The film is about the life and work of Grigory Ordzhonikidze Konstantinoviche, an important personality in both the Communist Party and the Soviet state. The film includes speeches by his bereaved friends who attended his funeral. In 1937, after the unexpected death of Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Vertov received an urgent order from the government to produce a film about the life of Ordzhonikidze. He was ordered to work together with Yakov Bliohom and the director of the film "Battleship Potemkin" distributed by Goskino (Soviet State Committee for Cinematography).
Documentary film about the first St. Petersburg music club TaMtAm. It existed since 1991 upon 1996 ...
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-86) in his own words: hi...
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The long lasting Palestinian-Israeli conflict has created appaling phenomenons that have horrified t...
Raimonds Pauls is almost 85 years old, rehearses almost every day and performs at least once a week....
Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the m...
Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the m...
Mothers and doctors speak out about the grim reality of life in the five years following the Chernob...
This documentary follows the election campaigns of a journalist, a local crime boss, a formerly exil...
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Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory started as an investigation of the link between politics and ...
In 1944 Crimean Tatars has suffered a long road in exile. It was accompanied by famine, illness and ...
This is a rare look at one of the worst horror stories in the long infamous history of warfare. This...
Tells the story of the tragic events in Ukraine in 1932-33, the genocidal Great Famine or the Holodo...
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