The Chronicles of Melanie (2016)
• November 1st, 2016 • 2h 4min
Drama, History
Overview
The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force them to leave everything behind. Together with more than 15 000 Latvians, Melanie and her son get deported to Siberia. In her fight against cold, famine and cruelty, she only gains new strength through the letters she writes to Aleksandr, full of hope for a free Latvia and a better tomorrow.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
A Wreath of Sonnets
Released on: 1977-09-20
War, Drama
A story of two boys who obstinately, in spite of everything and everyone run to the front when the w...
Silent Wedding
Released on: 2008-11-21
Comedy, Drama, History
In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the...
Torn
Released on: 2017-09-24
Crime, Drama, TV Movie
When a convicted felon fails to return from his prison leave and a young woman is found murdered, fo...
Ballad of Khevsureti
Released on: 1966-12-19
Drama, History
When Imeda’s father is killed in a blood revenge accident, the family moves him to the city where he...
Bridge of Spies
Released on: 2015-10-15
Thriller, Drama
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down hi...
No Gods No Masters
Released on: 2025-09-03
Drama, Adventure, History
The story unfolds in the winter of the year 1215. A mysterious stranger who has escaped from prison ...
Invasion
Released on: 1980-08-19
TV Movie, History, Drama
Docu-drama surrounding the events leading to the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
The Journalist
Released on: 1967-09-23
Drama, Romance
A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written com...
Un Dia
Released on: 2023-01-25
Drama
Natalia, the owner of a restaurant on the island of Aruba, struggles to keep her business afloat whi...
October Days
Released on: 1958-01-01
Action, Drama, History
Historical drama depicting the events leading up to the 1917 October Revolution produced to celebrat...
White Nights
Released on: 1985-11-22
Drama, Thriller
After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in ...
Only Three Nights
Released on: 1969-01-01
Romance, Drama
The love story in the remote village. Lyuba has a child, Nikolai has a wife. Nikolay, having become ...
Train of Life
Released on: 1998-09-16
Drama, Comedy, War
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation tra...
Surviving with Wolves
Released on: 2007-11-21
Drama
In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide f...
By Dawn's Early Light
Released on: 1990-05-19
TV Movie, Action, Drama, Thriller
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainia...
Afonya
Released on: 1976-01-01
Drama, Comedy, Romance
The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main charact...
The Proposal
Released on: 2009-06-02
Comedy, Romance, Drama
When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book edito...
The Paper Brigade
Released on: 2018-03-15
Documentary, History
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
When Emirs Die
Released on: 1932-09-20
Drama
It depicts the establishment of kolkhoz (collective farming) in Bukhara. Poor dehkans are oppressed ...
The White Reindeer
Released on: 2019-04-21
Documentary, Drama
Imagine one of the most remote wildernesses in the world. Granddaughter Masha and Vladimir, the prot...