Vgik Movies

A group of Swedish tourists are on the way to a Russian village to witness the so called 'Festivity of Neptunus', in which the inhabitants take a...

The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr...

Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom...

The film invites its viewers to reflect on where modern sports have come to. Does a young, honest and uncompromising athlete have a future in the...

Two lovers cannot be together—the girl’s authoritarian father refuses to approve the marriage. When the young man kills him, a third...

A young schoolboy tries to help the girl he likes to pass a test.

After a drunkard crashes his tractor for the upteenth time, the chairman of his collective farm decides to scare some sense into him and announces...

A surreal film done in the style of a silent farce.

Uldis Brauns' diploma film at VGIK

The boy wants to have a pigeon, but he can't afford to buy a bird. On the market for a pigeon asking for 100 rubles! Then he decides to buy a bird,...

A short movie and university exercise filmed in 1981.

A man and a woman are trying to solve a problem that is crucial to their relationship, but their ideas and beliefs have a different vision.

A down on his luck peasant goes to fight in World War I and returns home a hero. Partially lost.

Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century.