Siberiade (1979)

Summary: In the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.

Release Date: May 16, 1980

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy

Writers: Valentin Ezhov

, Andrey Konchalovskiy

Runtime: 3 h 10 min

Production: Mosfilm, Studio Trite, Trete Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

The Ascent (1977)

Summary: Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

Release Date: April 02, 1977

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Larisa Shepitko

Writers: Vasiliy Bykov

, Yuri Klepikov

, Larisa Shepitko

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

Production: Mosfilm, Trete Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie

Distributor: Seagull Films, Eclipse from the Criterion Collection, International Film Circuit, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Ivan's Childhood (1962)

Summary: During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

Release Date: May 09, 1962

Genres: Drama, War

Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky