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The Keepers

Soviet live-action film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, aired once in 1991 by Leningrad Television and then thought lost. It was rediscovered in 2021. It includes scenes of Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-wight omitted from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Suns, kurš prata dziedāt

Operation «Helium»

On the example of the history of the discovery of the "solar substance" Helium, the history of the most important discoveries in the field of physics and chemistry of the early XX century is given.

Оба-на!

Code of Silence. On the Dark Side of the Moon

An Elevator for the Transitional Man

Zītaru dzimta

Tragedy of the Zitars family based on the novel by Vilis Lacis.

Women Who Got Lucky

Plot revolves around the post-war decades and tells about the fate of former participants of the Great Patriotic War - Vera Boglyuk, Nina Verkhovskaya, Dusya Koroleva, Zina Skvortsova and Natasha Druzhinina.

Eternal Husband

The drama of Eugene Markovsky is based on the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky's “Eternal Husband”.

Murder at Cloister Ponds

Spirali

In an extreme emergency, a professor’s brain is transplanted into the body of a recidivist who died in a disaster, leading to dramatic consequences.

Под куполом цирка

All Costs Paid

All Costs Paid is a Soviet TV miniseries produced by Studio Ekran. The director Aleksei Saltykov well known for his film The Chairman with Mikhail Ulyanov, an acclaimed Russian actor playing a main character. All Costs Paid is one of the first Soviet feature films that shows the war in Afghanistan. Film has unusually truthful point of view on that period of Soviet Era and on the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

Stepan Sergeich

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Sunday, Half Past Six

Young lawyer Sergei Krasheninnikov is assigned to a case involving the death of a young woman. As he questions people who saw her on the day she died, Sergei begins to realize that there is much more to the story than meets the eye.

Л.И.Брежнев

The Life of Klim Samgin

The life of the intellectual Samgin, depicted against the backdrop of the grand panorama of Russian life from 1877 to 1917.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins

The fifth and final part of the cycle of Soviet television feature films, filmed by director Igor Maslennikov based on the stories of the English writer Arthur Conan Doyle about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. In the first part based on the works - "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Second Stain". In the second part based on the works - "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans", and "His Last Bow".