Tsar to Lenin

Open files

A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the threatening mus

1975

Ein Traum von Revolution

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A young generation was taking the reins in a country o

2024

Eyes on Russia: From the Caucasus to Moscow

An extremely rare subject by the famed still photographer. A 1934 short.

The Centuries Surround Me with Fire

A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), the groundbreaking Soviet poet and diss

1976

Veterans

'Veterans', focuses on WW2 veterans, once fighters in the Red Army and now uprooted immigrants, fighting for their place in society. These people, who

Stasi, un État contre son peuple

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six milli

2021

Rock

Documentary — featuring both interviews and live footage — about underground rock music in Russia, during the last years of the Perestroika.

1988

PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster

Jeremy Clarkson tells the dramatic story of the Arctic convoys of the Second World War, from Russia to the freezing Arctic Ocean.

2014

The Message of the XIII Party Congress (on Cooperation)

1925 (Soviet Union)

1925

Balaton retró

Scenes from holiday life at Lake Balaton in Hungary during the communism.

2007

Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution

2008

And When They Shall Ask

1983

Do Útero Ao Túmulo

2022

Comrade, Where Are You Today?

In 1988, 20-year-old Kirsi Marie Liimatainen travels from Finland to the GDR, to study Marxism-Leninism at the International Youth Academy. In summer

2016

The First Years

1950

Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single

2021

The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

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 re

2021

The Hitler–Stalin Pact

How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivating and detailed story of the diplomatic fiasco tha

2019

Palace for the People

The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.

2018

My Socialist Home

"My Socialist Home" is a documentary film exploring the significance of gender in the constitution of domestic space in the socialist and postsocialis

2021