Vasiliy Shukshin Movies

In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin, and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.

The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost...

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the...

A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love...

This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five...

A film anthology featuring three stories: 1) “The Capron Christmas Tree” - Two men and a city dandy, courting a village girl, return home...

In Berlin, Lieutenant Yartsev's infantry and Tzvetaev's battery fight their way in the U-Bahn. Captain Neustroev's company is selected to hoist the...

The escaped prisoner Kolya comes to a lonely hut lost in the forest where grandfather Nikitich whiles away his days. The grandfather hospitably...

Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened...

The village teacher asks the driver Gorlov to take her son, a first-grader, to the city and buy him a school suit. Reluctantly yielding to the woman,...

The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr...

An irritated truck driver decides to quit his job. However, his boss refuses to return the employment record book. The resulting scandal unexpectedly...

The film is based on the early autobiographical stories of Vasily Makarovich Shukshin. A bright, emotionally rich movie about the childhood of a boy...

A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the...

A comedy based on three short novels by Vasiliy Shukshin.

At the end of the Second World War, Fedor is demobilized and returns home where he meets a homeless boy, small Fedor. They decide to live together....

On their way to a Black Sea resort, a Siberian tractor driver and his wife make new friends and take a detour to Moscow.

A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan.