Vgik Movies

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...

Ahmed’s father has only a day with his wife and son before he must return to war. With haunting, innocent cruelty, the children play games that...

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...

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...

A short movie and university exercise filmed in 1981.

Uldis Brauns' diploma film at VGIK

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

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 short diploma film based on a fairy tale by Yemelian Bukov and directed by Sergei Parajanov. The film was made in 1952, since that moment it was...

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

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...

A school boy finds a fallen pilot in the forest during the fire started by enemies.

The small town is asleep. Only the young wife of the elderly pharmacist Chernomordik, the owner of the pharmacy, is awake. She has already gone to...