Movies: Vgik

The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tar...

Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village....

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 are scarred by the trauma of the Russian Empire of yesteryear....

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Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century....

A man tries to escape from his wife in order to visit an exhibition, where he sees a painting representing his own house....

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 mirror the adult world, leading them to discover the harshness of destiny...

The young Petrukha couple live in a village - a kind, docile husband and strict wife. Soon, twins are born to them....

This is the subject of ongoing discovery of the beauty of the world, that man makes in his life and in his work, which is being developed as part of a big city, presented during a day's work. This film starts and ends with the rotating image of the s...

Phone conversation between an abandoned husband and his friend....

A kaleidoscopic living diary of the underground rock scene in Leningrad just before perestroika....

The boy writes an essay at school in which he wants to be like his father - with mayonnaise, i.e. "MNS" (junior research fellow)....

The story is about a nasty boy who blackmails his older sister and the young man who is in love with her....

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession....

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 return to her flat....

Since early childhood I have been playing different games. And the older I get, the more dangerous it is for me to lose, and the more dangerous it is for others to win. God! Leave me one game - hide and seek. This is the only game I agree to play for...

Winter. Snow is sweeping, a blizzard howls. The wife of old Foma died. Fomka takes a coffin on a sleigh to a village graveyard along a deserted, dusty winter road, and he sees that Nastasiya is walking barefoot in the snow - alive, young, as on a pho...

In their first collaboration Melkonian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov film two neighbour families that both claim ownership of a huge mulberry tree growing in the middle of their two houses....

A young schoolboy tries to help the girl he likes to pass a test....

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....