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Summary: Few knew that Stalin spent his last night in the arms of a young Australian woman. Few still knew that their "love-child" brought Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now.
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: R

Country: Australia
Language: English
Domestic: $ 838,368
Summary: In the Soviet Union in 1936, shadow of Stalin's repressions lie on a famous revolution hero. The accusations of being him a foreign spy are nonsense, and all known that, but a slow process of his life's downfall is already running.
Runtime: 2 h 15 min
MPAA: R

Countries: Russia, France
Language: Russian
Movie budget: $ 2,800,000
Domestic: $ 2,302,338
International: $ 11,123
Summary: A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.
Runtime: 1 h 22 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: Polish
Domestic: $ 3,827,060
International: $ 7,329,776
Summary: The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in h...
Runtime: 2 h 17 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Domestic: $ 93,292
Summary: A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution). Some knowledge of the subject is essential in orde...
Runtime: 0 h 10 min

Language: Czech
Summary: A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
Runtime: 2 h 21 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Summary: In a small isolated village, in 1953, a wedding is interrupted by the news about the death of Stalin. Because any public celebration is forbidden, they decide to turn the happy event into a silent wedding.
Runtime: 1 h 27 min

Language: Romanian
Movie budget: $ 1,500,000
Summary: A Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: Approved

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,200,000
Summary: Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.
Runtime: 2 h 33 min
MPAA: PG

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Georgian
Domestic: $ 215,496
Summary: Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.
Runtime: 2 h 13 min
MPAA: PG-13

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,701,859
International: $ 21,470,342
Summary: An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Runtime: 2 h 01 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Poland
Language: Polish
Movie budget: $ 4,000,000
Domestic: $ 118,095
International: $ 14,650,356
Summary: Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Runtime: 2 h 04 min
MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,516,000
Summary: Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min

Production: Shochiku
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Summary: A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.
Runtime: 2 h 17 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 50,000,000
Domestic: $ 1,224,330
International: $ 11,726,763
Summary: Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
Runtime: 1 h 35 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Domestic: $ 17,923
International: $ 14,626
Summary: In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
Runtime: 1 h 15 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Ukrainian
Summary: A documentary about the life of Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturyan. Among other events, the film covers Khachaturyan's difficulties working as a creative artist during the Stalin era.
Runtime: 1 h 23 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 15,084
Summary: In June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is executed. Among the survivors are Dr. Alek...
Runtime: 2 h 01 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: French
Movie budget: $ 11,500,000
Domestic: $ 2,321,029
International: $ 3,710,492
Summary: During the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur masterminds the amphibious invasion of Inchon in September 1950.
Runtime: 2 h 20 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 46,000,000
Domestic: $ 5,200,986