Solaris (1972)

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Starring: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Juri Jarvet

A mind-bending, metaphysical film about an investigation into why astronauts on a space station situated above the planet Solaris have suffered mental... Read more

Shadows Of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)

Director: Sergei Paradjanov

Starring: Ivan Nikolaichuk, Larissa Kadochnikova

The Ukrainian film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors won almost every, award in sight on the 1964 film festival circuit. But its become even more impo... Read more

Dersu Uzala (Blu-ray) (1975)

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Yuri Solomon, Maxim Munzuk

Kurosawa's remarkable, personal tale of the friendship between a wise old man and a young Soviet explorer, filmed in the beautiful expanse of Siberia,... Read more

Return of the Firebird (2002)

Director: Andris Liepa

Dramatic re-creations of the original Ballets Russes productions of 'The Firebird', 'Petrushka' and 'Scheherazade', first seen in Paris almost a centu... Read more

Brother (1997)

Director: Alexei Balabanov

Starring: Sergei Bodrov Jr, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko

Aka "Brat". Danila Bagrov, just demobbed from the army, returns to his quiet, provincial home town. But life is monotonous and boring in this Russian... Read more

Earth / Bezhin Meadow (1930)

Director: Alexander Dovzhenko, Sergei Eisenstein

Starring: Stepan Shkurat

"Earth" - Alexander Dovzhenko, one of the four giants of early Soviet revolutionary cinema (along with Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Vertov), shattered the... Read more

The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

Director: Sergei Paradjanov

Starring: Sofico Chiaureli, Vilen Galstyan

Censored by Soviet officials upon release, writer/director Sergei Paradjanov's lavish and visually stunning masterpiece, The Color of Pomegranates,... Read more