Nikita Mikhalkov

This is a story of the 1963 Soviet youth. A young worker from remote taiga stays in Moscow for a day, en route to his deceased friend's home town, for a meeting with the editor of "Youth" magazine, where he posted his first narrative. He spends the day among friends and their everyday routines.

1996 Oscar(r)-winning tale of a Soviet hero whose happy family is suddenly targeted by Stalin's secret police.

An epic chronicling 6 decades of 20th century Russia, SIBERIADE is Konchalovsky's (RUNAWAY TRAIN) passionate and ambitious examination of the Soviet spirit. When a rural village is invaded by an oil-drilling crew, a multi-generational conflict develops between ancestral reverence for the earth and government-ordained industrialization. Russian with English subtitles.