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War

Sashka

Sashka

August 7, 1981

A story of Sashka - a young Red Army soldier fighting in the WWII.

Gallipoli

Gallipoli

August 13, 1981

As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.

Rise and Fall of Idi Amin

Rise and Fall of Idi Amin

July 16, 1981

The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.

We Take Everything Upon Ourselves

We Take Everything Upon Ourselves

July 14, 1981

During the final months of the World War II, a group of special forces sailors, under the command of Lieutenant Balandin, receives a secret order of special importance to destroy enemy tankers, seaplanes and gun installations to ensure the free landing of their troops.

Al-Qadisiyya

Al-Qadisiyya

July 13, 1981

A historical epic about the battle of Qadiseya, which was helmed by the Arabian knight Saad Ibn Abi Waqas, and which enabled Muslims from conquering Persia in 636 A.D.

Find a Way, Comrade

Find a Way, Comrade

July 9, 1981

Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.

The Fall of Italy

The Fall of Italy

July 7, 1981

The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistence movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy young man joins the resistence, he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a spy for the Italians. As a result of his liaison and her activity, they are both executed by a Communist comrade - a previous friend. The comrade is dedicated to the hard-line policies of the resistence, until he himself falls in love with the daughter of a bourgeois landowner on the island - a landowner who has collaborated with the Italians. Neither the Italian occupying army (one officer is shown in an attempted rape scene) nor the resistence fighters are stereotyped forces for good or evil, but all are equally subject to the dehumanizing effects of war.

The Old Man and the Enemy

The Old Man and the Enemy

July 5, 1981

World War II. Italian fascists have interned in the South a lot of people who fought them on the 7th of April 1939 when they came to Albania. Among them, there's an old man whom they call "Daja" (uncle), who fought along with the youth.

Curfew

Curfew

July 3, 1981

Bai he hua

Bai he hua

July 1, 1981

La seducción

La seducción

July 1, 1981

Nanchang Uprising

Nanchang Uprising

July 1, 1981

A Battle Journal

June 20, 1981

A man, feeling guilty and depressed over a life-and-death decision he made while rock climbing, which left his friend dead, regains hope and the will to live when an elderly man gives him a diary belonging to a soldier during the Korean War.

Escape to Victory

Escape to Victory

June 17, 1981

A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.

The Order: Do Not Open Fire

The Order: Do Not Open Fire

June 6, 1981

A movie about a Soviet soldiers on the Japanese borders during 1941.

Little Alexander

Little Alexander

June 6, 1981

May of 1945. Soviet soldiers conducting an operation to rescue the children in a small town in the territory of Germany.

Night Witches

Night Witches

June 6, 1981

Film will be based on the female flying unit that fought in the Battle of Moscow. They were dubbed "Night Witches" by the frightened German soldiers because of the deadly stealth of their light planes.

Fact

Fact

June 4, 1981

Facts is a dramatization of a massacre in a Lithuanian village during World War II when Nazis rounded up over 100 men, women, and children accused of partisan activity and then torched the houses in which they were held. Using Russian interrogations of a few survivors, the testimony of villagers, and some of the Germans responsible for the killing, the film gradually reconstructs the event and its context.

State Border: Vol. 2. Peaceful Summer of '21

State Border: Vol. 2. Peaceful Summer of '21

May 27, 1981

On instructions from Polish intelligence, a group of bandits dress up in Red Army uniforms and attack a Soviet border town.

Sugar House

Sugar House

May 22, 1981

In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young sons Martin and Ondra move to her deceased husband's native village at the foot of the Kralický Snezník mountains. Life in the borderlands is far from easy for the lonely woman. The village is almost deserted, food supplies are delayed; the Werwolf (Nazi guerrilla squads) are hiding in the mountains, and shooting is heard from time to time. The elder son Ondra (Michal Dlouhý) is helping out his mother and at the same time absorbing intense new experiences. He meets an old Czech resident Skurek (Lubomír Kostelka), German women working in the forest, soldiers from the engineering units removing the mines, and a young first lieutenant. At night he dreams about his dead father whom he loved very much. This is why he runs away from home when he finds out that the lieutenant is courting his mother.