The Bomber (2011)

Director: Vitaliy Vorobyov

Starring: Nikita Efremov, Ekaterina Astakhova

Originally made as an 8-part Russian TV series, "The Bomber" is an action-packed adventure set during WWII, which sees a Soviet aircraft crashing in N... 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

The Complete Works of Yuri Norstein ( Tale of Tales, Hedgehog in the Fog, Heron and the Crane, Fox and Rabbit ) (1978)

Director: Yuri Norstein

Yuri Norstein is a world renowned Russian animator, whose painstaking attention of detail and craft have become legendary. On this Disc are collected... Read more

The Concert (2009)

Director: Radu Mihaileanu

Starring: Miou-Miou, Melanie Laurent, Alexsey Guskov, Lionel Abelanski, Laurent Bateau, D...

25 years ago, Andrei Filipov was a prodigy - once the celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, the greatest orchestra in Russia. Today he works... Read more

The Cranes are Flying (1957)

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

Starring: Tatiana Samoilova, Alexei Batalov, Vasily Merkuryev

Veronica and Boris are blissfully in love, until the eruption of World War II tears them apart. Boris is sent to the front lines... and then communica... Read more

The Cuckoo (2002)

Director: Alexandr Rogozhkin

Starring: Anni-Christiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov

Aka "Kukushka". Highly-praised and upbeat anti-war drama in which two men from opposing armies - a Finnish sniper and a Russian Captain find themselve... Read more

The Holocaust: The Liberation of Auschwitz (2004)

Recorded from January - February 1945 by a Soviet film crew attached to the 1st Ukrainian Front, the programme tells the story of the liberation of th... Read more

The Italian (2005)

Director: Andrei Kravchuk

Starring: Kolya Spiridonov, Maria Kuznetsova, Nikolai Reutov

The film opens in a Dickensian orphanage in Russia, a fascinating miniature world presided over by a hierarchy of orphans. The daily routine is broken... Read more

The Last Station (2009)

Director: Michael Hoffman

Starring: Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti, James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff,...

In 1910, famed novelist Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) and his wife Sofya (Helen Mirren) vehemently disagree over the rights to Tolstoy's literary... Read more

The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)

Director: Sergei Paradjanov

Starring: Levan Outchanechvili, Zourab Kipchidze, Yuri Goyan, Veronika Metonidze, Levan Na...

THE LEGEND OF SURAM FORTRESS (1985) - Based on an ancient legend, this dazzling film follows repeated efforts by the Georgian people to construct a de... Read more