German Lavrov

Grusha's (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) husband has left her and she is now a single parent to her adolescent son Vitya (Vladimir Naumenko). Her brother Nikolay (Mikhail Ulyanov) is determined to hook her up with his friend Vladimir (the film's co-director Stanislav Lyubshin). For Grusha and Vladimir to have privacy to build up their relationship, Nikolay decides his nephew Vitya needs to stay out of the way, so he urges Vitya to come live with his family for a while. However, Grusha's not so sure about the arrangement. Based on a play by Vasiliy Shukshin.

Originally called World '68, later retitled The World of Today Romm’s film was conceived as an impassioned, large-scale essay on the origins of the 20th century and the subsequent reality the disappointed director felt slipping away from him. The film itself slipped away from him and was left unfinished at the time of his death. His younger colleagues, Marlen Khutsiev, Elem Klimov and German Lavrov, completed the film from the elements he left behind in addition to segments from Ordinary Fascism, closing the film with Romm’s ultimately optimistic outlook: "And still I believe that man is sensible..."

Originally called World '68, later retitled The World of Today Romm’s film was conceived as an impassioned, large-scale essay on the origins of the 20th century and the subsequent reality the disappointed director felt slipping away from him. The film itself slipped away from him and was left unfinished at the time of his death. His younger colleagues, Marlen Khutsiev, Elem Klimov and German Lavrov, completed the film from the elements he left behind in addition to segments from Ordinary Fascism, closing the film with Romm’s ultimately optimistic outlook: "And still I believe that man is sensible..."

Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny".

A sad story about a series of tragic events which happened in Greece during the seventies.

A woman is forced to examine the emptiness of her life in this stark drama from the Soviet Union. Lena (Yevgenya Uralova) is a woman in her late twenties who loves her boyfriend (Aleksandr Belyavsky) but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life.

Documento histórico, en los cuales se analiza el surgimiento del fascismo en Alemania como consecuencia de la gran crisis del capitalismo a finales de los años 20 y el auge del nazismo apoyado por el capital financiero alemán. Usando materiales fílmicos provenientes de los archivos nazis, Mikhail Romm, discípulo de Eisenstein, analiza mediante en un relato ameno e impactante, y muy irónico, el carácter populista del fascismo y el efecto de la propaganda en la psicología de masas, que llegó a extremos tales de hacer del ser humano simples máquinas de matar.

A story of Victor, a young man who is working in a big mine as driver.

Dos jóvenes científicos están explorando nuevos campos de la física nuclear. Dmitry Gusev y Kulikov Ilya son buenos amigos, pero están enamorados de la misma mujer. Dmitry se casa Lyolya y viven felices juntos. Tiene la suerte de realizar un descubrimiento importante. Por desgracia, se expone a la radiactividad durante los experimentos. Como resultado cae gravemente enfermo. Pero Dmitry tiene un espíritu fuerte.