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Over 40 Army cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and the 1st Ukrainian Fronts contributed footage of this remarkable documentary of the fall of Berlin, including captured German footage.

Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a constant anticipation of the advancing German army and air raids.

Engineer Cochin creates a new aircraft project. Foreign spies are trying to steal the plane's blueprints, but the Soviet secret services are not asleep.

A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.

A new design aircraft flies higher, farther and faster than all others. Enemy intelligence agents are trying to infiltrate the cottage of the inventor Professor Bogolyubov and steal the drawings of the aircraft.

During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.

The son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter adventures in Patagonia, Australia, and New Zealand...

The movie about events of October revolution of 1917 and Lenin's role in the organization of revolt of Bolsheviks.

A middle-aged pilot Ivan Baranov falls in love with the beginning operatic singer Natasha Kulikova, having become acquainted with her during the forced landing of his plane.

A musically talented shepherd gets his big chance when he is mistaken for a famous conductor.

A World War II era Soviet war film, focusing on the role of the Red Navy rather than land forces, and reviving the 1920s concept of the collective hero.

Talented cabbie with aspirations as a singer spends afterhours practicing with an amateur opera company, ignoring his sweetheart, the femme cab dispatcher.

Stalingrad is a 1943 Soviet documentary. The film illustrates the famous battle of the Red Army with the Germans for Stalingrad.

Designed as a successor to "They Met In Moscow", with the same director, star and composer, "Six P. M." (1946 American release title) has two artillery officers meeting an attractive girl in Moscow between battles. One falls in love with her and they vow to meet in Moscow on a bridge at Six P.M. when the war ends. The war puts them on diverse trails, but the pledge is fulfilled against a setting of Moscow's famous fireworks displays.

An epic tale filmed during the Second World War. Russian heroes Nikita Kozhemyaka and Bulat Balagur save the Russian land from the enemy hordes of Kashchei the Immortal and free the beautiful Marya Morevna.

Valeriy Chkalov is a name-dream, a name-legend and not only for passionate admirers of the heavenly spheres. He became the first pilot to cross the North Pole and land in America. The brave, daring, mischievous, often reckless conqueror of the sky in the bright performance of Vladimir Belokurov was not at all like the flat, one-sided, stencil characters inhabiting the films of that time.

A light-hearted satire of manners and morals telling the story of two sisters that fall in love with the other's boyfriend. Complications arise. Valentina Serova is a prim professor who sets out to teach army lieutenant Eugene Samoilov/Yvengeni Samojlov some lessons in math but winds up learning lessons in love from him. Released in the US in 1946 as "Four Hearts" with the English titles written by Charles Clement.

The film tells about front-line friendship and love. Three friends: journalist Misha Weinstein and two pilots, Major Nikolay Ermolov and Andrey Panov, promised to meet each other after the war. During one of the reconnaissance flights, the plane under the command of Ermolov was shot down by the Nazis and the pilot, with his navigator and journalist, took refuge in an abandoned hut, where they decided to defend to the last.

The Second World War. A new L-2 heavy duty gun is being supplied to the Soviet Army. German intelligence needs to seize a new secret weapon.

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.

After the war, infinite numbers of refugees leave in search of a new home. They now stand in the hall of a large mansion, waiting to receive their deeds of ownership for sections of land that the lord of the manor had left behind after he fled. Among them is the young Jeruscheit who, during her travels, had to bury one of her own children. Her husband has been declared missing, and up until now she has had little purpose in life. But then she discovers it: to work, to build, and to help others. And maybe someday Jeruscheit will find her family.

After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless... Gerhard Lamprecht built his reputation during the 1920s and '30s with films like Emil and the Detectives (1931, script Billy Wilder) and socially-critical Berlin films based on the drawings of Heinrich Zille. In Somewhere in Berlin-his first postwar film, made just months after the cessation of hostilities-he portrays the people of the shattered city with precision and psychological realism.