No 6. Komissar
Year | 1967 |
IMDB rating | 7.6/10 |
Awards | 9 wins & 4 nominations |
Director | Aleksandr Askoldov |
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.
No 5. The Cuckoo – Kukushka
Year | 2002 |
IMDB rating | 7.9/10 |
Awards | 17 wins & 5 nominations |
Director | Aleksandr Rogozhkin |
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police ‘Smersh’, has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.
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