September 1, 1967
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
July 11, 1967
An experimental film about peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into bloodshed and horror on the Eve of Italian occupation of the country.
July 10, 1967
1943 year. On the instructions of the military newspaper, the photojournalist Varvara Knyazhich goes to the front line to take some pictures of the knocked-down powerful German tank "Tiger". In a combat situation, she has to face a difficult relationship between officers and subordinates. During the execution of a journalistic assignment, Varya is literally two steps from death. But it is here that she is destined to find her love...
July 5, 1967
At the beginning of the People's Revolution of 1921, it tells about the friendship between Bold, a herdsman, and Mikhail, a Russian boatman, who live on the banks of a river near the border. Two old men who took part in the revolution will be killed by the enemy, but their children will live on. Shows the continuation of the holy friendship of their ancestors.
July 5, 1967
In the first days after the Second World War, as collaborators are being taken care of, a former partisan finds out that war never truly ends — not even in time of peace.
July 1, 1967
Villa's regiment demobilizes at the end of the Revolution, but the ruling faction in the provisional government isn't eager to see them reintegrate into civilian society.
June 22, 1967
In the first days of the Second World War, a young woman with three children is evacuated from the front-line zone to the Urals. After some time, she receives a funeral for her husband. But she has her little sons with her. The eldest son Kolya becomes a reliable assistant to his mother.
June 17, 1967
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.
June 15, 1967
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
June 14, 1967
This film ballad is dedicated to those who never returned home from WW2. A group of retreating Soviet soldiers, crossing a lunar terrain in a desperate attempt to escape death, is attacked by a German fighter plane that appears like a bolt from the blue. One by one they are killed. Then suddenly, in an unlikely denouement bordering on the mystical, the attacker is shot down with a simple rifle. For ideological reasons that defy understanding this film, one of Viktor Hres’ earliest works, was shelved in 1967 by Soviet censors. In 2010, it was restored by the Debut Studio of the Oleksander Dovzhenko Film Studio with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine.
June 8, 1967
Le Vent des Aurès – the first road movie of Algerian cinema – describes the transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation. While military repression is in full swing, a peasant woman finds herself alone in her mountain home when her only son is kidnapped by French soldiers shortly after her husband's death during a raid. One day, seeing a dead chicken, which she considers a bad omen, she decides to leave home and embarks on a painful journey through the mountains. Accompanied by a couple of chickens, she moves from one detention camp to another in a desperate search for her missing son. The film is inspired by the events experienced by the director's family.
June 6, 1967
The Nazis planted explosives to blow up the cities of Krakow and Prague, but the underground resistance in Poland works with the Russians to stop the disaster.
June 6, 1967
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
June 3, 1967
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
June 2, 1967
1943. Soviet intelligence Saeed Islambek, "26th", manages to infiltrate as an instructor in the SS special school, where defectors from Central Asia study. Loyal to his assistants become a scout-Uzbek Nadia, Secretary of the chief of the special school, and Deputy chief of the Gestapo Berg. When one of the most important military tasks are dying, sacrificing himself, Nadia and Sayid.
April 28, 1968
A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
May 10, 1967
A second part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.
May 9, 1967
A first part of story about a Soviet spies trying to infiltrate German Intelligence center "Saturn" during and after the WWII.
May 3, 1967
After breaking the enemy's rings, a partisan batch is left only with three wounded and two healthy fighters. Through his binoculars, the German captain Anders monitors the surviving soldiers who are walking through the fog in an effort to reach their brigade. Anders quietly starts a manhunt on wounded while anticipating their physical and mental exhaustion.
May 1, 1967
Winter 1941. A company of a machine-gun and artillery battalion was located in a small village, of which only 20 people remained. There is nowhere to retreat: Moscow is 50 km away. And the courageous fighters decide to take the fight to hold back the tank attack of the Nazis...