Set in the Soviet Union in 1937, this investigative drama follows one man’s mission for justice within a corrupt system.

Set during Stalin’s Great Purge in the 1930s, Sergei Loznitsa’s film follows a naive young lawyer as he attempts to navigate ...

The Ukrainian director of Two Prosecutors, who studied maths and AI, says although a film may be about something tragic, ‘it ...

Aside from the incredible amount of deaths during the Communist dictatorship in the Soviet Union, an often overlooked key ...

“Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few today – but whose work was once seen by over 40 million people in the former ...

The team behind 'Soviet Jeans,' the breakout hit that won a pair of awards at Series Mania in 2024, are back with "The Last ...

Instead of obsessing over the fictional Cheburashka, Russians should be focused on more important things like the rebirth of ...

It’s rare that we look to Soviet-era cinema to find positive queer representation, but surprisingly enough, one overlooked silent masterpiece is being reassessed for just this reason. Subscribe to our ...

It was movie night at the Kremlin. The date was May 23, 1943. The Red Army had defeated the Germans at the Battle of Stalingrad only three months earlier. For the first time, it looked like the Allies ...

In Soviet author Mikhail Bulgakov's classic novel The Master And Margarita, first published in 1966, the devil -- named Woland -- tells writer Ivan Bezdomny that "manuscripts don't burn." The thread ...

When I was an undergrad in film school, one of the pillar courses was a two-semester film history class that would act as a broad survey to give us a foundation as aspiring filmmakers and workers.