An “ostern” (Soviet western) about the end of the Russian Civil War. A group of former Red Army soldiers, now Chekists (state security officers), are entrusted with conveying gold confiscated from the bourgeoisie to Moscow, but are robbed first by White Guards and then by bandits...

Nikita Mikhalkov’s directorial debut is considered a movie classic. It was shown at several international festivals.

A society of garage owners meets to discuss a hot topic: some members will have to lose their garages to make way for a new road. In the midst of the fractious debate, it turns out that someone has locked the door to the room and hidden the key—everyone will have to spend the entire night under the same roof.

Filmed in just 24 days, Eldar Ryazanov’s touching comedy, based on a real-life meeting that he once attended, has become a classic.

An engineer creates a time machine and accidentally brings Ivan the Terrible to the USSR. At the same time, a tsar-lookalike and a burglar robbing the apartment next door are accidentally transferred to the cut-throat Middle Ages.

The comedy is based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s little-known play Ivan Vasilyevich and, like many comic films by the legendary Gaidai, topped the box office.  

Ostap Bender, a charming conman, is searching for diamonds hidden inside an antique set of chairs by the mother-in-law of a random acquaintance just before she died. The problem is that the chairs have been sold off individually and are now spread across the country...

This screen adaptation of the comic novel by satirical co-authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov became an instant movie classic thanks in large part to actor Archil Gomiashvili’s brilliant portrayal of Bender, and the many memorable lines that are still quoted today.

Two lovebirds stroll around Moscow until late at night, and in the morning discover that the Soviet Union is at war. The young man is called up for frontline service, while his girlfriend remains in Moscow and ends up marrying another man.

The film is not recommended to those of an overly sensitive disposition. The jury at Cannes in 1958 sobbed so much that they awarded it the festival’s highest award, the Palme d’Or.

Engineer Nadia is past 30 and worried that she is not married yet. Schoolfriend Susanna decides to help her by getting hold of some fashionable outfits on the black market, and teaching her the methods of "scientific seduction." But the main thing is self-training, which involves repeating the mantra: "I am the most charming and attractive."

See for yourself how it all turns out in what is one of the most popular comedy films of the perestroika era.

In this sequel to Operation Y, Shurik goes on an expedition to the Caucasus to learn about local customs and drinking toasts. The locals refuse to give toasts unless Shurik drinks with them, and on one occasion he is even offered to observe a highly unusual custom—bride-stealing, which turns out not to be staged.

Another beloved Soviet comedy, which gave birth to a meme about the model Soviet woman, who should be “a student, a Komsomol member, and simply beautiful.”

This film, about the relationship between the girlfriend of a crime boss and a musician she meets by chance, became a symbol of Gorbachev’s perestroika.

This was largely due to the soundtrack, which was recorded by various underground Soviet rock bands, including the legendary Kino and their iconic song “We Want Changes!”