Movies: Vgik

Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village....

The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tar...

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession....

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Winter. Snow is sweeping, a blizzard howls. The wife of old Foma died. Fomka takes a coffin on a sleigh to a village graveyard along a deserted, dusty winter road, and he sees that Nastasiya is walking barefoot in the snow - alive, young, as on a pho...

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 are scarred by the trauma of the Russian Empire of yesteryear....

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 dive in a hole in the ice. This tradition, however, does not exist at all. The inhabitants try to make a...

A sweet romance unfolds between two young factory workers who meet on a train and set out to discover their city together before the young woman must return to her flat....

Elem Klimov's diploma film at VGIK....

Short adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine....

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

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

The young Petrukha couple live in a village - a kind, docile husband and strict wife. Soon, twins are born to them....

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 sport or must he go along with the dishonest tricks and the mean game that comes from it all?...

A man tries to escape from his wife in order to visit an exhibition, where he sees a painting representing his own house....

Kasian Nefedovich decides to convey his last wish, of burying him beside his wife's grave, to his daughter Zinke and spend some time with her. But she doesn't allow him to stay with her family....

The main characters of the film are members of the group "Nastya" Nastya Poleva and Yegor Belkin. The half-hour half-documentary tape included footage taken by Balabanov in 1985-1990. In addition to the main characters, the documentary footage captur...

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

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