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Originally made as an 8-part Russian TV series, "The Bomber" is an action-packed adventure set during WWII, which sees a Soviet aircraft crashing in N...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

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 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