On July 4, 2015, The Ascent was screened at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Here’s some Boris Plotnikov fan art!
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On June 29, 1978, The Ascent debuted in Argentina. Here’s some Boris Plotnikov fan art!
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62 years ago:
Clear Skies (SU)
Original title: Чистое небо
For many years, Sasha Lvova has been waiting for the return of her lover, pilot Aleksei Astakhov, refusing to believe in his death at the front. And he really returns to her and his son after captivity, but this is a completely different person, rejected by society, expelled from the profession. It ...
1961-05-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/190785
#ClearSkies #Mosfilm #SovietCinema #ClassicMovies

61 years ago:
Introduction to Life (SU)
Original title: Вступление
A boy from Leningrad has his world turned upside down by his parent's separation and World War II. He leaves town amidst the fighting and returns to find a friend in his step-brother. The war is seen through the eyes of children and told in flashback form. The film was a special prize winner at the ...
1962-05-06
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/204188
#IntroductiontoLife #NikolayBurlyaev #Mosfilm #ClassicFilm #SovietCinema

40 years ago:
Fateful Sunday (SU)
Original title: Тревожное воскресенье
A fire starts on the tanker which is docked in a port. A small group of a workers is trapped inside the burning ship.
1983-05-03
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/183180
#FatefulSunday #ViktorKosykh #Mosfilm #ClassicFilm #SovietCinema

87 years ago:
We Are from Kronstadt (SU)
Original title: Мы из Кронштадта
In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment (made up of communist Reds) defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces
1936-05-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/245874
#WeArefromKronstadt #Mosfilm #SovietCinema #Film

50 years ago:
The Commander of the Lucky 'Pike' (SU)
Original title: Командир счастливой «Щуки»
1942, Polar region. The Germans are preparing to capture Murmansk. The submarine Sch-721 is considered lucky, and its captain Aleksei Strogov has the ability to extricate himself from the most difficult situations. He also develops tactics for a periscope-free torpedo attack, despite the skepticism ...
1973-04-29
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/219926
#TheCommanderoftheLuckyPike #Mosfilm

77 years ago:
The Stone Flower (SU)
Original title: Каменный цветок
This remarkable film is based on P. Bazhov’s fairy tale “The Malachite Box”. Little Danila was the most inquisitive apprentice of old Prokopich, a famous stone-carving master. Years passed… Like his teacher, the grown-up Danila has learned to feel the soul of his material and became an expert in han...
1946-04-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14495
#TheStoneFlower #VladimirDruzhnikov #Mosfilm #SovietCinema #ClassicMovies

59 years ago:
Cheka Employee (SU)
Original title: Сотрудник ЧК
Based on the novel of the same name by Aleksandr Lukin and Dmitriy Polyanovskiy. Russia, 1919. A young soldier of the First Cavalry Army, Aleksei Mikhalyov, is sent to work in the provincial Cheka. Here in the south of the country there is a large White Guard underground led by the elusive Markov. A...
1964-04-27
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/69839
#ChekaEmployee #Mosfilm #ClassicFilm #SovietCinema

85 years ago:
Volga - Volga (SU)
Original title: Волга-Волга
Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad.
1938-04-24
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37133
#VolgaVolga #YevaLadyzhenskaya #WomenInFilm #Mosfilm #SovietCinema #Movies

69 years ago:
True Friends (SU)
Original title: Верные друзья
Story about 3 childhood friends who found each other later in life and decided to rafting on one of the Moscovian rivers.
1954-04-20
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/142770
#TrueFriends #MikhailKalatozov #VasiliMerkuryev #GeorgiGeorgiu #Mosfilm #SovietCinema #Film

49 years ago:
Silence of Doctor Ivens (SU)
Original title: Молчание доктора Ивенса
In the surreal aftermath to a plane crash at sea Dr. Iven an eminent scientist is the only survivor to be taken into the confidence of the alien rescuers. He learns that the world with its weapons of mass destruction is not ready for the wonders of the culture of the pacifist visitors. The situation...
1974-04-15
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/181924
#SilenceofDoctorIvens #ValeriKhlevinsky #Mosfilm #SciFi

35 years ago:
Dear Yelena Sergeyevna (SU)
Original title: Дорогая Елена Сергеевна
Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna on her birthday and ask her to return them their graduate works on mathematics in order to change them before the marks. Yelena Sergeyevna strongly objects...
1988-04-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/73281
#DearYelenaSergeyevna #NatalyaShchukina #Mosfilm #SovietCinema #ClassicMovies

35 years ago:
Dear Yelena Sergeyevna (SU)
Original title: Дорогая Елена Сергеевна
Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna on her birthday and ask her to return them their graduate works on mathematics in order to change them before the marks. Yelena Sergeyevna strongly objects...
1988-04-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/73281
#DearYelenaSergeyevna #NatalyaShchukina #Mosfilm #SovietCinema #ClassicMovies

81 years ago:
Mashenka (SU)
Original title: Машенька
Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people...
1942-04-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/158155
#Mashenka #MikhailKuznetsov #AlekseiKonsovsky #YevgeniyaAbdirkina #WomenInFilm #Mosfilm

This filme is such a masterpiece! It is a horror movie about the scariest thing on Earth: us. Trust me, you must see this; it's a lesson of what we did as species, and some people today ( so soon ) have already forgotten.

https://youtu.be/zjIiApN6cfg

#film #movie #movies #wwii #classicalfilms #SovietUnion #holocaust #warcrimes #war #horror #mosfilm #horromovies #1940s #soldiers

46 years ago:
The Ascent (SU)
Original title: Восхождение
Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
1977-04-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/50183
#TheAscent #LarisaShepitko #AnatoliySolonitsyn #ValeriyaBelova #WomenInFilm #Mosfilm #SovietCinema #Film

85 years ago:
The New Moscow (SU)
Original title: Новая Москва
A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a “New Moscow.” The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it.
1938-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/262882
#TheNewMoscow #Mosfilm #SciFi #SovietCinema #ClassicMovies

87 years ago:
The Miracle Worker (SU)
Original title: Чудесница
Life in a Russian village at harvest time as idealized peasant pastoral, concentrating on the landscapes and folk songs of the region.
1936-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/262883
#TheMiracleWorker #Mosfilm #SovietCinema #Film

85 years ago:
The New Moscow (SU)
Original title: Новая Москва
A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a “New Moscow.” The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it.
1938-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/262882
#TheNewMoscow #Mosfilm #SciFi #ClassicFilm #SovietCinema