Железная нижняя юбка (1956)

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.

Bettany Hughes investigates the revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx.

March 9th, 1953, 5 million people attend Stalin’s funeral. A revolutionary lacking in both charisma and stature, Stalin came to power almost by chance, and his 30-year reign saw him become the most Machiavellian and bloodthirsty of dictators. The man who insisted on being called “The Father of the People” massacred his own countrymen, and was responsible for the death of some 20 million people. Soon forgetting his former ideological stance, he mercilessly crushed anyone who opposed him, in both word and deed. His camps for reform through hard labor – known as “gulags” – turned 18 million Russians into slaves. He not only murdered his opponents but his best friends too, and even sometimes members of his own family. His cruelty knew no bounds. Through colorized archive material rich in previously unseen footage, and many accounts from the period including some from Stalin himself, this documentary tells the story of a man who turned a dream into a nightmare.

Кунашир - один из основных островов курильского архипелага, лежащий в 16 км от Японии. Остров был занят советскими войсками в 1945 году. Годом позже, после короткого периода совместного проживания, 17 000 японцев и айнов, живших на Курилах и Сахалине, были депортированы на остров Хоккайдо. С тех пор Япония претендует на возврат четырех курильских островов. Мирный договор между двумя странами до сих пор не подписан.

Born in Austria in 1903, Jacob Rosenfeld was imprisoned in Dachau. He manages to flee and takes refuge in Shanghai, like 30,000 other people. He exercised his profession there and sought to get involved in 1941 alongside the revolutionaries of the Chinese Communist Party. Rosenfeld becomes a surgeon on the war front between China and Japan. Thanks to his talents as a doctor and an organizer, he soon became close to Mao Tsé-Toung. In 1945, he was appointed general, responsible for the health of the armies and the entire liberated area. He is now called General Luo. Later, he became the Minister of Health of the first communist government. Thanks to his journal found in 2001, this documentary traces its extraordinary destiny.

The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interrogations, recruitment attempts, recorded and filmed with hidden devices; of how the secret services spied on every activity of ordinary citizens: nothing escaped the brutal system of control developed by the Soviets in the name of freedom.

Ronald Reagan hosts and narrates this documentary about the Communist threat to the free world. Alexander Kerensky, the first premier of the provisional Russian Government in 1917, formally introduces the film. This documentary traces the development of the Communist movement from birth, the Lenin years, its struggle for direction, the Stalin years (featuring a response by Leon Trotsky attacking the Stalin purges) and the ascendancy of Nikita Krushchev.

On the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea lies one of the most megalomaniac projects built by the Nazis. The ‘Monster by the Sea’, a colossus of brickwork that stretches for kilometres, intended as a futurist holiday resort for the inhabitants of the Third Reich. A paragon of ‘guilty architecture’. Later occupied by the communist regime, it has since the fall of the Wall fallen victim to property developers who have found it a tough nut to crack. Nico Weber’s Inside Prora uncovers the storied history of a project that symbolises the utopian intentions of modernism and the emergence of mass tourism.

Перед Новым годом всем хочется немного любви. Успешный бизнесмен Игорь ищет острых ощущений, а его девушка, сногсшибательная топ-модель, хочет, чтобы их отношения, наконец, вышли на новый уровень. В то же время в совершенно обычной семье Ирина жаждет снова разжечь страсть в своем муже. Вместе их всех случайно сводит приложение для обмена партнерами, и теперь предновогодняя ночь грозит стать по-настоящему незабываемой для всех… Исход эксперимента непредсказуем, ведь в это время возможно любое чудо, и даже на балкон скромного студента, живущего по соседству, может свалиться девушка его мечты.

Женщина знакомится с мужчиной на фоне общего интереса к ролевым играм АСМР. Их встречи напоминают мини-спектакли, но у каждого из них свое представление об отношениях.

Столичные пробки и бесконечная замена плитки на тротуарах, съемки отечественного кино и абсурдные ситуации с артистами, истории из жизни соседей и их собак.

The film recreates the events of 1905. In the center of the picture is the struggle of the proletariat, led by the Bolshevik party, against tsarism. The demonstration of labor unrest is replaced by episodes of the Russo-Japanese war, Black-Hundred demonstrations, accompanied by a pogrom of Jews, and beating of the intelligentsia. The film paints the attitude of the Mensheviks towards armed insurrection, reproduces the picture of barricade battles, the arrest of the Council of Workers' Deputies and the brutal reprisals of the tsarist autocracy with revolutionaries.

Filmmaker Ronald Levaco, journeys back to China, the nation of his boyhood days, to discover what became of an old friend of his family, Israel Epstein.

На дворе лихие годы перестройки, и Лена с сыном по прозвищу Картофелинка, как может, выживает в жестоком и беспощадном СССР. Вскоре побегов в цветные грезы телевизора оказывается недостаточно, и Лена принимает отчаянное решение — стать невестой по переписке. Уехав c сыном к американцу Джону, Лена понимает, что так и не обрела своего места в Америке. Всё, что она делала, совершалось для Картофелинки, который ещё на родине успел возненавидеть себя за то, что он гей. Но кто знает, сколько ещё открытий ждет Картофелинку, ведь новая страна — это только начало.

2025 год. Вспышка коронавируса навсегда изменила мир. К власти пришло единое мировое правительство, установившее коммунистическую систему и поработившее людей. Контакты сокращены до минимума, христианство под запретом, конституции, какой мы ее знали, больше не существует. В Германии собирается небольшая группа молодых людей. Они начинают вести подпольную революцию и готовы подорвать систему, чтобы вернуть себе свои права, веру и свободу.

Filmmaker Binevsa Bêrîvan travels to Armenia to capture the daily life, customs, and history of the country's Yazidi Kurdish community.

The plot of the film is based on three love stories. The events take place in Moscow, Baku and Africa, but most of them are related to the Azerbaijani capital. The film, shot in the comedy genre, takes place during the Great Patriotic War, when the Germans left the occupied territories.