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Summary: Poland in the Stalin period. This is the dramatic story of three people: an honest and idealistic communist, a Polish RAF pilot, and a ZMW (the Rural Youth Association) activist. Secretary of the Workers' Party, Jakuszyn, intervenes on behalf of Pioter, a former officer of the British air force, unfairly accused of collaboration with bandits. Pioter is sentenced to ten years in prison, and Jakuszyn, for the alleged 'lack of vigilance', loses his post. Anna, a young ZWM activist, also tries to save Pioter. All in vain. Bitter and lonely, she marries a journalist Rydz, an opportunist and...

Director : Janusz Morgenstern

Production Year : 1964

Duration : 93

Language : Polish

March of the Liberators

The film presents a new light on scenes of World War II and the role it played in the outbreak of Stalin's policy. Braun, using many previously unknown to the public materials from Russian archives, based inter alia on the relationship of the former GRU officer, Viktor Suvorov, presents a number of evidence that the Soviets are at least co-responsible for the outbreak of war. But this is not the end The director clearly suggests that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Soviet seizure of eastern Polish territories and the Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova would be only a prelude to Stalin's attack...

Director : Grzegorz Braun

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 57

Language : Polish

Clear skies

The action takes place in the USSR in 1950. Flying Alexei Astakhov fought and fell into captivity, then fled. In peacetime, Alexei collided with distrust and suspicion - as a soldier, visited the prisoner, and thus "tarnished moral image of the Soviet pilot." Alex suffers, can not find work in a profession and place in life. His love saves Sasha Lviv, which she kept through the war and all the difficulties of post-war time. After Stalin's death Astakhova are in the Defense Ministry, which returned to the star of Hero of the Soviet Union. Alex returns to the Aviation and experienced aircraft.

Director : Grigori Chukhrai

Production Year : 1961

Duration : 110

Language : Russian

D-Day to Berlin - The Dream That Died

A docu drama. The last episode. On 16 April 1945 the Soviets began their final assault on Berlin and fourteen days later Hitler was dead. But even before the victory celebrations were over, a new chill gripped the alliance. A new European order had emerged, but it was dominated by another dictator - the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 53

Language : English

הקורבנות העלומים של משפטי פראג 1952

סרט תיעודי קצר. ביקורת אודות אי אזכורם של שאר הנאשמים במשפטי פראג , שנות החמישים של המאה הקודמת. בסרט נטען כי רק מרדכי אורן ושמעון אורנשטיין מוכרים לציבור בישראל, אך לא נאשמים אחרים כדוגמת ד"ר סטפן סובל, שהיה ציר בשגרירות ישראל ב'צכולסובקיה. בסרט מתראיינת בתו של סובל, יהודית. כמו כן מתראיינת ההסטוריונית ד"ר שולמית בינה. מוצגים ספרים על משפטי פראג וידיעות עתונאיות.

Director : Sara Streichman

Production Year : 2022

Duration : 12

Language : Hebrew

Song Searcher

A documentary film. The story of musician and scholar Moisei Iakovlevich Beregovskii who crisscrossed Ukraine with a phonograph in hand during the years of Soviet history to record and study the traditional music of Ukrainian Jewry. The film contains footage and archival recordings.

Director : Elena Yakovich

Duration : 83

Language : English, Russian

The Berlin Air Lift: the story of a great achievement

A British propaganda short. In 1945 the USSR and the British, French and American armies occupied Germany. Germany and Berlin were split into eastern and western zones. Relations between the four powers were strained immediately after the war and co-operation began to break down in 1947. Early 1948, the three Western powers decided to amalgamate their zones and introduce a new currency, the Deutschmark. Stalin was unhappy with Allied plans to rebuild Germany. He tried to close off West Berlin by cutting all road, water and rail links. Berlin was therefore accessible only by air. The British and Americans...

Production Year : 1949

Duration : 11

Language : English

The Law of Survival

A Documentary combined with drama footage. The film tells the story of Polina Gelman, the only Jewish woman awarded the Gold Star Hero of the Soviet Union. According to Red Army regulations, a bomber could receive the Gold Star only after making one hundred successful flights. From 1942-1945, Polina Gelman’s flight log recorded 869 combat flights and 1300 hours in the air. This documentary is a tribute to this woman and also deals with broader issue of Jewish participation in WWII.

Director : Max Royz

Duration : 40

Language : English

Fatalist - The Story of Semyon Rosenfeld

סרט תיעודי. סיפורו של סמיון (שלמה) רוזנפלד. השורד האחרון מהמרד במחנה ההשמדה סוביבור אשר הלך לעולמו בגיל 97 , בחודש יוני 2019.

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 53

Language : Russian

Participate and Win

A Documentary film about the famous russian violonist Leonid Kogan.. Born in the Soviet Union, Leonid Kogan began to play violin at the age of 6. When he was 9 years old, his violin teacher said to the boy's parents that their son was too good for him. The same year Leonid was sent to Moscow to study violin at the music school for gifted children. Kogan's talent blossomed so much that in 1951 the Soviet government sent him to compete at the prestigious violin contest in Brussels. Over there he took the first prize and from that moment on Kogan's career took off. For 30 years he was recognized among the best in...

Director : Semyon Pinkhasov, Nikita Liamzine

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 48

Language : English, Russian

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