Stalingrad (2013)

Director: Fedor Bondarchuk

Starring: Thomas Kretschmann, Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Pyotr Fyodorov, Sergey...

A band of Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deepl... Read more

Stalker (1979)

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Starring: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn

An extraordinary sci-fi film about an expedition into 'the zone', an eerie no-man's-land created by a meteor strike and depicted as a warped version o... Read more

Stalker (Blu-ray) (1979)

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Starring: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn

An extraordinary sci-fi film about an expedition into 'the zone', an eerie no-man's-land created by a meteor strike and depicted as a warped version o... Read more

Storm Over Asia (1928)

Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin

Starring: Valeri Inkizhanov, I Inkizhanov, L Dedintsev

Director Vsevolod Pudovkin's epic is set on the Soviet Asian frontier and tells of a rebellious young Mongol trapper who is set up as a "puppet leader... Read more

Strike (1924)

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Starring: Maxim Shtraukh, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Gomorov

In 1922, Lenin also had said that, "...of all of the arts, for us the cinema was the most important." In 1924, the Proletkult offered Eisenstein, then... Read more

The Admiral (2008)

Director: Andrey Kravchuk

Starring: Richard Bohringer, Sergei Bezrukov, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Konstantin Khabensky,...

A lavish romantic drama and historical fiction centered on Admiral Kolchak (Konstantin Khabensky), a WWI war hero and naval commander who played an im... Read more

The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion (1999)

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky, Chris Marker, Alexander Sokurov, Tonino Guerra

A series of three documentaries on Andrei Tarkovsky - generally regarded as the most important and influential filmmaker of the post-war Soviet era in... Read more

The Ascent (1976)

Director: Larissa Shepitko

Starring: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin

The winter of 1942 in Belorussia seems a grim game of cat and mouse between Soviet Partisans and Russians working for German invaders.Two captured Par... Read more

The Banishment (2007)

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev

Starring: Maria Bonnevie, Konstantin Lavronenko, Aleksandr Baluev

Set in an unnamed location and time, Andrei Zvyagintsevs truly compelling, mesmerisingly photographed drama follows Alex (Konstantin Lavronenko), Ver... Read more

The Barber of Siberia (1999)

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov

Starring: Julia Ormond, Richard Harris, Oleg Menshikov

In 1905, Jane Callaghan, a once beautiful American, writes to her son at a famous military academy. Her memories take us back twenty years to when she... Read more