Viaggio nella vertigine / 20098.02 voti

Nel 1936 Eugenia Ginzburg (Emily Watson), un’insegnante di letteratura, rifiuta di omaggiare Stalin durante un incontro e, ingiustamente accusata di simpatie verso i tartari, viene arrestata subito dopo. Comincia così la lunga peregrinazione della donna che, di carcere in carcere, viene trasferita nel Kolyma, un terribile gulag, dove è destinata al lavoro duro. Qui, tra sofferenze e umiliazioni, Eugenia conosce il medico del campo, con cui instaura subito un rapporto profondo che le permette di ritornare a sognare e a sperare durante i dieci lunghi anni di prigionia.

Gulag, una storia sovietica / 2020

La miniserie si basa su documenti inediti e racconta il funzionamento dei gulag, i campi di lavoro sovietici in cui venivano confinati gli oppositori del regime dell'Unione Sovietica.

The Hot Snow / 1972

In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors.

Sniper: Weapons of Retaliation / 2009

This world war two story depicts the personal war between a Soviet sniper and a German sniper. Their feud continues after the war in Soviet occupied Germany. At the same time a Nazi rocket scientist continues his research while a Soviet secret police team arrives from Moscow to find hidden Nazi rocket research documents and rocket propulsion systems.

Reverse / 2009

A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secrets can be kept.

State Funeral / 2019

The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film is based on unique archive footage, shot in the USSR on March 5 - 9, 1953, when the country mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.

Chervonyi / 2017

Year 1947. Commander of UPA Danylo Chervonyi gets into the terrible slaughter of Stalin's camps, where he must go through hell and inhumane prison conditions, prosecution of criminal leaders, meanness, betrayal and despair. Danylo finds the strength to resist repression of the camp commander and makes a desperate attempt to break free, raising the first rebel in the camp.

Seeru / 2020

A guy from a small-town takes on a ruthless criminal lawyer for his friend and sister(s).

Последний бронепоезд / 2006

Our Own / 2004

It is August 1941. With the battle line far away in the east, three soldiers who have managed to escape from captivity find it difficult to hide: the territory is occupied by the enemy. The local woods are not safe: you can easily get embogged. Are the villagers loyal? Nobody can say. There is an old man who offers to help them. Is he reliable enough? He may kill them or report them to the local German authorities. Anything may happen, but one of them, the sniper, is his son who is his youngest, his dearest.

The Great Water / 2004

An ailing communist reflects on a young boy childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia.

Noche de Apuestas - La Película / 2023

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman / 2018

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate.

The Red Soul / 2017

More than 50 years after the death of Joseph Stalin, Russia is still divided. Was Stalin a great leader who made Russia into a superpower? Or was he a ruthless dictator, responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people? Virtually no family has been left untouched by the consequences of Stalin’s regime, and in every corner of the country, victims’ families are struggling with history. Throughout society, Stalin’s popularity is growing, and there is a yearning for a sense of national unity. The Red Soul shows how the past lives on in present-day Russia, and thus makes its mark on the future.

World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel / 2011

This is an interesting documentary about Stalin, his rise to power, and the invasion of the USSR by Germany in WWII. It's split into two parts, the first a general overview of the early history. The second part is the details of WWII and after. David Reynolds does an excellent job of explaining what happened with snippets from diaries, letters and other contemporaneous accounts. Well-assembled historical work.

Pozdrav / 1949

Geheimes Russland: Moskaus Unterwelten / 2018

Возрождение Сталинграда / 1944