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1) Stalingrad
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Russian
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An epic look at the battle that turned the tide of World War II. A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there. The scale of the battle contrasts dramatically with the human drama of the Russian soldiers, the few remaining civilians and their invaders into Stalingrad.
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In December 1941, a German tank column is moving towards Moscow. During a mission to stop the enemy advance, Soviet pilot Nikolai Komlev's Il-2 is shot down in enemy territory. To survive, Komlev must face hunger, extreme cold, evading wild wolves, and avoiding Nazi soldiers. When he finally makes it back to safety, he faces the strongest challenge of them all.
3) Beanpole
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Russian
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1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
5) Paradise
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Russian
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Not recommended for ages under 17 without parental permission.
Paradise tells the compelling story of three individuals, Olga, Jules and Helmut, whose paths cross amidst the devastation of war. Olga, a Russian aristocratic immigrant and member of the French Resistance, is arrested by Nazi police for hiding Jewish children during a surprise raid. As her punishment, she is sent to jail where she meets Jules, a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned...
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Criterion collection volume 146
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Russian
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Dramatization of love and disloyalty during World War II.
7) Come and see
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Russian
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As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty, rendered with feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov₂s subjective camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, is...
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Russian
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"In the depths of World War II, a powerful secret Soviet rocket launcher is accidentally left during an unexpected retreat of Russian troops. Lethal in the hands of the Germans, a special operations unit is sent to rescue the launcher, to ensure the Germans can never find and use it to win the war. Against all the odds, the unit must fight to retrieve the secret weapon, no matter what it takes"--Container.
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Criterion collection volume 397
Language
Russian
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An evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boy's war-torn youth. 12-year old Ivan works as a spy at the World War II eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Soviet officers try to take care of this boy-child.
11) Thunder of war
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Russian
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The true story of a group of 28 soldiers of the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division, who stopped the advance on Moscow by 54 Nazi tanks of the 11th Panzer Division for several days.
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Russian
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The Ascent tracks two Byelorussian peasant soldiers - one on the path to redemption, the other to hell - as they try to evade Nazi forces during World War II.
Wings: Suffocated by modern-day living, a buttoned-down headmistress reminisces about her glory days as a World War II pilot.
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Russian
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WWI 1942: Rzhev, USSR. After one of the many brutal battles between the Red Army and the Nazis near the village of Ovsyannikovo, only half of the Red Army₂s company survives. Freezing cold, with little to no reinforcements, the company receives the impossible order from Soviet headquarters to keep the village at all costs. While pinned in this crucial strategical position, the members of the company cope with their fear while also finding the strength...
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When Veronica's lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marrys him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war.
18) Ragnarok
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Ragnarok» - kniga iz serii drevnikh mifov, pereosmyslennykh sovremennymi pisatelyami iz raznykh stran, sredi kotorykh Antoniya S'yuzen Bayyett, Ali Smit, David Grossman, Su Tun, Ol'ga Tokarchuk, Viktor Pelevin i dr. Ostraya, liricheskaya, avtobiograficheskaya kniga o pyatiletney devochke, evakuirovannoy vo vremya Vtoroy mirovoy voyny iz Londona v sel'skuyu mestnost'. Ona perezhivayet za ottsa, voyennogo letchika, ch'ya sud'ba tragicheski ne yasna,...
19) Red ghost
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Russian
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Vyazma USSR. WWII, 1941. A mythical lone-wolf fighter, known as The Red Ghost, roams the Russian forests sniping and killing Nazis one by one. He's so destructive that a special unit of the Nazis' Wehrmacht is ordered to search for and kill him. Simultaneously, a band of Soviet soldiers behind enemy lines trudges through the snow, hopeful to find safety, warmth, and vodka. Instead, they find themselves trapped at a farm and surrounded by the Wehrmacht...
20) Trezorium: roman
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Russian
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Trezorium -- ėto vospitatelʹnoe uchrezhdenie, kotoroe odin iz glavnykh geroev (nemet͡skiĭ pedagog) zatei͡al, ni mnogo ni malo, v getto -- v tom samom, gde v to zhe samoe vremi͡a zhil so svoimi vospitannikami I͡Anush Korchak, kotoryĭ zdesʹ dovolʹno prozrachno zovetsi͡a "Skazochnikom". Pan Direktor (tot samyĭ pedagog-nemet͡s) Korchaku otchetlivo protivopostavli͡aetsi͡a, a sistema Direktora -- ėto znachitelʹno uglublennai͡a sistema...
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