Iya Marks

A satirical comedy with elements of metaphysical horror about religion in rural 1960s Soviet Russia. Notable for using first-person pseudo-documentary "found footage" technique framing the movie as the creation of the protagonist, who is returns to his home village from the city to discover that a local drunk has formed a doomsday cult.

On the participation of Komsomol members in the restoration of the coal industry of Donbass.

About hardships of the first years of War, which fell to the lot of ordinary people in Ukraine, who got under the yoke of fascist occupation, and heroic struggle against the invaders. A young Russian woman asks a Red Army soldier to spend the night with her in the wake of the Nazi invasion. Fearing she may soon perish, the woman hopes for one night of romance before what could be a horrible demise.

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.

Kuzma Kuzmich Iordanov, de désespoir d'avoir perdu sa femme au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, s'adonne à la boisson et survit grâce à des petits boulots. Un jour, il aide une dame âgée à transporter une machine à laver chez elle, mais en tentant de la rattraper, il chute et se blesse assez sévèrement. Hospitalisé, il reçoit la visite de la dame qui lui raconte l'histoire de sa vie, ainsi que celle de Natasha, une pauvre orpheline de son village. Il décide de s'y rendre et de faire croire qu'il est son père. Natasha le croit tellement, qu e Kuzma décide de changer de vie et de sa maintenir sur la bon chemin.