (15 days). Ironically, he is sent to serve his term to the same construction site where Shurik works part-time. The manager puts them on the same work crew. Fedya does not do his work properly, bullies Shurik, and plans to get revenge on the young student. When Shurik finally hits back, the two get involved in a Tom and Jerry-style chase throughout the construction site using building equipment and various materials as weapons. In the end Fedya is subdued and reeducated by Shurik.
Come and See, 2h20
Directed by Elem Klimov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Horror, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Aleksei Kravchenko

In 1943 two Belarusian boys are digging in a sand field looking for abandoned rifles in order to join the Soviet partisan forces. Yustin, an old man, warns them not to dig (using sarcasm and reverse psychology). One of the boys, Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko), finds an SVT-40 rifle. The next day partisans arrive at his house and take Flyora with them, to the dismay of Flyora's mother. She fears that the loss of her son, like his father before him, will lessen her and her daughters' chances of survival.
Once Upon a Time there Lived a Dog, 10minutes
Directed by Édouard Nazarov
Origin Russie
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about dogs, Wolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Armen Djigarkhanian, Georgi Burkov

The day comes when an old watchdog becomes useless but the masters being kind decide not to drive him away. However they turn exasperated when the Dog stays indifferent during a burglary. The Dog is kicked out and goes to the forest, where he meets the Wolf, his old enemy. The Dog and the Wolf are both old, so they understand they can't be just enemies. The Wolf stages a kidnapping to help his mate and the Dog "rescues" the child. The Dog is welcomed back to the khutor (the farmstead) and continues managing his old duty. The winter comes and one evening the Dog hears the howl of the Wolf. The Dog remembers to repay the Wolf's kindness. He helps the Wolf to infiltrate the house where there is wedding in progress and feeds him with viands from table. Becoming tipsy from filling meal, alcohol and warm house, the Wolf reveals starts to howl his "song". He howls and the Dog has to cast the mate away from the house. The Wolf thanks the Dog and the best friends bid farewell.
The Cranes Are Flying, 1h38
Directed by Mikhaïl Kalatozov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Tatiana Samoïlova, Alexeï Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev, Valentin Zubkov, Valentina Ananina, Maïa Boulgakova

Fyodor Ivanovich is a doctor who lives with his son, Boris; his daughter, Irina; his mother; and his nephew, Mark. The film centers on Boris's girlfriend, Veronika, during World War II.The character of Veronica represents Soviet women in the context of the aftermath of the aforementioned war.
The Diamond Arm, 1h34
Directed by Leonid Gaïdaï
Origin Russie
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Actors Yuri Nikulin, Andreï Mironov, Anatoli Papanov, Nonna Mordioukova, Leonid Kanevsky, Svetlana Svetlitchnaïa

The boss of a black market ring (known only as "The Chief") wants to smuggle a batch of jewelry from a foreign state into the Soviet Union by hiding it inside the orthopedic cast of a courier. The Chief sends a minor henchman named Gennadiy Kozodoyev (played by Mironov) to serve as the courier. Kozodoyev travels to Istanbul via a tourist cruise ship. The Turkish co-conspirators do not know what the courier looks like; they only know that he is supposed to say a code word to identify himself. Due to a mix-up, they mistake Kozodoyev's fellow passenger from the cruise ship, the "ordinary Soviet citizen" Semyon Gorbunkov (played by Nikulin) for the courier. They place a cast around his arm and put the contraband jewels inside the cast. Upon the cruise ship's return to the Soviet Union, Gorbunkov lets the police know what happened, and the police captain, who is working undercover as a taxi driver, uses Gorbunkov as bait to catch the criminals. Most of the plot are various attempts of The Chief's inept henchmen, Kozodoyev and Lyolik (played by Papanov), to lure Gorbunkov into a situation where they can quietly, without a wet job, remove the cast and reclaim the contraband jewels. In the meantime, Gorbunkov's wife begins to suspect that he has either been recruited by foreign intelligence, or is having an affair.
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style, 1h17
Directed by Leonid Gaïdaï
Origin Russie
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Actors Alexandre Demianenko, Natalia Varley, Yuri Nikulin, Yevgeny Morgunov, Georgy Vitsin, Vladimir Etouch

A kind, yet naïve, ethnography student named Shurik (Demyanenko), known from earlier films as a student at the Polytechnic Institute, goes to the Caucasus to learn ancient customs and traditions practiced by the locals, including local "myths, legends, and toasts". At the start of the film, Shurik is making his way along a mountain road in the Caucasus on a donkey. He comes upon a truck driver named Edik whose truck refuses to start. The donkey gets stubborn and neither man is able to get his respective mode of transportation going.
Gentlemen of Fortune, 1h24
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie
Actors Evgueni Leonov, Georgy Vitsin, Savely Kramarov, Radner Mouratov, Nikolay Olyalin, Erast Garine

The movie follows the story of an amiable kindergarten director named Troshkin who looks exactly like a cruel criminal nicknamed Docent (Доцент, literally associate professor) that has stolen Alexander the Great's helmet at an archaeological excavation. Docent and his gang are caught by police, but Docent is imprisoned in a different jail than his mates. Since Troshkin looks identical to Docent, the police send him undercover to prison with the real criminals to get information about the stolen helmet. He must pretend to be the real felon Docent, so in order to be convincing, Troshkin, a well-educated and good-natured man, has to learn slang and manners of criminals.